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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