June 19 th, On my round looking at my traps this morning I found a female Sooty Brown with a brood of young, This is the only Brown we have seen on Barrowft Island; nor have we heard a "hoot." This female was very solicitous for her young and bold. She came almost within reach of my hand a number of times, and it was difficult to drive her far enough away to "any" live. As we had no Specimens from here I wanted her, but it seemed hard to kill her. Still it is no worse than to kill a sitting bird as we often do before we know that they are incer- Rating. July 9th, Glacier Bay, The adult male Microtus have large gland-like spaces on Their hips. These spaces on old males are nearly a square inch in area, but are much smaller in young adult males. They are areas of thicker and congested skin, the veins showing very distinctly on the inside, but are scarcely discernable on the outside. As they are lacking in the females I suppose they are sexual in office, in some way.