Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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Cade 1958 Alopecy logopus 23 June - cont. a square yard of ground. Photo taken. At 1930 Brock and I saw a different individual between T9010 e T122. He was hunting in a polygon area- quarterming back and forth, stopping now and again to investigate something. He covered a lot of ground systematically and quickly. For a while we watched in the weasel from about 100 yds. We saw him stop and eat something. I lined him up with a post on the horizon and drove straight for the spot. He finished eating and moved off unconcerned before we arrived, but a little searching in the area revealed a freshly broken and eaten shoveldril egg, still lying in the scoop. A pair of excited turnstones were flying about us, and since the nest was on a site typical of that used by turnstones, we are sure it was their nest which the fox molested. This fox was nearly all white yet with just lots of few shedding on his right haunch.