Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Holmes,R.
1960
4.
Eroliā alpina
3 june Barrow, Alaska
which bird landed near them. The chase
looked for about 48 yards, at which
from the pair landed there feeding
again, while the intruder flew off.
During the next several minutes, they flew
quietly with occasional interruptions by
the (?) who he gave the aerial
hills. This was done several times
while he was at a ground tour usually
when he was crossing a mound
or patch of snow from 1 feeding
locality to another. One bird, believed
to be ?, was collected; the other flew
off two not heard a sun during a
next 10 minutes.
In the late afternoon in the same area,
two birds (pr.? ) were seen feeding, a third
bird which had just finished displaying (the pr
had paid no attention to this display) flew up
landed about 8 feet away. At the walker
rapidly toward the birds, who at about 3 feet
away, all three took flight. The chase
lasted about 2 minutes, and while the birds they
were wheeling back forth over the tundra
over Eroliā alpina. When the ? quit, the pr.
flown southward. Their manner of flight was
the same as in chase, both birds flew