June 8, 1949. 
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Major General Willis H. Hale, 
Headquarters Caribbean Air Command, 
Albrook Air Force Base, 
Canal Zone. 
Dear General Hale: 
Having been home for a month I am now fairly well 
oriented relative to the various administrative matters that 
awaited me, and also have the results of our last season’s 
scientific work in Panama in such form that it is possible 
now to evaluate them. 
My own work in the eastern part of the Province of 
Panama has given us approximately 925 specimens of birds of 
264 distinct species. This is a larger number and a greater 
variety than I have ever taken before in a similar length of 
time. The specimens included a number of kinds not known 
previously from Panama, as well as representatives of several 
that I am certain are new to science. In addition to the skins 
and skeletons collected I have a large amount of notes in my 
journals that contain much new information. 
The success of this work, and its scope, has been due 
very definitely to your kindness in making transportation avail¬ 
able in the form of a jeep. With this car I was able to cover a ^ 
considerable area in the eastern part of the Province of Panama 
extending from the swamps in the coastal region inland to the 
low mountains on the Continental Divide, and from the eastern 
edge of the savanna area over into the forests as far as the 
lower course of the Bayano River. 
The work of Dr. and Mrs. Stirling in archeology was 
equally successful and here again the results obtained were 
based definitely on the assistance that you gave in providing a 
weapons carrier for transportation into the remote areas where 
the work was carried on. 
