Childs 1955 Dicrostony x groenlandicus July 5 Atkaonh, Meade River, Alaska I bought a D 1974 from a guskin girl who said she caught it near her tent at the edge of the village. David called it avingyuk, although Mrs. Brown called it leilamentute. We found a nest by opening a active burrow in a lussock on a well drained polygon ridge. Nest was a foot in from the entrance 4" below surface. Two escape entrants and one large scatiorium were included adult not found. Young were about 3" long and actively crawling about. July 6 See journal. July 8 Got 7 in T2 on first screening. This line did not appear good to me as there was few runways evident. Yet this was a good catch. It may be that Dicrostony is not the runway builder that hammaris. Yesterday John Frank + I looked at the nest mentioned above, the young were gone. Fresh scats collected from a dead animal were much smaller than Lemmus. I have observed these types of scat only occasionally in the field and at that time thought they were from Microtus. If Dicrostony does not make runways, the indicators by scat would be hard to find on the