Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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1. Coele 1959 Motacilla flava 8 June Peters-Schwader Lakes - one was seen foraging along a stream bank on lower part of Whistler lv and was collected. 19 June Uniat - appears to be present in unusual abundance - at least conspicuous in many quarters from the river well into the uplands. Nest - just back of camp in the highly disturbed area around the brewed out transmitter shack. (eggs in ledge - grass cup at base of a moss- covered or mounded dwarf shrub - heath tundra - tops canopy of Betula and Empetrum - lined with caribou hair and a few ptarmigan feathers - near stands of alder up to 3 feet high. 22 June Uniat - Nest - 6 eggs, on upper throre west of Uniat Lake - on mound - ledge - heath - dwarf bush (up to 18") tundra - depression at base of E. vaginatum turned on side of a mound - canopy of cotton ledge, birch & Sedum & Cranberry - submerged by wet ground & near flooded redge marsh - cap lined with M. oconomag few few ptarmigan feathers - also grass sprays.