P.DeBevedi\chi 1966 Journal 12 August Meadow River, Coal Mine, 157°25' W, 70°27' N, Alaska river margin seems to be a maga's shorebird habitat; the Eriophorum-Carex polygon being largely abandoned. As to the other birds - the gulls, terns, geese and ducks and loons are all in the large ponds & lakes; geese were not settled enough To tell what the local parasitics were at least now wanderer, the long-tail rest was in a pond area; Arctic loon were almost strictly pond specie, whereas the Red-throats spent much time in the Rivers (saw Yellow bills only in the large lakes), Not separation in the gulls, or, ducks, and geese were scarce. Yellow Wagtail + White-crown sparrow were strictly river- side species, the former overleap on the bluffs of the wetter near the willows; Savannah sparrow + willow Ptarmigan + Redpolls were more wide spread, occurring where Salix pulchra was thick (in clumps). Longspurs were more widespread than any other species, and grazed in all habitats (probably not relying in strictly associations) and seemed to rest most abundantly on the Eriophorum-covered dykes between the polygonal pools. They are abundant in the willow association but nesting there was never established for this area.