UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
evergiades mtioml park 
IN REPLY REFER TO: 
HOI'fflSTEAD, FLCRIM 
21 September I 96 I 4 . 
Hr, Robert A, Sundell 
f’acifi® Project 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D. C, 
Dear Bob: 
Copies of the reprints you asked for are enclosed. Thanks much for 
sending the plastic streamers. I’ve written to the conpany to get a list of 
what they have available and prices. At the moment I’m not sure what use if 
any we’ll make of plastic markers in the Sooty Tern work at Dry Tortugas, I 
doubt that we’ll undertake to mark large numbers with the streamers, but we 
may ■undertake to mark adults in limited areas of the colony in order to get 
data on site tenacity. In any event I’ll keep the two you sent as souveniers 
and ■will avoid using orange, if we do any streasner marking. 
1811 be happy to correspond ■with George Watson about the Sooties re¬ 
covered in West Africa. Seven of these have come through to date, and we an¬ 
ticipate a few more from the 16,000 juveniles banded this year. To date ■we have 
no transAtlantic recoveries for Anous stolidus , and ■we’ve banded only two A, 
te nuir ostris. 
William B, Robei-tson, 
Park Biologist 
Jr, 
