JPMyers 1975 Tryngites subruficollis IBP site #2, 4km S of NARL by road, Barrow, Alaska 6 June 1545 - FAP sighted solitary buffy feeding in exposed patches of dead vegetation. First sighted in vicinity of Calypso morning in classic buffy fashion. Light undertail coverts good, grey hue to black patches. Saw short 'helicopter' type flight from one patch to adjacent - FAP says, it is a typical but not fully expressed form of flight during territorial display. Certainly similar to flight of buffies in Argentina - fluttering wings, not quite forward motion, loop dangling. The bird is staying within a restricted area. None others visible nearby. 10-15 alpinia within 30 m. Gone from top to top of the polygon. 1547 - Cup display! Very brief, facing west away from us. Still no view of others. 1550 - two more cupa plus FAP heard tuck- tuck call during display. I saw some swirling of throat region but heard nothing definite. 1605- we had gone on looking for other buffies; I turned to look back towards the original one, saw it (presumably) flying low in large circle around area where it had been foraging. Landed then + continued to forage. 1625 - again we had abandoned the buffy, but glancing in its direction & saw a 'hop' so pronounced it must have been some sort of display - vertical w 1 m - 1.5 in air then down again. As before no other birds in immediate vicinity, we watched for 25 more minutes during which time it did another cup display "in vacuo". 7 June 1230 am - after walking out from NARL failed to find buffy here. 1015 - again not here. Brittan area, 1 km S of NARL by road, Pt Barrow, Alaska 9 June 1 buffy landed briefly by the road at 1120; it fed for a few moments in grass as Kay was chased by an Acanthis MacLaurye, Wolf Prudhoe, Beaufort Sea Coast, Alaska 4 July Told by USFWS biologist that there were 2 leks here this year, one on a beach ridge and one on the only nearby pingo. They reported that there have been at least a few buffies displaying there every year for the last 5, and that during several of those years birds were actually breeding.