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[[Somatina fischin]]
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1954 |L.| 22| sp. on.| 36 |(male symbol)
1955 |" | 22| " |36 1/2 |(male symbol)
1956 | "| 21 3/4| "  | 35 | (male symbol)
1957 |"| 21 1/2 | " | 35 | (female symbol)
1958 |"| 21 | " | 35 1/2 | (female symbol)
1959 |"| 22 | " | 36 1/2 | (female symbol)
My workman brought in the just measured spec's with a lot of eggs numbering about 100 including a sct of som.fischen of which he shot the (female symbol) as she left the nest and he also took 12 eggs of Xena - see in egg cate for other eggs all under June 6th.
He reports only one or two pairs of Xenas nesting on the island when I secured so many eggs last spring and says the Xenas are much less numerous than formerly up the canal and that all kinds of birds (small species) are mating fewer near our last years collecting ground. I learn for the first time now that each year in the fall in Nov & last of Oct. the Ptarmigan of both species gather in great flocks along the North shore of Norton Sound & cross the sound to Stewart Is - & the mainland & seek the sheltered interior. They fly in the evening & after dark and it is in this flight that the natives secure so many in nets at the head of Norton bay when the birds come across from [[Kotzone??]] Sd. in great flocks-
In April the birds pass back flying only at night and in large parties at was one of these migrating parties I saw at the village  mill one eve. last Oct or Nov. just as darkness settled down - all were