Cade 1958 Myctea scandiaca 18 June - East of Barrow, Alaska On the flight with Maher and Shanks, saw a total of 25 owls (Maher's count was 26) all within 5 to 10 minutes flight from POLO A, but most of them centred in a section of twelve from 2 to 5 miles immediately inland from the site. No nests were seen, and about 10 individuals were much too closely spaced to have been nesting, but some of the others could have been breeding birds. 19 June Barrow - while setting out traps in the afternoon Brock and I saw two owls. One large, mottled individual (??) in the vicinity of trap line, 122 on gas-line ridge, and one near west end of Cutwal Marsh - very white (?). When the owls flew, flocks of shorebirds - mostly red crane waders, took wing and flew in zig-zag flights around the owl following it to its next perching site. There the shore birds flew around the owl several times before settling back down on the ground. On his flight to see Tim Myers on the Colville delta, Paul Tietjen, reported that the owls are still concentrated around POLO A.