January 20, 1948 
Mr, Watson M, Perrygo, 
Taxidermist, 
U. S, National Museum. 
Through: Dr, W. L>. Schmitt. 
Dear Mr. Perrygo: 
Herewith I give you a letter of authorization covering 
your rail and pullman to Florida, and your round trip air passage 
from Florida to the Canal Zone. With this therei s included 
another letter to cover subsitence and other field expenses. As 
indicated you will probably be under necessity of paying rail fare 
and pullman from Florida to Washington on your return from 
this second allotment. 
You will join Dr. M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, who is engaged on archeological work in the 
Republic of Panama. Dr. Stirling is located at Parita where he has 
e stablished headquarter s. 
1 have written to Dr. James Zetek, resident manager of 
the Canal Zone Biologica Area, that you are due to arrive in Panama 
by plane about 2:00 p.m. on January 28, and have asked him to meet 
you and to get you accommodations at the Tivoli Hotel. Dr. Stirling 
has a small truck and will take you in it to his location in the field. 
In case there is any unforeseen complication that will prevent this 
you will be under necessity of hiring special conveyance and in travel¬ 
ing in it. 
I will write Dr. Stirling of the date of your arrival with the 
suggestion that he pick you up on Thursday, January 29. It will be 
well for you to wire him at Parita on your arrival so as to let him 
know that you have come. Dr. Zetek can assist you in this. 
Your work will be concerned with the collection of birds 
in the general region around Parita. This is described as savanna 
