Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
Page 379
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Cade 1958 Motacilla flava 25-24 June Coal Mine- Meade River- How 6 seen in the immediate vicinity of the ARL warnigan. Brock shot one for a specimen. More seen anywhere else in the environs we have traversed. 28 June 30 June One or two still around the ARL warnigan. I found a nest today about 1 mile below the willoge on the left limit of the river. 4 eggs, greyish with a light suffusion of brownish. The 7 flushed off weight under my foot and then kept circling around over the sea 25-30 ft above me and chitting. Finally she was joined by mate. The nest was situated on the side of a ditch ca 3 ft depth in a depression under a mound of moss and was partially covered over by a spray of Carex spp. The outer shell of the nest was made of ridge and gross (dried) stems and the inside was lined with Caribbean leaves. The position of the nest was on top of a high sandy bluff about 15 yds away from the brink in tummock-bath-dwarf shrub complex. Parent birds were much excited by our presence, I was again on nest when we returned an hour or so later.