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Mixed Diglossini, Aug. 4, 1965, XII.  (100)

probably essentially hostile. (NOTE: Laf, Ater, and Cinnamon all seem to bear the [[underlined]] same [[/underlined]] relationship to Cy.)

^[[Cy VB]] Cy x VB. Territories at least adjacent. VB's [[underlined]] probably [[/underlined]] attracted by sight and/or sound of Cys.

^[[Cinn VB]] Cinnamon x VB. Territories at least partly overlapping. Cinnamons frequently aggressive toward VB's.

COMMENTS:

^[[Cinn]] Cinnamon may well be openly aggressive toward all other nectarivorous species that it can attack, or chase, with relative impunity.

^[[Laf Ater Cinn]] Laf, Ater, & Cinnamon all compete with one another for food. Probably competing very strongly now. Probably most individuals of all three species prefer, or depend upon, [[underlined]] Kniphophora [[/underlined]] more than any other food source, [[underlined]] now [[/underlined]].

^[[Ater VB]] Ater and VB also are competing for food (i.e. the small yellow flowers).

^[[Gen Bari Coer]] Some of the apparent absences in this region are [[underlined]] very [[/underlined]] puzzling. Why are there no [[underlined]] baritula [[/underlined]] s.l.??? And why are there no Coers???

^[[Bari Bari Ater]] The absence of [[underlined]] baritula [[/underlined]] s.l. is particularly remarkable. Much of the countryside on this western side of Puracé [[underlined]] looks [[/underlined]] very suitable for it. Open scrub. And lots of suitable flowers. (Remember that the Baris in Bogotá seem to specialize on [[underlined]] Kniphophora [[/underlined]]!!!). It has just occurred to me that I have never seen Bari in the same regions as Ater (i.e. the Central Cordillera of Colombia and Central Ecuador) but that I [[underlined]] have [[/underlined]] seen it [[underlined]] in all other regions where other forms of carbonaria s.l. occur, as well [[/underlined]]

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