January 1953 Larus hyperboreas May 29 Point Barrow, Alaska - not been on the ground among the buildings, where there is little or nothing to attract them. May 29 Small groups continue to fly over the pt base several times a day. In the afternoon we saw small groups out in the open tundra south of the base, one to 5 at a place and frequently 2 or 3 together. The birds flew about but were generally on the snow. Likely they came to feed on lemmings, either ones they were able to capture or others that are left death by the snowy owl. Once Frank Pitelka and I saw an owl repeatedly flying at a gull as the two birds and another gull moved in circular flight as high as 50' or 75' above ground. The gulls left the area after the owl settled near the place where 4 had been. Later the owl followed to where the gulls had gone. When the birds met there was a commotion and the owl again maneuvered after a gull among 3 in flight, the gull pursued principally had a dark object, almost certainly a large lemming, in its bill. After about two turns it made off and the owl