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Mixed Diglossini, Apr. 2, 1963, VI. [[circled]] 9 [[/circled]] 


[[margin]] Brun CC [[/margin]] 7:45 I have been trying to determine if there really are 3 Bruns here. Trying to see single bird on opposite side trees when I know pair are in their usual place. Without success! So I think that there are only 2 Bruns here. Which means that they do range on both sides CC area. 

7:46 Moving along path now, to see what other birds I can find.

[[margin]] Brun [[/margin]] 8:00 a.m. Some distance further on come across single Brun sitting in Eucalypt, at least 30 ft above ground. Uttering "Tut" Notes (Each note accompanied by slight V-D TF). Then starts to fly about both in trees & low scrub. May utter one [[wavy underlined]] freeeeee [[/wavy underlined]] in flight.

[[margin]] CC [[/margin]] 8:20 Come across 1 or 2 CC in bushes along edge of maize field. Utter "feeet"s in flight. One also utters brief formless twitter as it lands (I can't tell whether alone or with its mate). 10,700 ft.

8:30 Have reached 11,000 ft without seeing any more diglossines. Whole valley is cultivated. No red flowers of favored species.

[[margin]] CC [[/margin]] 8:45 11,000 ft. See pair CC's in tree (not Eucalypt) on edge village. About 50 ft further on, see single Brun in another tree.

[[margin]] CC [[/margin]] 9:00 am 11,150 ft. See pair of CC's in small tree on edge maize field. Going from perch to perch quite actively. One or both birds definitely utter(s) Greeting when they land together. Soft very rapid formless twitter, [[underlined]] ending in rapid  "zreee zaza" [[/underlined]]!!! 
[[margin]] Brun CC [[/margin]] Then single Brun flies into same tree. Lands only 5 ft away from one CC (possibly nearer)! No overt inter-specific response. Brun just sits. Then 1 case Brun f [right pointing arrow]] CC. Then Brun flies away into bushes 20 ft away. 

[[margin]] Brun? [[/margin]] Just before I saw three birds, I heard several song phrases that sounded like "typical" [[underlined]] carbonaria [[/underlined]] advertising song without R component. But couldn't see individual singing. May well have been Brun.

Transcription Notes:
Replaced "bums", etc. with "Bruns" - Author uses "Brun" as shorthand for Diglossa brunneiventris (black-throated flowerpiercer)