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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, U, S, A, 
MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY 
liajT 16, 1951 
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Dr. Alexander Wetmore 
U. S. National Masemn 
Washington 25 » 
D. C. 
Dear Wetmore: 
Tour letter of May l4 has just come. 
I shall go north the morning of June 7t so your June 9 date would he excellent. 
(The June 21 date would he all right also, hut, as I indicated, early June is a hit 
pleasanter.) I would suggest that the June 9 date is the one to pick, trying to 
keep the possibility of falling hack on June 22 as a reserve date in case you should 
he forced to cancel the earlier one. 
I note that a Michigan permit has been sent you. You can disregard that hunt¬ 
ing license matter; I have a ruling in my file that no hunting license is required 
except for shooting ducks during the duck season. If you have not already filled 
out the blank they sent you, I would suggest that you just fill in ”hirds** in the 
space under ”the following numbers and kinds” of birds. Also, you need not pay 
even the $ 1.00 fee. That is not charged in the case of staff members of public 
institutions. 
I understand fully that your plans have to he subject to sudden change, hut 
1*11 hope for the best and keep you posted on ray telegraph address after I leave 
Ann Arbor. 
The picture of Batchelder’s home delights me. I have many very happy memories 
connected with it. You photographed it at just the ri^t season. Earlier it wo\ild 
have looked a little bare; later it would have been partly obscured by leaves. 
I just saw a remarkable stray bird. Eapp sent me a Clapper Rail taken in a 
muskrat trap at Stapleton, ^ Nebraska, in February. It proves to be crepitansi 
How do you explain that one? 
Thank you very much for sending us the Shenandoah Vall^ list. 
Sincerely, 
JY/ mk 
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