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Mixed Diglossini, May 10, 1965, VI. (15)

NOD. Then bird flies off without my getting a good view of it.

^[[VIII]] 8:53 See single Green VIII Hummingbird visiting clumps tubular red flowers. [[image - sketch of tubular flower]] (Small flowers- not [[underlined]] Passiflora [[/underlined]]) Repeatedly puts bill to [[underlined]] base corolla [[/underlined]]! When I check the flowers, there were no holes in the corollas. But was this bird [[underlined]] looking for Diglossa holes [[/underlined]]??? 

^[[143 Cy]] 9:15. Single Cy ^[[checkmark]] singing exposed 30 ft up isolated tree. Then flies down into low scrub. Sings there. All Songs long rapid formless twitters Some apparently [[underlined]] without [[/underlined]] Intro Notes. Some probably with one "Tsit". But this bird is definitely [[underlined]] alone [[/underlined]]. Could its Songs be reactions to the mixed flock only several hundred yards away??? [[underlined]] Yes [[/underlined]]! 

SEE TODAY'S NOTES ON GENERAL MIXED FLOCKS.

^[[Sitti]] Mixed flock with pair of Sittis passes by. Once, when one Sitti rejoinrf the other, in low bush, one of the birds uttered "Greeting" Twitter. I heard it quite well. Could be transcribed as "Duh-duh duh-dee duh-duh". [[image - series of lines indicating song progression]]

^[[Gen]] It certainly looks as if all [[underlined]] Conirostrum spp. [[/underlined]] may have similar voices and vocal repertories!

^[[Laf]] Hear more Laf Song down hill 10:02. No other diglossine audible at same time. Then Laf shuts up. Whitestart Sings.

^[[Laf Cy 145]] ^[[XXVI N]] 10:12. Good God. Reach area where Cy and Aters seen feeding together earlier. Nothing there now. But [[underlined]] then [[/underlined]], 100 ft away, where single Laf seen earlier, see [[underlined]] single Laf ^[[two checkmarks]] and single Cy ^[[two checkmarks]] feeding in same small bush with dark red cup-shaped flowers [[/underlined]]!!! (Incidentally, this plant may be a melastome. Has melastome-like leaves.) Only a foot or so apart. No obvious attack or escape movements by either bird. [[underlined]] But [[/underlined]] the Laf is uttering

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