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1150 [[underlined]] Dafila acuta [[/underlined]] 6599  Youkon May 29.  5 eggs supposed [[underlined]] Dafila acuta [[/underlined]].  The Indians who brought them to the fort, and from whom I "pillaged" them, saw the mother, and say that she was of this species.  The eggs appear like my identified ones. K 

1154 [[underlined]] Bernicla canadensis [[/underlined]] 15 eggs. Youkon May 29.  The mothers were killed, but the lots of eggs not being kept separate, I couldn't identify the parents.  All were [[underlined]] B. canadensis [[/underlined]], and in fact no other goose breeds here. This nests on small islands, or the edges of large ones in the [[strikethrough]] Porcupine [[/strikethrough]] Youkon River. From 5 to 7 eggs in a nest. Not found nesting on any of the small lakes, where, however, the ducks are most numerous. K.

1157 [[underlined]] Spizella monticola [[/underlined]] 27521 [[female symbol]].  Youkon May 31.  Nest on ground.  Ovary of [[female symbol]] contained another egg[[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] - [[female symbol]] shot at the nest by an Indian. K

1160 [[underlined]] Zonotrichia gambellii [[/underlined]] 6358. 5 eggs. Youkon May 30.  I saw & fired at the [[female symbol]] but couldn't get her - had a good view however.  Nest on ground at the foot of a willow, among low willows near the river. K

1161 [[underlined]] Zonotrichia gambellii [[/underlined]] 6351. 3 eggs.  Youkon May 30.  Nest on ground.  The [[female symbol]] was snared on nest, but eaten by dogs.  She was seen distinctly by the fort interpreter who knows the species. K

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1166 [[underlined]] Junco hyemalis [[/underlined]] var.? 27519 head & wing of [[female symbol]] & 4 eggs.  The nest of [[female symbol]] was shot away. Nest on ground.  [[female symbol]] shot as she left the nest.  Youkon June 1. K 

1169 [[underlined]] Pediocetes phasianellus [[/underlined]] 31622 [[female symbol]] & 9 eggs.  Youkon June 3.  Nest at the foot of a clump of dwarf willows, on [[strikethrough]] pretty [[/strikethrough]] dry ground, pretty thickly interspersed with dwarf willows, & very small spruces; no large trees.  Nest similar to that of [[underlined]] Cupidonia cupido. [[/underlined]] I shot the [[female symbol]] as she got up.

1170 [[underlined]] Junco hyemalis [[/underlined]] 6421 3 eggs. [[strikethrough]] I saw [[female symbol]] close, and am sure of the genus, but not of the species.[[/strikethrough]].  Nest on ground at the foot of a clump of dwarf willows in rather open place. Youkon June 3.  K