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coast in summer. Nunamiut have reported to me that stilt sandpipers 

 nest near the Colville mouth, and Tom Brower knew of a nest that 

 was found near Barter Island. I include these sandpipers as migrants 

 thinking that their rapid progress in part accounts for the few 

 observations. 



"Under the designation of visitors I list the following 22 species 

 which come to Anaktuvuk in summer but not to nest there or farther 

 north : 



Nearest known 

 Vititor nesting place 



Podiceps auritus cornutus Settles 



Accipiter gentilis atricapillus Hunt Fork 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus Koyukuk River 



Circus cyaneus hudsonius Alatna River 



Pandion haliaetus carolinensis John River 



Faico sparverius sparverius Yukon River 



Bartramia longicauda Eastern Alaska 



Erolia fuscieollis Arctic coast 



Erolia alpina pacifica Arctic coast 



Stercorarius pomarinua Arctic coast 



Lams argentatus smithsonianus Alatna River 



Xema sabini. Arctic coast 



Bubo virginianus lagophonus. Hunt Fork 



Aegolius funereus richardsoni. Hunt Fork 



Colaptes auratus borealls Bettles 



Hirundo rustica erythrogaster. Kobuk "Village 



Iridoprocne bicolor. Bettles 



Riparia riparia riparia Bettles 



Regulus calendula calendula Hunt Fork 



Dendroica petechia amnicola Kobuk Village 



Dendroica coronata hooveri Kobuk Village 



Junco hyemalis hyemaUa Alatna River 



I regard their attachment to Anaktuvuk as more casual than that of 

 the three species that usually come northward from the forests to 

 feed in winter among the willows on the tundra, or of the snowy owls 

 {Nyctea scandiaca) that usually appear in late winter. I suspect, 

 however, that some of the species now called visitors will subsequently 

 be found nesting near or north of Anaktuvuk. For example, marsh 

 hawks {Circiis cyaneus hudsonius) have been seen a number of times 

 and are so familiar to the Nunamiut that an explicit name is applied 

 to them. 



Two reports indicate that swallows have nested north of the Brooks 

 Range. Anderson (1921) reported seeing the characteristic burrows 

 of bank swallows {Riparia riparia riparia) along the Hula Hula 

 River. I have not seen their burrows north of the woodlands and 

 the Nunamiut, who study as problems the absence of birds well known 

 elsewhere, do not know of any burrows north of the Koyukuk. We 



