Journal 50 The river bluff are most productive floristically but they have few shore birds. As you go inland the number of flowering species decreases, the ground becomes more moist and there are more shore birds. During a two hour hike Steve and I saw Golden Plover and Black-bellied Plover, Northern and Red Phalarope, Peetral sandpiper, very few Semipalmated Sandpipers. No Baird Sandpiper yet. We also saw quite a few Arctic loon and Red-throated Loon. After supper Roger, Steve and I hiked to a large inland lake NW of the camp. This lake has sand dunes on its northern end only as far as I could see. We found there a large number of fresh water snail "houses", of limnaea-shape. These were washed ashore and most of them were empty. The last whorl was very large compared to the others. The drawing is natural size. These must be the most northern fresh water snails. The many loons seen on these lakes could well be feeding on these snails. +July. Sunday. Broken clouds with periodic sunshine. After a late breakfast Steve, Tom and I went up river in the outboard motor boat to a point about 1½ km S of camp, where we pulled the boat ashore just beyond the sharp bend in the river. From there we walked slowly upstream, sticking close to the dbanks along the river. These banks are covered with a low growing stand of willow (Salix ), the tallest of which grow on the side of the bank and then progressively smaller as you go land inward. We caught two large