Nackean 1968 Journal 4 June) Cake-eater site to survey semi-pal population and consider this as a study area for Safrail. In <1 hr. found 2 alpina nests ca. 150 m. apart and 2 pusillio, nests ca. 60 m. apart. One of these was near the snow and obviously fresh, so after walking around the area we went back to get a trap. Returned with Soikkeli and his trap - took the incubating bird-a 4, me thinks - and the 4 eggs. Back to the lab to weigh eggs and bird. Spent the evening in Barrow at the Nalakotuk. During the evening it rained quite a bit. This should loosen up the remaining snow. 15 June Barrow, Alaska Today was the day when the snow turned to water and slush. Pete and I got waders from the camping room, then spent half of the afternoon putting tube patches over the holes in them. Went out to do habitat transects. Ran into problems in deciding how to classify flooded troughs and lawlands - they are temporarily ponds, but the actual topographic characteristics, considered without regard to moisture, are still 'trough' or 'flat'. The correct thing to do is call these tr-pw or f-pw - defining pond water as water that covers the bases