JPM Myers 1977 Tryngitita subocticollis GRID 3, NARL, Barrow Alaska 30 May gird unit (B,7) found 4 buffis at 1530. At least 2♂, both large + lustrous buff, displaying frequently in cup display and single wing up How gorgeous! Heard 2 different calls, one the usual low chuck but then another which I'd never heard, and one much more suggestive of the buffi's Calidridiae origin, a raspy almost note almost a cross between alpina and melanoto, about the length of a typical melanoto flight call. Rough and rather nasalish. At 1730 Erickson found 3 T.s. in the same spot (I'd told him about them). N.Slope Borough. Atkasook, Meade River, Alaska 2 June 0900 1 Buffy on a ridge behind camp. 1300 (41,25) a buffy lek w/ at least 5♂ spread over 500 m² of tundra. tremendous displaying activity. Flouncing about, Flopping up and down w/ awkward wing beats. Parabola display, single + double wing raises. But it bothers me that there is so much interaction between ♂ - not just visual. Certainly the display alone will evoke those of another at quite a distance. But they also visit, fly off / come another, and don't seem to be as (localized) as a good territorial lekking spp should be. Some compounds pass. 1630 Coming back from lee river came across more Tryngitita displaying activity, their lek (26,39). At least 10-4 displaying birds, perhaps more. Again a peculiar lack of space- specificity in all activity. Mixture of aggressive antivocalism w/ displays. But not obviously consistent. Habitat much wetter than I expected, with low wet tarey - Salix polycarpa over much of the area. It is quite possible that this area is continuous w/ the one we faced this a.m. - in fact it is almost certainly so. In that case the total area extent includes a lek 750m x 500m. The flop display is a very awkward flouncing up + down in place - flapping wings, jumping, getting ~30-60 cm off the ground. It looks as if they are just trying to make themselves as conspicuous as possible. They often wing-ups in several ways: first just by standing stationary, raising + lowering one wing or simply holding it up (looking from head on). They