Field notes, v1379
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R.E. Johnson 1968 May 30 Anchutka Island, Alaska (cont.) to retain unhatched eggs. It is not clear how the eggs reached the floor - accident or intentional by parent. A dead spay finch was found in a paint can in a barn and another was found on a shelf in a quonset hut. Another such bird had been noted in the notes of May 29. No nests have been noted on metal shelves though many quonset huts have them. Perhaps these are avoided? - due to their greater conductivity as a nest substate? The data on nest location with regard to type of building in areas A+B north of Old Camp (see map under May 28) are tabulated on the next page. As with data for the area SW of South Hanger (see table under May 27), the quonset huts percentage wise are used less frequently than are other buildings (Frame structures). However the quonset huts (88.2%) comprised a much higher percent of the total # of buildings in areas A+B than they did in the South Hanger area (55.4%). Therefore the majority of nests were in quonset huts of necessity. The percent of quonsets with new nests + with new/old nests is lower in A+B than it was in the South Hanger area, but the same percentages for frame buildings is nearly the same in both areas. When however the percentages are figured on the basis