Alaska species accounts, part 2, v4404
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Transcription
Evolia bairdi Again I let her lead me. Same Descriptive sequence—except that we went off at a different divelegin. At 100 paces she began to break into normal alert behaviour and at 125 paces she turned away in sustained flight. Same wise and abrupt stoop to the ground at the end. I went back but could not find her. When I squeaked she did not appear. At 1715 I again flushed the incubating 7 back of A.R.L. She got off the nest when I was 15 yds away, I walked to the nest first; as long as I did not try to follow her, she did not go into sneak-distraction but fluttered about within 6 ft uttering the oyit-oyit cry. Then I started following. She flew off a short distance uttering oyits and an occasional police-whistle but did not go into the sneak type distraction until after 25 paces. Then she led me with alternate sneak-squeaks and flights with oyits and whistles. At 100 paces she quite sneaking but continued short flights and oyits for another 25 paces, at which time she flew back low over the ground to area of nest.