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flying than were yesterday. I resumed my stand and the first game that was bagged was a specimen of Archibuteo lagopus has been rather common for the last two days. 
Afterwards I shot three geese two Branta leucopareia and one A. albifrous, When the wind began to blow strong from the south and the geese stopped flying A pair of Squatarola helvetica passed over in the morning and about noon a single specimen of the White-rumped Godwit was seen in Rusty-headed

Blackbirds are common in pairs. 
Tringa semipalmata is becoming quite common and single specimens of Gallinago wilsoni passed over while I was in my stand.
The country about Kotlik is covered with the numerous sloughs and ramifications of the Yukon along the banks of which is a scrubby growth of alders and other bushes from two to eight feet high back from the streams the bushes are interrupted by open glades often

Transcription Notes:
Archibuteo lagopus = Rough-legged Hawk The full name of "Branta leucopareia" is "Branta hutchinsii leucopareia", and its common name is the Aleutian cackling goose. The previous transcriber wrote "Branta leucopsis" instead for this species but I think my transcription is more likely to be correct since B. leucopsis is not native to Alaska, where this journal is written. A . albifrous = wild goose 'Squatarola helvetica' = Grey Plover