Alaska field notes, v4436
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JP Myers 1976 Eudromias movinellus Gasline Ridge, Barrow, Alaska '12 June running transect 6 at 1045 saw 3 plowers - a golden + two slightly smaller birds rising to tower over the wind of gasline. I did not get a good look, but detected a sharp boundary between breast (dark) and belly. Also the torpedoish quality of the flight - flash Dottrel. But even though I chased them to gas-line ridge, a zoom from original position, I lost them. Then at 1245 within 70 m of stake 10, tran 8, I found them, a pair of Eudromias. Following description taken from notes scribbled in the field: larger bird - dark crown, almost black all the way to bill, outlined by a pronounced superciliary white stripe which circles around the back of the head, meeting in a V on the back. Gives the bird, when seen from the rear, a dottrel-ish profile [illegible] dark, white throat. upper breast brown-grey defined by a dark line through the center of the breast juxtaposed with a white line below it [illegible] dark [illegible] white [illegible] various sides of breast with dark belly. [illegible] black grey brown back with darker streaking particularly on wings when wings folded. much to a quality like Orcopelos. below the dark upper belly is a sharp break w/ white (below) to the vent. yellow legs, black bill. smaller bird - same except that forehead is streaked greyish instead of a solid black. The birds were foraging as do typical plowers -