Maclean 1969 Journal (25 June) lemming nests while Tom shot 3 longspurs, took 25 busy minutes to drive to site II! Made the tanglefoot change. Found a 4-egg melanotos nest by stake 1.8 of trapline II; collected & and all eggs. On the way back stopped by the earlier melanotos nest, but the & was not seen in 40 minutes of watching, so we went in to process prior specimens. Went out after dinner and shot this & and took the clutch. Saw a Mustella erminea under the all-sky camera site in the morning. Saw 2 large shir-piles nearby; this convinced me that the large piles with many skulls, as seen in 1965, belong to this species rather than to rixose. Late in the evening, after processing last & melanotos and eggs, walked into Barrow and wrote field notes there. 26 June Barrow, Alaska Missed the departure for trapline check by trying to get a replacement boat, so I spent most of the morning writing a letter, finishing 500-sample sorting, and working around the lab. Walked out with Hawes at 1:00. Harvested a melanotos nest that he found this