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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