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1958
General Account
July -
cont -
Possibly the red phalarope should come
before the pectoral sandpiper, and
possibly the dunite before the black-
bellied plover - each of these two couples
are close to the same in numbers, ie
red phalaropes and pectorals are both quite
common and black-bellied and dunite
are both uncommon but by no means
rare.
As to poneries, the longspur is most
abundant - the single most abundant species -
the redpoll is probably second, then the
snow bunting - locally of course quite
common about the villog - fourth, the
savannah sparrow, and fifth and
much the rarest, the yellow wagtail.
Of water fowl old squaws seem to be
somewhat commoner than pintails. Old
squaws are paired whereas nearly all
the pintails are hens.
July
Meade River to Barrow, Alaska
Bobby Fischer flew in at 1045 to
pick us up. We finished cleaning up around
the warrigan, gave the remainder of our
perishables to the Eskimos, and departed at
1130, Arrived Barrow at 1215, Flight was
bee-line from Meade to Barrow traveling