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Maclean
1968
Journal
(17 June)
Pectorals are settled along suitable
habitar, but not in any great densities. Pdrolling territories are covering very large areas.
Phaloropes appear to be getting down to business.
Still much bairdii display, but the longspurs
and redbacks have already quieted down.
Spend the evening at the second nala katak.
Again, a warm rain fell for a fair part of the
evening.
18 June
Barrow, Alaska
Foggy, again. The morning counting
berlise returns and sorting already extracted
samples to test efficiency. Again, it was 100%.
After finishing this Pete and I went out to
the area in lamo from the navy communications
van. Semi-pale there in active display, as if
newly arrived. Saw no bairdii and found no
puzillie nests - just 1 four-egg Arenaria
nest. Went in about '14 mile and took 800
samples - 8 from a sat. flat and 8 from
a low polygon trough system. These were
from areas just exposed by melt, so that all 4
series of samples taken to date represent a melt-
off sample.
Spend the evening hand-sorting the
samples just removed from the funnels. The
extraction efficiency was very poor. One of the
samples was quite dry, yet yielded 3