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[[circled]] 30 [[/circled]] Tangara, Dec 9. 1958, III I might stress that the R of the golden mark is apparently never given in flight. They were quite silent as usual as when uttering single CN's and series of CN's. I also noticed that they tended to hold their wings so that the blue epaulets were particularly conspicuous even when they were not doing WF. All five birds frequently assumed a stretch pre-flight posture, quite like those of related species. Quite variable, depending upon the portion of the [[sketch]] bird (in relation to where it wants to fly to) and the sort of perch it has. I am now fairly certain that this is not really ritualized. The visitor and at least 2 of the captives (and possibly all of them) did lots & lots of R. Quite like the R described before, and usually given from the posture drawn on Dec 15, 1957, p.6, (although sometimes a bird giving the R sat with head & bill a little more nearly horizontal, and the lower body feathers a little more fluffed). The wings were not always (not usually?) crossed over the rump. There was no WF-ing or TF-ing during R's. These R's sounded just like particularly rapid series of the [[?]] sort of CN's, and they were [[?]] preceded by an increasingly rapid series of CN's, comme ça [[2 long dashes 5 short dashes zigzag]] But there was usually or always a definite morphological gap between what I have been calling "series of CN's" and R., i.e. the onset of the R was marked by a suddenly increased acceleration, and even greater acceleration than during the fastest series of CN's. (I think that these golden-masks today may also have uttered "Kreeee" R's like those described on Aug. 8, p. 16., but I am not quite
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Should the margin color be included as 3 blue vertical lines 1 blue cross-hatched vertical line?