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Holmes, R.
1963
59.
E. melanotus
19 July Bunny Alaska
A giro / 40' + 7g river cove b spid
plow west / 1/4th slough.
Swan broods encountered before
Needle glacier ridge - 3 brood 1-3 day
old chick (4 m eve case), + 2 brood
part feather chick - probably
week old.
20 July Four broods encountered in Footprint Lake-
1/3 week-old chicks, 1/7 1 week-old
chick, 1/4 of 2 week-old chicks (all 1m
were ~ 25-35 gram class & had
about half their juvenile plumage). All
were banded. - all were accompanied
by an adult F.
On Skunk Creek plot - the following
birds were checked
N #33,34,30 new gav - m syn 1 adult - at
N #37 - Pre chicks were gone but the few
present + excited
N #35 & 41 had the first egg pipping. N#
36 had 3 young (+ one 1 abnormally small egg.
+ N #26 had 3 young + 1 egg which was
just pipping.
The remainder / we not sure if brood
at least, a 4-wr present; however at
SW. - no F observed.