is presently at sea. Party returned to the ship for dinner at 1200. 
This afternoon the field party went out into the country west and 
northwest of Pearl Harbor. We traveled past Pearl City to the mud 
flats where the stilts are plentiful. We observed many stilt% about 
6 Flat-crowned Night Herons and many G&lden Plovers feeding on the 
mud flats. Also noted 1 Cattle Egret near the mangrove swamps at the 
edge of the mud flats. We then made a loop through the pineapple 
and sugar cane growing areas and went to a State Park northeast of 
Aiea where we saw one Elepio, several Hill Robins and one House Finch. 
The weather today has grown considerably worse though it has been 
cloudy and rainy ever since we arrived. Today has been intermittent 
squally rains, high winds and very overcast. McFarlanee returned from 
Midway very late this afternoon and informed us that the officials there 
were totally unprepared for our project. There have apparently been 
some serious omissions on the part of DESERET in making the necessary 
preparations for the project and a definite lack of vital communication 
between them and the Navy. Once they were appraised of the situation, 
they most readily cooperated and were very helpful. Lt. McDaniel 
went out of his way to arrange the things that he could at Midway for 
the project. Chandler Robbins dropped his work in order to take Bob 
around, show him what the situation was like, and advise him generally 
in order that the project might operate for efficiency. Those paints 
which have not been satisfactorily straightened out by the military 
include: l) clearance for live birds to leave Midway on a MATS passenger 
plane. All MATS planes in and out? of Midway carry passengersj 2 flights 
per week. 2) No orders have been cut for Fred to fly on a MATS plane; 
