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Transcription
Evolia bairdi
Again I let her lead me. Same
Descriptive sequence—except that we
went off at a different divelegin. At
100 paces she began to break into
normal alert behaviour and at 125 paces
she turned away in sustained flight.
Same wise and abrupt stoop to the
ground at the end. I went back but
could not find her. When I squeaked
she did not appear.
At 1715 I again flushed the incubating 7
back of A.R.L. She got off the nest when I
was 15 yds away, I walked to the nest
first; as long as I did not try to follow
her, she did not go into sneak-distraction
but fluttered about within 6 ft uttering the
oyit-oyit cry. Then I started following.
She flew off a short distance uttering
oyits and an occasional police-whistle
but did not go into the sneak type
distraction until after 25 paces. Then
she led me with alternate sneak-squeaks
and flights with oyits and whistles. At
100 paces she quite sneaking but continued
short flights and oyits for another 25
paces, at which time she flew back
low over the ground to area of nest.