Saturday May 14. Spent forenoon and part of afternoon in woods and took a number of birds which I put up in the afternoon and evening. The river is now nearly clear of drifting ice and a large part of that which was jammed across, has broken away. The water has fallen and the batteries again bare. Today the leaves on the aspens and branches are half an inch in length. Sunday May 15. Sotka walk to pond near lower end of island in Afternoon. The day was not very warm and birds were not much in evidence. During the day the ice jam at the opposite side the river gave way and the ice which had remained broke up it went down. May 16. Spent the forenoon and early part of afternoon at the a good lot of birds which I skinned in the P.M. After supper I walked across the Muckin gie with Fred Camerons and went up its small stream "Bluefish River." At the "barrier" where they catch the bluefish Banks grunion. The barrier was a dam built across the river at a shallow point. It was constructed of branches placed against strong stones driven into the gravel and was made quite tight with spruce branches, so that a fish could not easily pass down the dam was V-shaped at its apex a long basket of straight poles cone shape was placed at base about 2 feet wide being built in at the opening of the dam. This basket was about 10 feet long and lay beside