Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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1. Code 1959 Acanthis houmanni 12 June court #3 - 6 young 3½ feet up in 4ft willow, spewy with down curl. Nest lined with ptarmigan feathers and cotton sedge tufts. #4 - 6 eggs (fresh), 1 foot up in willow 1 ft high, lined with ptarmigan feathers and cotton sedge tufts. 14 June Peters - Schwedel L. - Nests as follows #1, 5 eggs (sub = 20 mm - full form) - on ground under 10" high willow on flood plain of Carnivene, lined with ptarmigan feathers & cotton sedge tufts. Seen spawning, all the eggs up Carnivene to James Robert Lake. 19 June Unniat - Nest - 4 eggs, 2 ft up on dead willow snag, with green everston up 10 ft, lined with ptarmigan feathers on right limit bank of Lower Sea Bee Creek. Nest on T3 at stake 5.0 - on the ground - on a mound at base of willow 18" high - 5 eggs - lined with ptarmigan feathers and cotton sedge tufts. 21 June Unniat - Nest in void from cump to airstrip - 6 eggs, 2"2 ft up in alder with crown of left - lined with ptarmigan feathers, cavibour hair & cotton tufts.