AIRMAIL 
Dr. Philip S. Humphrey 
c/o Dr. Robert I. Shop® 
Beldra Virus Laboratory 
Caixa Postal 656 
Brasil 
July 2, 19 & 
Dear Phil: 
A week has flitted by since Hoesan and I got back from Alaska and 
now that things have settled to a dull roar it appears to be as good a 
time as any to brief you on developments. A trip report for the record 
will be completed soon and this together with copies of followup corre¬ 
spondence which you will receive soon will fill you in more completely 
on what was acc 
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dished up north. 
Very briefly, the story is this. We couldn’t uncover a scrap of 
evidence that Central Pacific migrants used the Aleutian Islands in any 
number or any degree of regularity either for assembly grounds, food, or 
for resting. While it goes without saying that scans of the species we 
are interested in must depend upon those islands for spring or fall 
migratory needs it might take several man-years of effort to learn even 
the rudiments of this, travel and extent of area to be searched being 
the problem tney are. So, after talking with Bob jGnes at Cold Bay, 
who could not suggest even one promising lead based on his years of 
familiarity up there, we gave up thoughts of going further out the Chain. 
Bob was our last hope. 
Max and Vin seem enthusiastic thut a really interesting and potentially 
significant, summer's work has been lined up however. The schedule for 
them appears about as follows: July 6 to pi - on St. Paul tasking observations 
and experimenting with bird capture techniques; August - both men on 
St. George all month making observations, capturing, and banding ruddy 
turnstones which occur on the order of thousands or greater, "tens of 
thousands" according to one observer; September - one or both men on 
South West or South East Capes (or both) St. Lawrence Island making 
observations, capturing and banding golden plovers which reportedly 
assemble there prior to migration, at least on South West Cape, 
