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[[underlined]] Diglossa, [[/underlined]] May 20, 1962, II.

accelerated for the species. No other display.

7:00 a.m.  Watching a [[male symbol]] aterrima singing.  Apparently all by himself, that many of his songs have rattled or trill component. Ending "sreeeeeeeya"

In the same area where I thought I saw pre-cop behavior last year, I can occasionally hear soft "Wah wah wah wah ....." notes.  Sound like begging of young last year.  In the same area, there is a [[male symbol]] aterrima who has done a little or no singing this morning, in spite of the fact that he has not been accompanied by a [[female symbol]].  I think you must have young (probably still in the nest, as begging sounds seem to be stationary).

7:45 a.m.  I have now heard a lot of [[male symbol]] Blue-spots singing on their stations (quite apart from obvious hostility).  Most songs composed of distinct notes, with only an occasional "Zee-zee" or "Zree-zree" doublet, you Usually toward the end of a phrase.  (I am using "doublet" to include only notes which are closer together then most of the other notes in a song phrase.)

Thus, my observations of the song of Blue-spots today would seem to confirm my observations of the songs of the species last year.

When I first observed these birds 3 or 4 years ago, I may have been misled into supposing that most of the songs were largely or completely composed of doublets because the birds frequently alternate notes of slightly higher and slightly lower pitch (i.e. "zree"s and "zraa"s).

The doublets I have transcribed as "zee-zee" and "zree-zree" today may be the same as the ones I transcribed as "ti-ti" last year.

One of the [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] aterrimas [[/underlined]] here seems to have a large white spot on its 

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