Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
P* 2. 
with Mr. E. T. Judd, Game and Fish Cornmi ssioner, of Cando, North 
Dakota, to secure two of these living birds from the State Game 
Farm for the National Zoological Park in Washington. If this can 
be done, you should personally oversee the crating and shipment of 
these geese, in order that they may be properly handled. The work 
in North Dakota should require not more than three weeks. On com¬ 
pletion of this assignment you are directed to return east to Chicago 
where you will spend two days at the Field Museum of Natural History, 
in order to examine specimens of South American birds in their col¬ 
lections to secure needed data in connection with the reports on 
your collections of birds from southern South America. Upon com¬ 
pletion of this you are directed to return to your official station, 
Washington, D.C. 
With best wishes, I am 
Very truly yours 
