June 24 Point Barrow, Alaska Seen located, one on the plot and 13 near it, largely on irregular at each end of the plot. Nests include 3 black brant, 4 pomarine jaeger, 2 Steller eider, 1 pintail duck, 2 short-eared owl, 1 longspur, 1 phalarope, the last mentioned on the plot. The day was overcast but without precipitation. It was mild with a light to gentle west wind, temperature 45° in midday on an outdoor thermometer. There was considerable shooting by eskamis and waterfowl were flying more than for many days. June 25 There was a fresh west wind all day that caused considerable shifting of the ice pack. The pressure ridge remained essentially the same but there was occasional buckling and general disturbance in it. Cakes of ice were shoved as far as 60' out on the beach at the Navy Base and the thaw strip along the beach was closed. In the intermediate area between beach and the ridge there were many small eruptions of the ice with discontinuous masses and small ridges of ice blocks cast up. The day was sunny but the wind discouraged field work. I counted lemmings in the drum area in late morning. In the afternoon Pitelka, Thompson, and I began to census the marsh plot but because of the interference by wind we gave this up. Wind slackened in late afternoon and overcast moved in.