Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 355
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P. De Benedetti 1966 Journal 26 June. Neacole River Coal Mine, 15°02'5"W, 70°03'4"N, Hum west still with three eggs and the Whalers. Sparrow still incubating. A slight drizzle in the evening. Rodger Bempard got a ♂ Microtus occotomus from the boys in the village today, a 59 gm. ♂ with testes 846 mm, epiphyllum -. 1 July. In the morning I went to the village dunes to see if the shorebirds were up on the sand & then eating mosquitoes as by the census plot. The weather was overcast and windy, and there was little mosquito action until about 11:30. There was little activity near the village, not surprisingly since there are about 15 people there now. On the disturbed areas near the village many old flowers out, and the dunes were alive with Diapensia, Arenavitz and Potentilla and totally dead. Bird-wise - One golden crane in the cereal area near hutetionakewk. There was a little semipal activity on the village plots, but not much feeding activity; the few birds I saw were out of sight in the willows. One Spectral doing mosquitoes in a Caves pool like a semipal. There were half a dozen old polio in the willows and a pair of Savannah Sparrows carrying food, dipping briskly in our area, but not going to a nest. Flusca at Ptarmigan from a 12-egg nest. Lots of Longspurs but I didn't see any nests. In all, very quiet. Spent the afternoon trying to decide