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Mixed Diglossini, Apr. 5, 1963, V. [[circled]] 25 [[/circled]]

[[margin]] Pect Brun [[/margin]] Brun, briefly. Chase silent. And this time it is the Brun who gives up, flies away, leaving Pect more or less where it was before. Then Brun sings, stimulating Pect again. Usual overlaps. Then Brun sings repeatedly, alone.

The Bruns here seem to be singing much more, on the average, than the Pect. May be an indication that they are dominant? Or that the Pect is just in process of trying to occupy a new territory?

[[margin]] Pect Brun [[/margin]] Everything quiet — dead silent in fact — 8:51 Then Pect reappears. Patrolling border silently. And Bruns begin to sing immediately. Then Pect goes down hill again. Begins to sing, overlapping Bruns. Bruns fall silent. Then sing again, while Pect continues

[[margin]] Brun [[/margin]] I don't really know if there are 2 or 3 Bruns here. It is obvious, however, that the sound of one Brun singing almost always stimulates another (or the other) to begin singing too — irrespective of whether the Pect is singing at the time or not

[[margin]] Pect Brun [[/margin]] Again Brun stimulates Pect to sing. Usual overlaps. Then, while Pect continues, Brun performs song flight. High. At least 30 ft above scrub

[[margin]] Brun [[/margin]] [[image - drawing of up & down flight pattern]] Accompanied by R (long) — twitter song. R extending over most of up flight. The Brun did this when (as far as I could tell) there was no other Brun around. And the [[underlined]] Pect shut up immediately [[/underlined]]!!!

[[margin]] Pect [[/margin]] Incidentally, all or almost all the Pect songs during the last half hour or so have been, slower, on the average, than the first Pect songs he[[ard]]

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