Alaska field notes, v1299
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Wandering Tattler Unalaska Sandpiper D Sept. 18, 1931 Unalaska, Unalaska Is. Allutions. This species is represented by the above name in the list of species + also by Nos. 2072-2077 + 2107. I don't know what it is so have given it the name of Unalaska Sandpiper. Probably it will turn out to be a Yellow Legs or something else as common. It was first noted on Thustbrink of Creek by Capt. Jones & Lieut. Comin. Brad- bury. They described it well + said it was "noisy." Spec. 2072 was killed by Bill Woomy while we were hunting the stream & it was not noisy. No. 2077 was taken on Pyramid Creek, also by Bill Woomy, and 2107 was taken by me on the creek flowing into the lake just south of town (which I might just as well call Seagull Lagoon because so many seagulls hang around there.) No. 2077 had a very slight teetering action as it stood on a rock in the stream. The other two 2124 & 2136 inhabited a rocky section of the beach about a mile south east of here. They generally