P. De Benedictis 1465 Calidrisfuscicollis 24 July Barron, Alaska - the distinctive high call noted attracted my attention to 3 birds that were feeding inactively on a mossy ride along the edge of a low centered polygon - they later flew to a rather muddy bottomed (no grass) pool and feed there inserting only part of the bill into the substrate. Like the dunlin they appear to begin molt on the breeding ground, but in this case body molt as they were a mixture of reddish summer feathers (cap, scapulars) and gray winter feathers (secondary coverts, back). The bill still reddish at the base and no evidence of wing call. The 3 stayed close together at all times and were rather shy. 25 July Two in rather dull plumage in a low, polygonized area between I know, h and Foot print lake. 30 July Located a ♀ with 3 chicks in a grassy flat south of Wollschlag Slough. They were in a dryer part of a grassy, pretty area when found. The ♀ when alarmed at a distance got up into the air and circled over a road area, landing on conspicuous sites about 50 feet from the chicks. She was silent or uttered a high, weasey "whow" call like a platero call, when we got closer. She often gave a series of similar notes, the pattern invariably, ———, and she landed within 10 feet of us when chicks were hatched. The chicks did not freeze; when caught & released the ♀ came to them, then away as if to lure cuscus away. The chicks had renige capsules.