A M Verbeek 1960. Journal 55 deep lakes have any fish in them? On my way down to the lake I caught 4 large 1\2cm spiders. Two of them carried egg cases. The spiders live in a small burrow, lined with spider-web-like material and the entrance is paved too. When you move your hand over the burrow the spiders runs down, but soon comes out again. I do not think they are of much use as food for shorebirds because they are rather alert. On a small lake, SW of the large one I noticed a goodly number of ducks and some ducklings as well. By lying flat on the ground among the carex and by waving my hat above the grass, Red-throated loon, Old Squaw and Spectacled Eider females came to about 25m of me. Aside from mosquitoes there were no other insects around today. On a windy day, mosquitoes stay put on the ground and vegetation and are then easily caught I suppose. So I would not be surprised if they form a large part of the diet of the birds here. 8 July. Sunny morning, clouding over toward the afternoon. Very little wind and consequently many mosquitoes. Collected some plants in the morning and I made a water color of Byrada grandiflora. In the afternoon Tom and I looked out to the large lake W. of our camp where Tom tried to collect an Arctic Tern and where I took a bath and a swim (rather cold but refreshing). The lake was very quiet today and I saw several fish surface. This confirms my belief that the terns were fishing