July 14, 1944* 
Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, 
Headquarters Box 1000, 
A.P.O. 827, 
c/o Postmaster, 
New Orleans, Louisiana. 
Dear Dr. Morrisons 
If you have sufficient preservative, and time permits, 
see if you can get some more pelicans during the course of your 
work. I find the one that I skinned an interesting specimen, 
learn also, now that I am back here, that there is consider-* 
able uncertainty as to the identity of birds from our area. 
Do not bother to prepare the birds with gray heads and 
necks. These are immature and would be of no value in determining 
the identity of the form. Take only specimens with the hind neck 
brown, or one or two of those with the hind neck pure white. The 
brown necked individuals are in breeding plumage, those with the 
brown replaced by white are in the winter or non breeding dress. 
These specimens need only be skinned out and poisoned with enough 
filling put in them to allow them to dry as they can be made up 
here in the Taxidermy Shop. Four or five will be acceptable if 
you have opportunity. 
We have had a little rain here in the last twenty—lour 
hours which is welcome as the vegetation had been turning very 
brown. Saturday we let people go home early on account of the heat 
so that it is welcome to have cooler temperature now. 
With my kindest regards, I am 
Sincerely yours. 
A. Wetmore, 
Acting Secretary. 
