Ho eg an , J. V. 
1964 — Aleutians 
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e walk some slopty str ets end visit/ Alaska F f n- ! G. , but John 
Burns on Dioase&es. Try Bur. of Ind. Affairs for vehicle and Jack Burkehart 
calls around till F. grid 0 agrees intake us out to Safety ^egoon. We also 
call thp C .0. at HF cape, St. Lawrence and agree to fly out Friday* 
Brawny young; protection agent, Fred Schultz ts’es us In Scout to Safety 
Sound, hut drives dusty rd, too fast and doesn’t stop enough so my glimpses 
of whimherel and snipe and longspurs through dusty windshield were not 
satisfying. Soom long-tailed jaegers, many northern ph&l&ropes and l&pland 
longspurs, red phalarone, ground s .uirrels, and arctic terns before we cross 
Home River’s 1-lane bridge, then at the thick -lders uo to 10 or 12* high at 
Cepe Nome were hoary redpolls, white-crown sparrows, fox sparrows, and will© 
ptarmigan, -'ore phalarope at Safety Sound, pintails, pail of Old Squaw; pr. 
green-wing teal; semi-pelmated sandpipers. Savannah suerrows, and a dunlin. 
Wf turn a round at the ferry at jailer ort 21 and I locate a longspur nest 
with 5e. ~A lot of ’sklmo shacks all along spit but most seem empty. 
Take Cepe Home Mil. camp Rd. over a mile north along hill end over 
small snowdrifts. Hear grey cheek thrushm see robin and maybe common 
redpolls. First two golden plover on the breedin groundi A dead lemming 
in a redpoll nest seems to have frozen there. Hear grey-cheeked thrush and 
see a Siberian Rough-legged. Hawk hunting. Returning to Nome I spot pair of 
loons in bay but too far sway. 3-hr. trip. 
This aft. we walk in beginning sprinkle to Chuck Reeder’s garage and 
arrange to rent vehicle tomorrow. Also through cemetery which is very full 
of decaying falling boards and crosses, frost-heaved ground, 2 small spruces 
(larger 6’ tall). See pr. gray-cheek thrushes, robins, snlpe-v'alk along ebn’d 
