Alaska Species Accounts, Part. 1, v4424
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Colidés parilles 8 July. Meacle River Coal Mine, 157°25'40"W, 70°29'11"N. Alloch Census plot; where they were mostly on the Eriophorum-covered dyke between Cane pools. 9 July There were two cold eggs in the last remaining Semi-pal nest on the census plot, and an adult Scolding from just outside the plot. A wader in the Cane pool area hear here and 3 in the dry Eriophorum, probably from the 2.5 nest, were the only birds seen; gone from the area by 1.1 mackerel to Phil's transect. 10 July A pair giving clear notes in the dryer Eriophorum-Poa association near the village 11 July The story near where Agassiz remains undamaged except that it's been somewhat cleared. Here birds were towards Phil's transect and here the habitat distinction is not so sharp, though Eriophorum predominated in the area, where I fished wider - dryer (not saturated Sphagnum) soil. Didn't find only chicks Saw only 3 or 4 birds on the Eriophorum flat, and bills feeding. Semi-pals seem to have less mosquito trouble than Phaenigrae and Longspurs, rarely scratch and don't ever seem to get "insect covered". Semi-pals were also noted in the Cane-Eriophorum "ecotone" near the South Ridge and by the Cane pool as well, but not much attention paid to this due to rain and insects; about 10 birds seen here.