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- [Typewritten copy of journal of Allan C. Brooks]
Baird's only, also another bird that was
probably a wandering tattler.
23. To Yakoun Pt. [Point] Very few birds, no rock
limincolae, only a few cormorants. Took a first-
plumaged Fox Sparrow and Jay.
24. Looked over 350 sandpipers, Western sand-
pipers, most common with a few young, about
15%; Sanderlings next, all adults mostly males,
still red, Semipalmated Plover 80% adults,
a few adult Least Sandpiper.
25. To Tow Hill and behind in the bogs. No
falcons. Sandhill cranes have half-grown young.
26. First Peale's Falcon, a young female, very
black.
27. Two wandering tattlers, shot one, an adult
in summer dress, unfaded.
29. To Rose Spit, quantities of shore birds,
sanderlings, all adult; western sandpipers and
Ring plover, 1 black-bellied plover, male adult,
1 semipalmated sandpiper adult seen.
1st [first] Bonaparte gull juv. [juvenile], 1st [first] herring gulls,
immagure and 1 long-tailed (?) Jaeger ad. [adult] a
beautiful white-breasted bird. No loons on
Fraser Lake only Mallards. 1 Flicker.
31. Month closed warm, with showers. Birds
scarce and silent; no good shore birds and all
are very wild; very few hawk, have only seen 2
falcons, 3 sharpshins and 1 Redtail (Buteo)
the last yesterday. Shot a Curlew sandpiper
male adult in evening picking him out of a flock
of sanderlings etc [etcetera].
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