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Holme, R.T.
1964
Pluvialis dominica
4 June Barrow, Alaska
2 mca ABCS, 2 m Pikelka's Plot - 1 male butterfly
flight display seen.
5 June 2 so.1B11. Horn's area - 1 aerial displ. flight noted.
7 June None on No. B.R.!
8 June 1 in displ. flight on Pikelka's Plot
9 June 1 No.1BR, along old creosol trail, - gave mild distraction
display. (tail depressed - otherwise upright posture) -
no nest found.
10 June 1 in display flight on gash ridge - near No. B.R.
11 June 1 " " " beach ridge - near 10-2.0 m
Pikelka's plot - in flight gave a pe-leep, pe-leep....
15 June Pair in central marsh - near ridge - on one of the
benches. O was giving what apparently was
an exciting display to F - which has
Tail + wing tips tilted vertically (to about 60°) -
head + neck toward ground - but in
straight line with tail - tail - almost
perhaps touches the ground
- The feet slightly spread so
with the folded wing leg
lying along side, they formed
a square - shaped combinator.
- O was always behind F -
It looking at his undertail
sheep - while crest raked
in anal region. ? - third specimen. F very
shifted would hold posture for 50-60 sec. at