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T. Code
1958
Logopus mutica
3 August Okpilak River
Near the mouth of Contact Creek sit
the edge between high willow brush
and dwarf shrub-beach complex of the
alluvial fan, a 4 and over half grown
juvenile were flushed. The female
was collected, but the juvenile flew
into a wet area of high grasses and
willows and could not be found.
A few minutes later two cocks
were flushed along the edge of Contact
Creek. One was shot, all were in full
summer plumage.
Sable coup that in his mapping effort
in the high country between Okpilak
and the Kula Kula River he has seen
only two or three ptarmigan all
summer, and Ralph Bennett has
seen one.
August , Jugo Lake at 1545 I flushed two adult
♂♂ on the rocky slopes above
camp near the little lake. One was
shot as specimen. At 2230 another adult
was flushed on the mossyains immediately
west of Jugo Lake and another was heard
in the area.
August Jugo Lake- an adult ♂ was shot
along the willow lined stream 2½ mi