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Mixed Diglossini, Aug. 15, 1967, VIII      (17)

[[margin]] Nocti [[/margin]]

NOTE:  The scrub here is open enough so that I would rather expect to find some form of carbonaria here. But it should be noted that this scrub abuts on more extensive USTF than the area in which Nocti was seen and heard this morning. Also abuts on artificial pasture-like grassland (for pine plantation), very different from low (fern, etc) vegetation in Nocti area. (The latter may not be completely natural, but it is at least more nearly natural than this pasture.)

[[margin]] Albi Nocti [[/margin]]

It certainly would appear that Albi has a greater range of "ecological tolerance" than Nocti in this region.

4:00 pm.  Albi has not re-appeared. Presumably driven away by the Scan attacks?

[[margin]] Scan [[/margin]]

Lots more Scan Song. All NODWAH. Stops

[[margin]] Albi [[/margin]]

Well! Well! Well! Scans silent now. Apparently gone for the moment. So I move a few yards along scrub. See single ♂ Albi moving around 6-10 ft up. Silent. And only 6 ft away, perched quietly, is a small hummingbird. Looks like XX, but has a dark (iridescent violet???) throat patch. Is this the adult ♂ of XX? (In any case, I shall call it XXI) The 2 birds apparently ignore one another. ♂ Albi eventually flies off. Then the XXI does too, in a different direction.

Rain starting 4:08 pm. But lasts only a few minutes then sun comes out. Everything dead quiet.

[[margin]] Albi [[/margin]]
 
Then fog starts to come in again. And immediately I hear a couple of Albi type (Song type) R's. NODWAH

4:26  Whitestart CXXVII sings in distance. NODWAH. But completely overlapping wren Song. Whitestart shuts up.