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Mixed Diglossini, Apr. 6, 1965, II   

[[margin]] Albi Laf [[/margin]]
This are is certainly less than 100 ft below edge of Paramó. Does the fact that Albis come this high here help to explain why Lafs are absent here?

[[margin]] Glor [[/margin]]
The Glor is not visible (or audible) while the Albi is around.

[[margin]] Gen [[/margin]]
There certainly is no doubt but that there are an awful lot of diglossines overlapping in the Sierra de Merida. The species are certainly not as well separated, ecologically (on a macro-geographic, as distinct from microgeograohic, scale) as in all or most other parts of the Andes.

[[margin]] Cy? [[/margin]]
8:45 am. Hear what sounds like Cy songs. In distance. Same area where presumed Cys seen and heard yesterday. Songs are short twitters. Each twitter preceded by two introducing notes. "Tseet tseet" (Not "Tsit"s, not "Seeeeeee"s — nicely intermediate.)

Leave 9:45, without seeing much more.

Working around hotel 4:10 pm.

See a Tanager III poking at base of Erythrina flowers favored by all the diglossines!

[[margin]] BQ [[/margin]]
Can hear BQ's singing, but nothing seems very active.

[[margin]] BQ [[/margin]]
One BQ, perched in sparse hedge, approx. 8 ft above ground, utters Songs at very frequent intervals. Double twitters.

[[diagram: six repeated scribbles? in groups of two]]

Very fast, rattling, and formless. No other diglossine visible or audible at the time.

[[margin]] Gen [[/margin]] 
A BT flies by, 4:27 pm., carrying strand of n.m. in bill. So some species, in addition to the BQ, seem to be breeding now.

4:31. There is a single Yellow Warbler feeding in the Bougainvillea. But definitely looking for insects on leaves & branches. Not investigating flowers at all.