Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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7. Code 1958 Anas platyrynchus 9 July Unmiat, Alaska Griffin saw a hen with 5 downy about 10 days ago. Shewas on the long pond at the SE corner of the airstrip. Earlier he had seen a pair of mallards in this area several times earlier. 2 July Unmiat - a hen with 4 feathered but flightless young was seen on a pond just south of the main Unmiat camp - along the road going out to the old transmitter shack. 13 July Unmiat - another hen with a brood of dorothy chicks (4), smaller than those seen yesterday, was reported by Rodke and Wilkey, who walked out along the telephone line to the radio station west of the main installation. 14 July Unmiat - a hen was seen in an inundated gravel pit along the SW side of the airstrip.