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Mixed Diglossini, Oct. 30, 1962, II  

lots of typical Atlapetes. "Zeeeeeee zeeeeeee ....." Notes in the same area now. And the [[underlined]] "carbonaria" [[/underined]] songs have quite stopped.

[[margin]] Bari [[/margin]] No! I finally see a bird uttering [[underlined]] "carbonaria" [[/underlined]] songs. [[underlined]] It is a Bari. [[/underlined]] Sitting moderately exposed. About 5 ft. above ground. With plumage very fluffed, especially underparts; preening madly between song phrases.
 
6:15 am. I now see that [[underlined]] one of the birds uttering Albi-type songs is a Yellow-faced Grassquit [[/underlined]]!! So I cannot really on my records of "Albi"s here which were heard and not seen.

[[margin]] Bari Albi [[/margin]] The Baris here are in low, thick, moderately dry looking scrub. Quite like the scrub in which the Albi was seen yesterday, but not exactly in same place. Not covered by trees.

[[margin]] Bari [[/margin]] The fact that all the Bari songs here have a prominent R components may be correlated with the fact that there are so many other "R-singing" birds in the same environment.

[[margin]] Albi [[/margin]] There are certainly 2 types of R's being uttered here  One higher pitched than the other.  The former [[underlined]] may [[/underlined]] be by real Albis.

Baris have shut up again 6:25 am.

(In connection with "R-singing" birds, I might add that there are also Andean Sparrows here.)

[[margin]] Albi [[/margin]]  6:30 am. See what is almost certainly a [[female symbol]] or juv. Albi fly out of a bush in which a Grassquit sang a few minutes earlier.

There are certainly no red or pink tubular flowers around here for the local diglossines to feed on.

[[margin]] Cy? Albi [[/margin]]  (I might also add that yesterday afternoon, ca. 2:30 pm., I caught a brief glimpse of what was almost certainly a Cy in the same area where I saw, or thought I saw, a [[male symbol]] Albi.)