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Mixed Diglossini, May 9, 1965 V.  (8)

white flowers in small tree 15 ft up

^[[Cy 120]] Then see single adult Cy ^[[checkmark]] alone. Top tree 25 ft up. 

^[[Ater 121]] Then see single black ^[[checkmark]] Diglossa alone  Ater? In thick low scrub.    

^[[122 CC Cy Laf]] Good god! 9:02 10,225 ft. 3090 m. Region fairly dense scrub.
[[underlined]] See single CC. [[/underlined]] (Buffy breast). Feeding clusters whitish flowers top tree 25 ft up. Then passes [[underlined]] thru [[/underlined]] scrub where Laf - presumed Ater dispute occurred earlier this morning. Also passes very close to where Cy seen earlier. This bird definitely alone.
    
^[[CC?]] A few minutes later, hear some Song phrases which [[underlined]] might [[/underlined]] conceivably be uttered by this bird Twittering "Tuh-uh-sreeeee-uh-yuh". Sometimes repeated once to form doublet. Unfortunately bird not visible. But it certainly sang, several times, from a tree in which an adult Cy was seen earlier this morning. No other diglossine or Whitestart while the CC was visible  There was a single Whitestart, alone, about 30 ft away while the Song phrases by the unseen bird were being uttered. But it didn't seem to pay any attention to them.

^[[Ater 123 Gen Cy Cinn Ater Cinn]] 9:20. About 30 yds away. See single [[underlined]] Ater ^[[checkmark]] [[/underlined]] (definite). Low thick scrub. Feeding on cup-shaped dark red flowers. [[underlined]] Same species [[/underlined]] which the hummingbirds favor here, and the Cys favored in Eastern Cordillera. Feeding usual Diglossa style by cutting into bases corollas. Quite silent and alone. Then a Cinnamon appears. Perches about 2 ft from Ater. Ater flies a couple of feet further away ([[underlined]] down [[/underlined]] into bush). Cinnamon flies away. Ater comes back to feed as before. Cinnamon flies in again. This time does semi-swoop. Ater flies away a few feet. Cinnamon flies away  Ater comes back, again, to feed as before. Eventually moves off and disappears from view.

This is not far from where dispute seen earlier this morning. So

   

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Text written in red included with text placing added to the closest line and marked with [red ink] [/red ink]. Moved "-all" to previous page per hyphenation rule