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[[underlined]] Diglossa, [[/underlined]] I.
October 9, 1960
Cerro Punta

Watching the same [[male symbol]] as yesterday.  He sang for more or less lengthy periods, off and on, all morning (up to 10:30 a.m.).  Song phrases essential the same as yesterday.  Always from a more or less elevated perch (one from the top of a tree, at least 50 feet from the ground – but usually much lower).  No response by any [[female symbol]].  In other words, the singing of this species is essentially the same as that of [[underlined]] aterrima [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] lafresnayei. [[/underlined]]


[[underlined]] Diglossa, [[/underlined]] I.
May 21, 1961
Cerro Pichincha

Yesterday, both morning and afternoon, I worked near Nona, and this morning I worked along the path above Nona.  [[underlined]] Aterrimas [[/underlined]] are still very common all over the place;  but by no means as conspicuous as last year.  One or two [[male symbol]]'s sing almost as frequently as they did in May last year;  but the others are relatively silent.  It is my impression that they have [[underlined]] not yet [[/underlined]] begun to show much in the way of breeding behavior!

I have been impressed, again, by how extremely skulking the birds of this species are.  Singing males are almost the only birds that expose themselves for more than a very few seconds.  [[female symbol]]'s usually stay way down and inside very thick shrubbery.  (But I have seen [[female symbol]]'s more frequently this year than during my observations last year.  I.E. the [[female symbol]]'s are not incubating yet.)  Non-singing [[male symbol]]'s seem to come to the to of shrubbery more frequently than do [[female symbol]]'s;  but 

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Have requested advice from Smithsonian on how it wants Moynihan's colour & pattern coding transcribed.