Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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1. Code 1959 Limosa lapponica 23 May Pitmegea - single bird seen flying along the view new camp. 4 May Pitmegea - pair evidently in courtship flight seen in the air just upwith from the geyfalen cliff. Sexual dimorphism very clear in this pair - the bright reddish brown bird (? ?) was much smaller than the greyish (? ?) individual. 3 August Colville river below Ocean Pt - a pair of distracting godwits was seen in an area of low brush and upland, drained tundra on a level of the river. Four flying young were flushed in the arks. They were associating with a brood of juvenile ptarmigan. The adult godwits were still quite "distinctive and definitive of the air. Considerable size, color difference noted at Pitmegea held for this pair also. Remains also found at two peregrine areas above Ocean Point.