Field notes, v4149
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1956 Caloptera anna Aug 25 Queens Road, Berkeley A undergoing heavy molt of gorget perching within foliage of a broad-leaf tree in garden singing intermittently. Another male present on peach downslope used during breeding season. Occasional chases occur between them. Once one perched on the phone wire crossing the garden, the other arced over it in a pendulum with about 6 feet from end to end (straight line), spreading its tail and giving a z-z-t sound each time it passed the perching bird. Oct 14 Only one A present, the one in the garden; it uses the downslope peach furry warmer parts of the day. 1957 Feb.3 Male witnessed in a sequence of 4 dives followed by incuding display in which four circles were completed. The bird at the center was an male, evidently a first- year individual, as the gorget was clearly in the last stages of molt, about 1/3 of it just behind the bill being in pen feathers. This but tucked within the twigging of a pyracantha shrub, rendering