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Holmes,R.
1963
C. bairdii
5.
14 June Barrow, Alaska
On head for beech ridge - 2 displays
L churring - goslerie ridge.
At least 2 displays - beech ridge
in afternoon.
12 June At least 3 pair wet / APCS Su census
sheet. Frequent / churring note -
13 notes in 15 sec.
15 June Many displays - songs heard along goslerie
ridge. (at least 3 birds).
16 June Good activity along north beech ridge -
One pair collected - $ had enlarged area -
but brood patches were well developed
She was molting - body feathers - a
all major feather tufts. - looked as if
she may have lost an earlier clutch -
lost it some weeks - then started to
molt. - Perhaps encountered her
mate (since $ did not have a
developed brood patch - in this case
probably his first June).
Two other males collected - both $pc
Churring note (Mr. Baird Sap is
best described as a nasal t-enphatized
pronounced prit (Dacte is emphatic)
On head on ground - raised one wing
To Mr. vertical - as he found an oncom
anovel intruder - Mrs. Brevin was flushed