P.D. Benedict 1965 Pluvialis dominica 23 June. Barrow, Alaska: seen feeding were in rather wet places, along pools or in very saturated low polygon. They remain hard to approach. 24 June a pair in the Micomet area, and saw one aerial butterfly display. The species was somewhat more numerous in the area along Edison hoggon & Wohlschlag Slough, and saw 3-4 aerial displays. One ? in a glide using a [illegible] following a ? called wee witwit wee 2-3 trips, flopped for a while, went into glide giving the "tuke" butterfly song display, the two covering a wide area. A male on three successive occasions chased a dunlin for 6-15 feet, each time swooping after the dunlin and landing only a few feet from the dunlin. When the pluvier landed it held the wings up longer than usual. The pluvier was silent but the dunlin gave a short low till when being chased. 25 June On the beach Ridge from the Micomet area to P. Eltha's plot only 2-3 pairs were seen but then seen 2-3 times as many out in Central Marsh when they called loudly and fed in very wet areas. Only one flight display seen but the birds were quite vocal on the ground as usual. It is the hidden of the arctic. Birds seen in the afternoon were also demonstrative, 2 flight displays and 5-6 fight displays involving V. gliding of one of a ? pair in flight accompanied by a campy vocalization (its most distinctive being a