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Mixed Diglossini, Mar 10, 1966, III.
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[[margin]] Scan [[/margin]] NOTE: Some of my preceding descriptions may be misleading in one (minor) respect. I have written that I have "heard Scan Higlet Displays" when I heard the sounds usually associated with this display. But apparently the same or very similar sounds can be uttered by perched birds, [[underlined]] without [[/underlined]] flight!

[[margin]] Scan [[/margin]] In any case, it is obvious (I think) that the Scans here are in breeding condition.

Leaving this site 4:16 pm. Rain starting.

[[margin]] CC Scan [[/margin]] Just as I start to leave, I see single CC fly up into a Eucalypt without flowers. Silent. Definitely alone. There is no Scan particularly close by at the time.

[[margin]] Scan [[/margin]] Go on further down to another similar area 8790 ft 4:23 pm. Scans vocalizing madly here too.

(Incidentally, all the Scan vocalization heard so far have been NODWAH.)

[[margin]] Lesbia [[/margin]] See a single [[female symbol]] or juv. [[underlined]] Lesbia [[/underlined]] (presumably [[underlined]] [[nuna?]] [[/underlined]] ) feeding on all sorts of flowers very low in scrub under Eucalypts. Quite silent and definitely alone.

Rain getting worse.

See a small green, short-tailed hummingbird definitely feeding on Eucalyptus flowers. Nothing else around at the time.

Leaving 4:30 pm.

March 11, 1966
Atacaso

Going to work below San Juan. Where mixed flock, with Sittis, was seen yesterday. Arrive 5:53 am. Just starting to