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MacLean
1967
Journal
[18 August] gred big live Tipula larva - so the
berlese method won't work on medic sod.
No Pedicia, tho.
After lunch went out with Tom to Voth
Area to look at birds while he set tripods
III A-B. More unusually warm weather in
the morning, but it quickly clouded up and
rained quite hard. Many birds - a flock of
ca. 35 alpina near the lines, plowers
scattered about, several groups of
dowitchers and pectorals, and still many
longspurs. Collected 2 alpina, 1 melampoter,
1 P.d., and a series of feeding observations
before the rain really hit. Helped Tom
see out the lines, then came in and
processed the birds.
took a big wooden box to the hut and
began setting up and packing our things in the
evening as the weather improved again,
Barrow, Alaska
[19 August]
More packing in the morning. After an
early lunch started walking inland to
Micro-Miller, then Goshine Ridge, then Village
Ridge, then Brawerville Ridge to
Brawerville. I think I saw more birds today
than any day this year. Many alpina,
plowers, and dowitchers; pectorals were
frequent; a flock of pusilla by a pony in the