M.D.Beedell 1966 11 July Pleade River Coal Mine, 15°02'5"W, 70°22'41"N. Alaska for chicks but didn't find any. The & gave a weak distraction display, a crouch with its wings slightly dropped and lead me toward the lake from S of Lake Agassiz. In this event flushed a & near the nest on the census plot. She was sitting on 70-8 chicks, when I went up to take a photo, they suddenly flushed away off radically away from me → cheeping quickly. The value of this in confusing a predator was clearly evident, for it was used to follow a particular chick. They went off about 30 feet then froze. It took about 10 minutes for us to find one after this. When I picked it up, it "cheeped" and the & came to within 20 feet of me, though mainly it stay 4-6 feet away, crouched and flat, the wings dropped, and hissing and clucking, alternately. Never a sign of a & which are least up enough when they are courting. & have been very quiet since about 3 July, according to the (two) #s seen recently.