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Tangara, Feb 2, 1958, I

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and apparently unsuccessful - the [[male symbol]] slipping off almost immediately. The soliciting posture as I first saw it was comme ça, more or less:

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Definite Lt (although I am not sure of the exact extent to which the breast was lowered), some fluffing of the lower feathers, but not too awfully much; wing lowered to some extent but not quivered; tail held obliquely upward - and raised 2 or 3 times (a fraction of an inch - but quite definite and conspicuous) in a moderately fast motion; tail feathers possibly spread a little. During one of the eventually similar SP between cop attempts, the bill was held open. It is possible that a sound was uttered then; but, if so, it must have been very soft, as I couldn't hear anything at all.

After several cop attempts, the [[male symbol]] flew away a few feet. The [[female symbol]] then advanced after him, first sidling down a branch toward him, and then flying over to join him on the new branch he had picked out. While she sidled at first, just before flying, she remained in the SP, and began to do a little wing-quivering, very fast but very small in amplitude, while the wings continued to be drooped as before.

The whole incident was ended after a very brief period by both birds flying off and disappearing from my sight.

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There were also a couple of fights - of the usual type, birds tumbling about in the air - between what were possibly