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[[underlined]] Coereba, [/underlined]] Mar. 2, 1960, III.

with pure distress Peeping developed independently some time before they became associated with the Peeping.

A may still be doing a little C, but it is now at least very faint and irregular.  Difficult to distinguish from miscellaneous background noise.

I didn't see any trace of V or SS today (not even when I peeked into the nest before removing A.)


[[underlined]] Coereba, [/underlined]] I
March 5, 1960
Barro Colorado

Took A out of the nest again around 8:30 a.m.  Tested and recorded it.  It is much better developed now.  Eyes open.  Yellow feathers out of sheathes underneath.

Surprisingly enough, however, its behavior ([[underlined]] i.e. [/underlined]] its social signals) seem to have remained essentially the same as before.

It still does a lot of SG when moderately distressed by handling.  It also still utters a lot of "pure distress" Peeping when handled.  Some of the "pure distress" Peeping today was accompanied by opening & closing of the bill (as on Mar. 2);  but most of it was uttered with the bill absolutely closed throughout (as before Mar. 2).  This is rather remarkable!  I am beginning to think that the causal difference between SG & Peeping is not purely intensity.  A uttered quite a lot of "pure distress" Peeping today as it appeared to relax in my hand after being handled rather roughly.  It is possible, therefore, that the SG contains a relatively stronger escape component than the "pure distress" Peeping;  or that the SG contains [[underlined]] both [/underlined]] escape and attack components which are absent in Peeping.  (The latter alternative may be supported by the fact that it is always Peeping and never SG which is used 

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