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Mixed Diglossini, Aug. 10, 1965, III  (65)

Then complications set in!!! And how! In order to make them clear, I had better draw a diagrammatic map.

[[image - map showing a pasture with forest on two opposing sides and scrub on another side over a ridge]]
Pasture
Upper subtropical forest
top of ridge & path
[[pink]] = Passiflora vines
[[blue]] = "Mature-looking" scrub
[[yellow with green lines]] = Obviously second growth.

The area here includes a more or less knife-edge ridge, with different types of vegetation on either side. On one side is "mature-looking" scrub. Very dense but not very high. This comes right up to the crest of the ridge. Right at its border, at the crest of the ridge, are the Passiflora flowers which the White-throated Hummingbird visited ca. 9:12 am. On the other side of the ridge are two large patches of "upper subtropical type" forest. Lots of tall trees, 30-40 ft high. Between these 2 patches is pasture. Mostly grass. A few dead or dying tall trees scattered in middle of pasture. Also a strip of obviously young, rather sparse, very low, second-growth between the main, grassy, part of the pasture and one of the patches of "upper sub-tropical" forest.