SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
AIRMAIL 
February l8^ 1965 
Dr. Charles A. Ely 
6159 Pahukula Place 
Honolulu^ Hawaii 9682I 
Dear Dr. Ely; 
As you can see from the attached list we have one more Newell’s Shear¬ 
water than you have data and lack one of the skinned birds. I have sent 
this list back to you in hopes that one of the many people involved will 
remember something about one of the 5-6 unmatched birds. I assume that 
10577 mast be one of the three sent by Swedberg on 12 October 1964. You’re 
not the only one who has troubles. I planned to skin all three of the 
Newell's Shearwaters here and then we could only find one of them. Today, 
a week later we finally located them under about a ton of other specimens. 
Sundell has now finished the checking and is starting to catalogue the ATF 
material. 
Sincerely yours 
Fred 0. Sibley 
Research Curator 
Pacific Project 
Enc. 
