Field notes: Alaska, v4401
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M. Brock 1958 Aug 16 Journal Wainwright, Alaska the "point" about 2-3 miles west along the shore. When starting for the walk I first watched an ornith return with another group of natives who had been caribou hunting; they had gotten 25 caribous. During the walk saw two more large (100-200) groups of [illegible] flying east along the shore in the evening, back at the village another group observed flying east. During walk observed terns diving into water near shore and come up with fish. Also observed that grass on the tundra seems to be extremely tall (e.g. eaten by lemmings) In many locations grass is over two feet tall. Other localities it reaches up to my knees. Petwite is lush and abundant. Some of the tall grass is restricted to troughs but this is not true of all locations. When I returned to camp everyone was shouting "beluga, beluga" and running about in preparation to go hunt them (See p sect.) The skulls of the two individual obtained by the natives were given to me upon my request. A good portion of the evening was spent cleaning the