AIRMAIL 
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dUne 26, 1964 
David Hatley 
Dick Merrill 
Smithsonian Party 
US Coast Guard LGRAH Station 
APO 1X35 
San Francisco, California 
Dear Dick and Dave: 
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Ray Jillson left yesterday for Sand although he is stopping In 
Los Angeles for the weekend. He is to bring the albino back with the 
rest of the birds. We have made arrangements to keep it at the National 
Zoo. They do not have any Sooty Terns at all, so I asked if they wanted 
some normal ones also. We can just as easily bring bade eight as we 
can one. Wc are shipping today two of the partitioned bird boxes. Use 
one of them and send the albino plus 7 normal almost flying chicks. They 
didn’t want, adults since they would be harder to keep. Go ahead and get 
7 normal chicks and keep them in the other box until time to be shipped. 
Ibis win get them used to being fed and handled. 
f; to make partitions for the large boxes so that 2 Frigates can 
be placed in on® box. Use the large (4x8*) sheets of cardboard. These 
are going to present a problem when cutting. An electric or hand saw- 
might work. The partitions can be taped in place. 
Ticks ere also desired. These will go to the same place as the 
Frigates and Boobies, They would like another 1,000 if possible, but 
. get as many as you can* The shipment I sent by Ken Amerman survived 
j ^the trip in excellent condition. This was the -method 3 described to 
' Von and which is again discussed in the enclosed "tick collecting" in¬ 
formation sheet. 
I hope you have a large quantity of frozen bird barf so Ray can 
bring some back. It would be better if the packages were small, so 
thawing and refreezing would be no problem. 
Would you finish tailing the black and white roll of film in the 
Project camera and send tbs exposed roll to DC. I will need souks of 
those pictures when I return from my vacation. I’m taking next week off. 
As a matter of fact, I’m leaving this afternoon. 
