H. Verbeek 1966 Cephus grylle 17 Aug. Probably a new breeding bird for the Barrow Area. Murrel Salomonson found the bird nesting in an oil drum on 14 August, while he was hunting seals near the old village of Nuvuk inside the lagoon. The nest, with one whitish egg with dark spots on it, was located in the right hand corner of a partially flattened oil drum, which had a slit in one end which gave entrance to the drum. The opening faced SE and the drum lay on a sandy part of the narrow sandy spit. When we got nearly, after beaching the Umiale, the bird flew of the nest and circled around as a few times before landing nearly in the ocean. This circling and landing was performed once more. When we departed the bird went back in the drum again. On our way to the nest, when we were still on the water some 500 m from the nest, we saw one Cephus grylle, which was almost certainly a second bird, and while we tried to photograph the nest, the Eskimo boys claimed to have seen two birds to the north of the nest along the beach, giving a total of 3 to 4 birds (including the nesting bird) in the area. The Eskimos say that this species occurs in the off shore waters all winter long. 3 Sept. I revisited the above nest, after we had been told that some Eskimo boys had shot the adult bird a few days ago. They shot it because they had never shot such a bird before! The egg lay near the entrance of the drum. The young bird inside appeared to have reached the hatching stage. I collected the egg, which was partially cracked, probably