M. Brock 1958 June 25 Athabaska, Mead River Coal Mine, Alaska After a caribou meat dinner, notes were written. June 26 After a caribou and egg breakfast, we checked the three traplines. Not a single animal was caught, not even a bird. Two jaegers were seen (one parasitic, one long-tail), two gulls, golden plover, snow buntings, long spurs, a small sandpiper (either Baird or semi- palmated - Tom thinks it might be a western) Old squawks, pintails, loons, forestal sandpipers and red phalaropes. A walk was taken about one mile up the Mead River and then over onto the tundra and back. Four gulls and three jaegers were the only predatory birds seen. After a caribou dinner in the evening Tom checked traplines III and IV and I rowed across the river to check II. None of the three lines had any catch. While checking line IV I found a Micotus nest with three dead Micotus in it just as we have been finding dead demmingo at Barrow. The Micotus nest was located on the ground in among the willows. Two other nests were found which did not have dead rodents in them / they may have been nests from year before last. June 27 At about 1045 we got in our boat and motored about 5 miles up the Mead River