June 7 Point Barrow, Alaska Of a frightened lemming. In some places there were 5 or 6 to a square yard, others scrambled about when the grass was trod upon and care had to be exercised to avoid stepping upon the little fellows. These scraps of grass cover offered the heaviest concentration of lemmings that we found, sometimes 40 or 50 in a little area like that described. And they were all busy eating. From a distance the lemmings were like so many round balls scattered about, often outlined by the receding, irregular cover of snow adjacent to which they fed. Many lemmings wandered on the open gravelly stretches, and even individual clumps of greens were found by them. Looking out over the sea ice lemmings could be seen bobbing up and down in their hurried flowing manner, over the irregular surface. They were well scattered out, but 2 or 3 could often be seen at once, and as far out as we could see with the field glasses, a mile or more. They went in any direction, deviating rather frequently from a set course. Thus the big migration is on and some of the lemmings have probably reached the water by this time, several miles out from the gravel spit. At the point we counted