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KDixon
1957
Parrus atricenisstabus
13.
Feb 28. Santelena Wildlife Refuge,
further scolding notes, At 10:47 one bird in brush W
apple box, another in whitebark tree to E. (Time out for photos)
11:00-pair in trees at N end of coral & E of road.
They worked over the lichen on several ebony & one soft
bark tree SE of house. At 11:20 each bird dropped into
bucket of grain beside duck cage to pick up a grain
wheat or cut corn and carry it up to a limb to eat it.
I strolled out again at 11:55 and found one titmouse
in ebony tree on west side of house at bend. As I rounded
S end of house, it flew up from corn bucket. Then first
flew over house to join second. At 12:10 they were in
couple of large ebonies due E of house.
No further observations until 2:55 when pair of titmice
flew into ebonics NW front porch from trees W. They foraged
there for a while, giving sit notes
Tsee tsee see si dit followed by a scold from same
trees at 3:17
I saw one titmouse in dense brush along the
Rio Grande at 5:00 pm - bird calling sit sit
continually. Mate may have been in area.
At 5:25 scalds see set set loud from ebony tree
at SE corner of house. I saw 2 titmice in tree over-
hanging duck pens. Scolding continued and seemed to
be directed toward green jays at least two of which also
were present. The high thin see see identical to "fear
note" of P. inornatus was given when a jay took flight
from a limb higher in the tree and also when a Cara-
cara flew overhead. Within a few minutes I