wf»e quite good I might therefore suspect that locality is most • important 
in bird conslntrstion® and not necessary in werther. Presumibly food 
is a deciding factor in determining locality of consintrations. 
Day 8 
The wind subcided during the night and the swells have been 
smoothed off so that the weather is about equal to tht of the first 
fe w days of the trip, clear and warm, light but steady breeze scattered 
clouds and no rain. 
We ran into several good groups of birds early this morning but 
were not able to collect any as they stayed out of range. Unless a 
flock stay8 near the ship for some time there is little point in putting 
over the whale host to go out into it collect. We shot at several 
birds this morning but cound see the pattern fall short on the wster. 
Mr. Bushman advised me today that he hed recieved security clearance 
(confidential level) on all of the new pacific project employees, but 
none on Bob, Fred, Union end me he indicated th*t he thought that we 
j 
hed never filled out the porper forms when I told him that this was 
not so he said that we had probably never sent them to the right people. 
I have rather anoyed with his attitude from time to time on this trip. 
if anything has gone wrong in the past it was Smithsonian's fault . 
Both Bob, and I jumped on him verbibl&ly about this comment, a second 
grip was th?t he suppose to have a man keeping weather information 
and another getting ships position every hour we have asked him for 
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this imformatlon at the end of each day since the t^lp began so vm 
i 
can start working up the bird data he keeps beating around the bush about 
its all taken care of and don f t worry about it and you don f t need yet* 
