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tuvuk (L. Irving and Paneak, 1954). Cade found them at Umiat 

 (Kessel and Cade, 1958). 



I consider that the indications warrant designating the pileolated 

 warblers as birds nesting at Anaktuvuk. 



Family ICTERIDAE: Blackbirds 

 Euphagus caroliniis carolinus (Miiller) 



6 males 



May 15-Aug. 31 



weight (4), 60-66, 

 average 63 g. 



i females 



May 17-July 8 



weight (3), 48.0-60.0, 

 average 63 g. 



1 young male 



Julys 



weight 65.4 g. 



1 young female 



Julys 



weight 50.4 g. 



1 young male 



Aug. 31 



weight 55.5 g. 



Individual rusty blackbirds have been reported May 15, 1949, May 

 16, 1950, May 22, 1951, and May 18, 1952, and a few have been seen 

 each year in each summer month. Mating and nesting or summer 

 resident blackbirds were not remarked until 1951, and if they nested 

 commonly their revealing habits would scarcely have allowed them 

 to escape observation. But in 1951, Simon Paneak and William 

 Irving collected an adult pair and a well-grown young male and 

 female at Amorgoayat in the Killik Valley on July 8. I had formerly 

 thought of them as visitors from the Koyukuk and Alatna Valleys, 

 where I have frequently seen numerous family groups, but since a 

 family group has been seen in the Killik Valley, I consider it certain 

 that an occasional pair nests in the mountain valleys in addition to 

 numerous visitors which come in from the wooded valleys to the 

 south. 



The Nunamiut name is Tolungiksyaurak, meaning "little raven." 



Family FRINGILLIDAE: Grosbeaks, Finches, Sparrows, Buntings 



Pinicola enucleator alascensis Ridgway 



1 male Nov. 11, 1948 



2 females Jan. 31-Nov. 11 



I have seen pine grosbeaks frequentlj'^ in the timbered regions of 

 the Koyukuk and Alatna Valleys, and I have numerous records and 

 specimens from the northernmost spruce forest of the John and Savio- 

 yuk Rivers. They are also seen occasionally in winter among the 

 willows of the valleys as far north as the northern mountain line. 

 According to Simon Paneak none have been seen further north. The 

 Nunamiut name is Kayatavahi 



I have only one observation recorded in summer north of the tim- 

 ber; Jesse Ahgook reported a pair to be nesting among the willows 

 of Contact Creek, June 7, 1951. His observations are usually ac- 



