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E. M. Brock
1958
Longspur
3
June 30 Atkasuk, Mead River Coal Mine, Alaska
mean turnet two was peeping,
waiting to be fed. Another juvenile
fledgling found dead on the beach,
apparently starved.
Aug 6 Jim Myers has given me a report
told to him by Helmricks [illegible] adopted
son? Jim Helmricks. The boy states
that he shot a female(?) Longspur
on the west side of the graveyard
at Barrow Village on June 1,
1958. The bird was banded and
the band was saved by the boy. There-
fore the following number is correct as
read by Mr. Myers: 54-01522