Gill, Douglas E . 
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I hit the sack at midnight just as Dave and Dayle came back. 
12 August 1964- : I got up late around 0930. Larry had already taken Dayle 
to the University. Then Dave and Larry left for a shopping trip Just when 
I was getting up. I went down to the pool and wrote my journal and the dark- 
rumped petrel report. Dayle called around noon that he wanted to be picked 
up but the other two hadn't come back yet. They did an hour later arid Larry 
went to pick him up. Dayle wanted to go out to Ely's to ask him about Cam's 
pair of binoculars. I decided to go along because I wanted to ask him about 
a reprint of Richardson's paper in Condor 5 6, and our arrangements for the 
Kauai trip. He didn't have a reprint and didn't want to give any final 
details of the Kauai trip. It depended on how many birds we got done. I 
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was a little worried about this, because although Larry had done several 
(maybe a dozen) and I had only done 1 Fairy Tern. When we got back I started 
to skin right away. I took out a gray-backed Team but a small shorebird 
fell out so I decided to do it. It looked like a Sanderling but was too 
dark. It was in pretty bad shape, 2 huge holes in the head which I sewed 
up. Two and l/2 hours later I finished just as Dr. Ely came in. It came 
out well I thought in spite of an odd looking head, and some featherless 
spots on the breast. Dave and I then identified it as a Red, Phalarope with 
which Dr. Ely concurred. Dave and Dr. Ely went out for dinner and soon 
Dayle and Larry cleaned up and hit the town. I decided to do another bird 
before I ate, so I got out an adult Sooty and worked steadily on it from 
6:30 to 10:00. It came out real well and I was proud of it. I used a cotton 
body and all and was glad I could show Larry this method does work. I then 
