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Tangara, Aug. 10, 1958, I.

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Sitting or standing is apparently unritualized posture, head rather hunched, body & tail more or less horizontal. Wing held out horizontally & down, quivered. Possibly silent.

Tangara, I

August 14, 1958
Ceno Campana

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Watching more Greens around here. Can confirm what I saw before. Always in singles, pairs, or families of pairs & young. Relatively quite silent. CN is a “Trit.” Often just uttered alone, or only two or three in a small series with definite intervals between successive notes. One bird (one of the adults of a family consisting of 2 adults and 1 young) uttered a series of about 6-7 notes once when it flew away from the other members of its family. Comme ça __ __ _ _ _ _ __ middle notes perhaps shorter & harsher than the others.

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During my observations today, I have seen no trace of any association between Greens and any other species - not even Silver throated Tanagers.

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=Silver-throated tanagers = icterocephala
Quite a lot of these birds around also; but apparently only on the top third of the mountain (ie. they are apparently not found as low down as Greens here; although the Greens go as high as they do.)

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The Silver-throat are no more gregarious than the Greens; also going about in pairs or family groups of 3 or 4. But they do seem to be rather more restless than the greens;