Alaska Species Accounts, Part. 1, v4424
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Calidris manu 28 June Weade River Cool Mine, 157°25' W, 70°24' N, Alaska A 8 singing S and W of the census plot, once in association with a Semipalmated plover, from a nest on the census plot. 29 June Two singing 8's and a 9 were noted along village creek just above Leo (2) lake. None were seen on the ridge SW of Lake Agassiz. 30 June A 8 feeding on mosquitoes on the Cunnicular Cetraria, SSW of the N bank by the census plot, with Semipalmated plovers, q.v. No clearing seen between the two species. 4 July A 8 near the Black-belly plover nest, with Semipalms and a 9 out in Lake Agassiz with a group of 4 Semipalms on a sphagnum dyke. Both gave alarm calls when approached, but no song now. 8 July A 8 cause in giving alarm calls with a group of Semipalmated plovers, and a Turnstone overlooking us near the [illegible] + North Lake west of the census plot. They soon flew off and I was unable to find them again. Evidently they did not off the our plot. 11 July Found a bird with 3 chicks when it gave alarm calls from the South ridge in the zone where the Eriophorum flat was going to Carry wood, though well up in the Eriophorus. Only one adult was noted, which I think (und am not certain) was its 8 (a ruddy long- billed one, if so). When it started to rain the bird