Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 373
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Code 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