Alaska eggs and nests notes, v4497
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Melospiza cinerea ? (sulciva?) 9/4 a 23 June 1907. 5 m s.sr of Hooniah, Chicagoff Island, Alaska. Nest was about a foot from the ground, in dead and living grass growing under a true top (fallen), just above high tide line on the beach. Parent flushed from nest, shot at, wounded, but not secured. Incubation commenced. Frank Stephens (10) Passerculus sandwichensis abandinae. 542 b 10/5 n. June 25-1907. Nest found among short grass and weeds a few feet below the summit of a mountain 2600 ft. high, seven or eight miles S.W. of Hoonah, Chicagoff Island, Alaska. The earth was very moist, with snow banks all around. The 7 was flushed from the nest and shot from a stunted hemlock tree nearby. Incubation: perfectly fresh. C. Littljolm (11) Larus glancescens. 44 "1/2 June 28-1907. Nest found, on a small island on the east side of Glacier Bay, Alaska, at an elevation of about 30 ft. and was situated in the grass and moss