Field notes: Alaska, v4401
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M. Brock 1958 June 16 Journal Banow, Alaska Banow at 1200. Ate lunch, put up study skin of Dirostryx caught at Wainwright and cleaned fox skull. The fox skull which was found at Wainright on June 11 (see note June 13) is much larger than the white fox skull we have at the lab. It is therefore assumed to be a red fox. It was found, without a skeleton, just skull near the Wainwright garbage dump about 1.5 miles west of the village. The muscles on the skull were still somewhat fresh so that it was probably an animal killed last winter. June 17 Spread peanut butter, bacon grease and clove oil mixture on the three hundred and twenty five traps again because some of the traps were mixed in with Dral Solomon's traps which were set out last fall. Took a weasel trip through Central Marsh and along the edge of most of it. Saw three gulls, two jaegers, many phalaropes. Observed one large group of steller eiders with about 18 males and 10 females in it; also saw two other groups of Steller eiders one which may have been the same as the first group in a different locality. The other group of Steller