P. DeBenedictis 1965 30 June Barrow, Alaska of water or most of it; turning green. As I had been told there were large numbers of birds out on the marsh, mostly dowitchers, Golden Plovers and Pectoral Sandpipers, with a scattering of almost everything else. I went out to the 1st flock of birds I could see along the rim and the third bird I looked at, I couldn't identify - it proved to be some sort of a Charadrius plover, probably mongolicus. I thus worked on to a group of Semipals. To look for a Rufous-rumped Sandpiper seen yesterday and found one, which appeared only to have one leg; the next flock of small peep had 2 more! I thus went out through the marsh to look for a "Great Knot" (which was this plover) that had been seen with some dowitchers yesterday - by walking almost to the center of the marsh and checking all groups of shorebirds I could find, especially dowitchers. Nothing odd. The distribution of shorebirds on the marsh was probably were indicative of feeding behavior than a number of observations, as conditions were rather uniform throughout. No Bairds or White-rumps were seen in the marsh; the Rufous-necked, Westerns and Semipals were all along the edge, usually in ground with shallow water and disturbed by skates. The Phalaropes were rather evenly distributed over the entire area, and Pectorals, Dowitchers and Plovers were more numerous towards the center of the marsh than along the perimeter; the latter 3 species tended to occur in groups and