Field notes: Alaska, v4401
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I.M. Brock 2 1958 Longspur June 20 Barrow, Alaska Tests of song typed longspur = 10 x 7 Another = 9 x 6. Third = 9 x 6. Also catched a female with the largest follicle = 2mm & caught in afternoon T = 12 x 7 f " " " largest fol = 2mm June 21 A longspur nest with three eggs found near transect I. June 22. A special point was made of checking the nest while running the trapline today. No bird was flushed, as it was yesterday, and two longspurs were in the vicinity. The eggs were gone from the nest and the nest was slightly disturbed. On the nest and next to the nest were fox droppings which were fresh. Two stakes further along the transect was a snap trap with a freshly eaten bird (probably Longspur) June 25 Atkasuk Mead River Coal Mine, Alaska Longspurs are abundant here at Mead River and seem to still be going through courtship behavior. June 27 A fledgling longspur was seen hopping about the ground out in front of the warden June 30 On a walk north (downstream) I saw two juvenile longspurs which were already flying. Another was young bird found