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[[underlined]] Conirostrum, [[/underlined]] May 22, 1961, II.

drooped.  Tail occasionally slightly cocked.  Head usually looking rather rounded (CR?).  Sometimes, but by no means always, a slight trace of belly-fluffing.

One of the postures assumed by the birds when they were most excited was comme ça:
[[image: drawing of bird]] Alert or alarm Posture (probably just pre-flight) with CR and belly-fluffing.
Wings slightly drooped.
Tail fanned (it was only rarely cocked to this extent)

This was bout the most extreme posture adopted.  But the birds always looked large-headed, small-bodied, and long-tailed, as long as they remained near me.

The birds usually or always remained in the same postures, and continued to perform the same movements, both when they were silent and when they were uttering CN's.

All this pivoting and bowing (& CR & belly-fluffing) was really quite remarkably reminiscent of some bush-finches.

During this incident, I had many opportunities to watch the flicking movements of the species.  TF's [[underlined]] extremely [[/underlined]] lateral.  Little or no vertical component.  When there was a vertical component, it was usually or always D-V.  WF's much less extreme.  Ordinary.  Usually synchronized with TF's.  (One I saw a bird perched in