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Tangara, I

June 13, 1958,
London Zoo


[[red shape cross-hatched]] = miscellaneous.

A pair of Superb Tanagers, Sartuosa, (male and female?) in a small cage by themselves. 

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When presented with a mirror, one of the birds began to hop around the cage, very excitedly, with WF's, TF's, and CN's (sometimes single, sometimes in series of 2 or 3 or 4, but never any R), just like the local species of Tangara on BCI.
 
A single Festive Tanager cyanocephala, also present in a small cage by itself.
 
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Did WF's, TF's, and CN's, much the same as those of the Superbs (although apparently lower intensity) when I approached its cage.

Tangara, I

August 2, 1958
Barro Colorado

I now have quite a lot of these birds in captivity.  Three apparently adult Plains: lavender left, yellow right, and silver left.  Three Golden-masks. Two definitely birds of the year, just molting into adult plumage. Banded green right and lavender right. The other is either a juvenal  which has just completed the molt into adult plumage or a very dull adult female Banded red left.

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All these birds have been put into the big aviary, with

Transcription Notes:
re: [[Jestive]]: ? cyanocephala seems to be the "blue-capped tanager", but cannot find further reference the name in text.