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$ Ohiriqul Land Co. 
Alnlrante 3 .Bocar- del Toro 
R* de Panaafi 
Jammy 20, 1 958 
ort Friedmann 
Smithsonian Institution 
dngton 2% D.C* 
Dear Herbert t 
tours of January 6 with the additional labels earn® at an appropriate 
time as we were ready to leave the Canal Sons. 1 appreciate your prompt 
attention» 
The start of the present venture was on© of dif: such as are 
1 of travel■ 
day morning and by Tuesday noon 1 had matters fairly well under control. 
It "as necessary to ship the field outfit to Ai nte by coastal 1 unch 
and 1 thought I was lucky when I learned that one w I safe on Thrusday 
so I hustled around and got the gear on 'board# He were supposed to follow 
by local air service on Sat. lay morning,, flying t .iretrip at Boeas 
del Toroj about .10 miles from hers* When 1 returned to the hotel from 
sarned that a DC-5 had sli .1 off 
runway at Boons and the field would os closed for soheiulad flights in— 
ieljr* 1 then made arranger the%iush 
that held everyth Monday 
. 
to the United Fruit- Company which has its headquarters for this aroa hero. 
The manager has assigned us a very nice throe room apartment o.lfL. bath 
ground so that I 
. i work. room?. 
can see fro®, ay ex¬ 
perience of the last week. There is no true# dry season aid I find to my 
t the birds ar© quit. 
Is no use gettin ;ot to look for them. I tried that a 
couple of days ago sad came home at noon as wet as though I had been in 
a r riih five birds to ,h 1 of I had shot b the rain 
started* However# sunny day© intervene and it will be on those days that 
I shall gst my specimens. 
I have made a reconnaissance through the lowlands clear to the Co#ta 
Rican boundary and find that oat of my collecting will lie around Almirante 
Bay and the Ohiriqul Lagoon- Tap level country to the north has been com¬ 
pletely denuded for banana and erEher plantations so that birds are available 
only in a few areas* Incidentally# Ifbund a flock of about 200 tree swallows 
which is, I beliee* the first record for this North America migrant south 
of Nicaragua. There were also numbers of our migrant rough-winged swallows 
