ANAKTUVUK PASS 77 



Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus) 



9 males 



May 23, July 24 



weight (14), 29-36, 

 average 32 g. 



12 females 



May 18, June 24 



weight (7), 29-33, 

 average 35 g. 



2 nests, each with 



June 22, 1949 





4 fresh eggs and 







1 parent 



The earliest records of nortliern plialarope are May 18, 1951, May 

 24, 1950, May 30, 1949 (when 40 were seen). May 18, 1952, May 19, 

 1953, and June 1, 1954. In late May, many migrants are seen, but 

 within a few days the migrants hastily pass and the remainder of 

 these nervous but friendly little birds settle on most of the pools and 

 lakes of the Valley. The Nunamiut name Kaiyiorgon, meaning "float 

 like an Eskimo in a kayak," aptly describes the appearance of phala- 

 ropes floating lightly on the water with head erect and dark eyes alert 

 like a watchful Eskimo in a kayak. 



Examination of developing eggs in 15 birds between May 18 and 

 June 2, 1951, showed none longer than 6 mm. The first nest reported 

 that year was found by John Krog at Imaiginik June 8. 



These phalaropes are very numerous, probably equaling in their 

 numbers the Baird's and semipalmated sandpipers. 



Family STERCORARIIDAE: Jaegers, Skuas 

 Stercorariiis pomarinus (Temminck) 



Pomarine jaegers are uncommon in the mountains. They are well 

 known to the Nunamiut, from their experience on the arctic coast, as 

 Isongngakluk. Accordingly, I credit Simon Paneak's sight records 

 on May 11, 1950, and two dark and one light bird on June 10, 1950, 

 and Elijah Kakena's report of three on May 31, 1952. 



In the mountain valleys, they are said to be occasionally seen in 

 small groups in spring, but are thereafter much less frequently ob- 

 served than other jaegers and usually as single individuals. It is not 

 known that they nest in the Valley, and they are so uncommon that I 

 call them visitors. I would be surprised if these jaegers migrated 

 northward through Anaktuvuk, for they are so seldom reported from 

 interior Alaska that I suspect that those which come in to the 

 mountains come from the north. 



Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus) 



2 males, 1 dark. May 27, June 9 weight 513, 428 g. — 



llight 



3 females, 1 dark June 11, July 29 weight 540, 520, 412 



2 light g. 



The earliest recorded sight of 6 parasitic jaegers in 1949 was May 

 22 at Tuluak Lake. One was reported May 21, 1951, one on May 30, 



