P. DeBenedicts 196c Journal 4 August Meade River Coal Mine, 15?25 W70?37 N, Alaska dinner. Found a couple more new flowers, think I'm done, at last. The trip back along the river uneventful - only 1 Semipal. 8-9 longspurs & 2 Wagtail seen. hours on the River; few ducks, another group now conspicuously absent. In the evening went across the river a slint Twin, but saw little. Then went to Lake Ikmakwak with Art to look for Toucans. We saw lots of glaucous gulls on peat cairns cairns and a few (5-6) Paranite Toucans along the lake. They attacked Guy Sheppard's clog, Dike, where he went ahead of us. We saw 3 Pectoral, a golden plover, 2 dunlin and a Red Phalarope at the edge of the polygonal Eriophora association on the way back in. With the overcast and low winds & sunset - the evening stars are now magnificent - so bad I don't have any color film. Along lake Ikmakwak they are many small gulls emptying into the lake, and a very distinctive plant ascoctola; the gulls, also popular with longspurs, No microtus as usual. 5 August Went back to Ikmakwak. Wind very fat now and it unpleasant out. No morgulius shit. I saw 1 dunlin, 1 Pectoral and 3 imm. Red Phalarope in the very shallow polygonal