Journal July 7 (cnt'l) including adding new breeding boxes which have a lift table Top for observing the young. These will replace the coffee cans. The weather has changed. Claude rolled in and the wind came up. Now it is raining which started about 2:00. It is only a steady rain, not heavy. (sp.) A friend of Mahr, John Karama, came in today. Mahr says he is a botanist. July 8, 1962, Barrow, Alaska Started to work on the colony the first thing in the morning. I made a mistake in mixing up data sheets and lost two hours untangling it. The weather was gloomy with intermittent showers in the morning, clearing in the late afternoon and evening. Mahr did note that the barometric pressure was down to 27.7 mm, the lowest Mahr had seen it this summer. After dinner, I baby-sat for the Mublins while they went to a movie I had already seen. After the movie I left with Holmes for Skroolik. The Warrigan had been broken into for the second time. Only a few can goods had been taken. No equipment has ever been taken in any instance. The latch with the padlock had been unscrewed and removed. We traversed the plot the next morning moving quickly through the area due to little bird activity. After lunch we took the long way to ART by circling through the marshy areas at the south end of Skroolik Lake. Observed flocks of phalaropes, saltini's gulls, and various numbers of Steller's evers [illegible] Jaegers, Arctic terns, Snowy Owls & Old squaws!