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Maclean
1968
Journal
4 June) and P. fulicarius were very conspicuous.
Collected 2 pectorals and 2 red-backs before
coming in.
Weather was again comfortably warm
without much wind.
5 June
Barrow, Alaska
Spent the morning in the lab. Checked
stomachs of red-backs that Pitelka removed
from his plot. 2 ♀♀ has lemming bones and
tooth, little else. ♂ has fresh tipula
larvae, no lemming material. Once again-
if holds. Went out to Drum Area briefly.
Decided to use lemming traplines
as habitat-snow cover transects. Right
after lunch started out and did: IVA-B,
III A-B, I + II, IV + VI, VII + VIII, IX + X.
This gave 6 x 102 points. I thought of
making polygons by joining the ends of each
pair of lines, but rejected this because of
the inconsistent distances between lines.
Managed to do them all in 1 afternoon-
partially due to the fact that 5 lines (IVA-B,
VIII, VII, and X) are completely
snow covered. Found that 90.2%
of the total was under snow, which
matches my subjective evaluation. This
left only 60 stations exposed-not
really enough for a good habitat sample,