April 24, 1944 
Dr. J. P. E. Morrison, 
Headquarters Box 1000, 
A.P.O. 827, 
c/o Postmaster, 
Mew Orleans, La. 
Dear Morrison: 
X note your statement in yours of April 8 regarding funds. 
I am pleased to learn that you have sufficient now on hand. The rose 
tanager, if it is a bird that is completely red, is probably a migrant 
summer tanager from the north. In your location it could be either 
species of the eastern United States or the one of the southwest. They 
are distinguished mainly by size. News of the land rail is great and 
I congratulate you. I felt sure that one would come to hand sooner or 
later. It was certainly exasperating to have them elude us as they did 
up to the time of my departure. As time goes on they should become tamer 
since that has been my observation of them under similar conditions else¬ 
where. 
I hope that you will be able before long to get up into the 
savanna but watch your step in going into that area in order to make sure 
of a reasonable trail. I presume that by now the additional tank with the 
collecting equipment has reached you so that you will be in better shape 
to get more birds. If you get to the savanna watch for anything peculiar 
especially among the smaller birds. 
There may be a small coal-black finch there similar to the 
one that I got when I was off with the colored boy MartilddSb on our second 
trip. It would be found in bushes around the opening. 
The mail that did not reach me in part at least has been 
returned to me in Washington now. 
The labels have now been strung and I am getting them ready 
to put on the skins so as to have this material ready for study. 
Sincerely yours. 
A. Wetmore, 
Assistant Secretary. 
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