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Southern Peru

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Mixed Diglossini, I
February 22, 1964
Nr Cuzco

SEE TODAY'S NOTES ON GENERAL MIXED FLOCKS

February 23, 1964
Nr Cuzco

Going to work same place this morning as yesterday morning. 
Arrive bare road 5:47. Already light. Clear.

Lots of Dawn chorus. Mostly Andean Sparrows.

[[margin]] CC [[/margin]] 5:50 am. Come across 2 or (more probably) 3 CC's flitting very rapidly thru hedge by farm. With long Twitters. Sometimes Twitters so rapid that their form is indecipherable. At other times definitely "Tuk[[underlined]]
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tuk
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[[/underlined]]....." Is this hostile encounter Tuk  [[underlined]] a [[/underlined]]
tuk
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[/underlined]]....." presumably eventually the same as "Zeewa zeewa zeewa....." series heard before.

[[margin]] CC [[/margin]] Further on, catch brief glimpse another CC in hedge.

5:57 [[underlined]] bonariensis [[/underlined]] uttering TW's same place as yesterday. Partial overlap with some diglossine Twitter in distance. CC? Then [[underlined]] bonariensis [[/underlined]] shuts up. Then diglossine shuts up. A few minutes later, [[underlined]] bonariensis [[/underlined]] utters 1 more TW phrase. Then silence.

6:15. Come to area of tubular red flowers. As usual, no sign of diglossus.

See a single Orange bill alone.

Then see group 3 [[underlined]] bonariensis [[/underlined]] alone, [[underlined]] 2 [[/underlined]] Bright, 1 dull.  

[[margin]] GC [[/margin]] 6:30 am. 9750 ft. Area of drier scrub, edge of ravine. [[underlined]] See 2 GC's. [[/underlined]]