Field notes, v601
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R Dixon 1951 Parnes bicolor 8. Mar 10. 1 mi. E College Station, 370 ft., Brazos Co., Texas At 1:30 I heard song from E of the house. I suspect that this may have been the same bird heard this morning and at 1:00 pm yesterday in the same area. In a conversation with Dr Charles H. Mott, a botanist and local resident, I was told that the Tufted Titmouse travels in small bands in winter -- he mentioned the number 6 and spoke of lack of vocal expression as compared to the Carolina Chickadee. I left the house at 3:45 accompanied by D. J. Delermile. We walked E to the area I had worked in, then continued a couple of hundred yards [illegible] and several hundred yards E through a pasture and thinned out woods. The floor in the latter area appeared to have been burned two seasons ago. At 4:20 we heard a song peter --- , from one bird apparently. By the time we reached the area where song had been heard the song had ceased. Then we heard a call "see dee dih" or "see dee dyih" a seemingly laborious thin call. I watched one individual giving the call; it opened its bill rather widely. Another bird several yards to the east gave the same call alternately with the bird I was watching. The latter seemed to be moving away toward the west (time 4:25 pm.) Area was in the middle of a wooded tract on level ground. I supposed that the calls were given alternately by the members of one pair until I saw a third bird moving in a westerly direction silently as though accompanying [illegible] one of the individuals which was calling. The bird moving W became silent, the other continuing to call until