Gill, Douglas E. 
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Honolulu, Hawaii 
movie, A Shot In the Dark , with Peter Sellers was a riot. When we got back 
at the hotel we met Ken and Paul W. going to do wash so Dick and I joined 
theta. We returned around one and we hit the sack. 
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Dr. Ely came knocking chi the door at 0645 so I woke Pete up. He got 
ready and soon he and Doug left. I called the car rental for Doug then went 
back to sleep. I got up at 0950 and cooked some eggs and bacon Pete had 
left. I then straightened tilings up as Larry packed hie backpack. Warren 
came in right after Doug came back and took Larry out to Dr. Ely's. He had 
wanted to go so sat and talked about the potential of this project birdvise. I 
showed him ay Carpodacus paper. I think very highly of Warren as one of the 
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most wonderfully worthwhile birders on this project. He is a philosophy graduate 
from Williams College. Cameron Keppler, a grad student under Dilges came by 
and joined us. He is a magnificently mature. Interesting person and I was 
attracted to him immediately. He knew Doug Futuyma. At noon we (Paul DuMont, 
Cameron and I) went to the Colonial House for lunch. I described the initiation 
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of a polliwog to a shellback to their anguish. I spent the entire afternoon \ 
writing a letter and journal. Dr. Ely came over around 1800 after Fred and wife 
had been here for awhile. Warren came over with the 4 Dark-rumped Petrels and 
1 White -necked that they collected. Much to other hotel guests' curiosity, 
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we examined the birds. Both species were amazingly close morphologically, 
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and Palmer's lumping the two seems reasonable. We discussed the situation of 
possible allopatry and lack of information regarding isolating mechanises. 
I changed into some good clothes but wasn't invited to join the Ely's, Sibley's, 
