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T. Code
1959
Logopus lagopus
19 June Unniat - nest with 10 egg on s
facing slope east of Red bill and below
T3. On mounded tussock heath
ground with sparse stand of alders
up to 3 feet high. Located in a depression
under an alder brush 18" high - one
egg cracked by weasel - emb bros
well-developed eye (lews), limbs present
as lews - 25 mm long.
Mike Daniels reported finding
a nest with 11 eggs a couple of days
ago in a bushy area between,
camp and the Colville R. No others
have been seen.
22 June Unniat- eggs gone at the site reputedly
above - no sign of shells or of ptar-
does not seem likely that they could
have hatched to down-predation? fat
4 June Unniat- Killek- Perryapa Lakes - on
air scan up Colville valley, Killek
valley across drainages of upper
Oolamwagwich to Perryapa Lakes and
return-not one single ptarmigan was
seen.
26 June Unniat - adult 9 flushed off wood to
old Unniat - near T8 in the alder
zone of the lower terrace. May have
had a brood.