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Transcription
Marshall (1942)
Vireo olivaceus flavoviridis
Chilata The most abundant,
noisiest, most conspicuous
birds at Chilata rep.
around plantations is growth
along streams woodland
and everywhere where green
veget trees medium-sized
or small occurred.
Everywhere but along rocky
gorge and in hot open
fields. A great variety
of notes songs, scoldings
and chattering - sounded
much like English-Sparrows.
All calls very loud.
Always much fighting. Generally
2 or 3 birds in same sm.
tree foraging lazily and calling
fighting and squawling very
noisily. Stay in green foliage where blend
At time of writing (June 1944)
having become familiar with the
quiet, receding olivaceus I can
see gt. diff. in notes & behavior.
Song and notes louder and more
varied in flavoviridis.