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project will finance, or whether the trip would be counted aa 
leave or not, though I know I waa promised a trip to one 
meeting per year and I didn’t get to anything this year. 
We got the duck pond finished, and ran into a big dis¬ 
appointment . the plastic was 50 by 20 instead of 50 by 50 as 
I had bean led to believe. So I’ve got a 40 by 40 foot hole 
4 feet deep if you can find me anything in a hurry to line it 
with. I saw a tufted duck this past week but never got a shot 
at it. And I think I’ve seen a couple of sharp-tails back, 
but never when I’ve had the glasses with me. 
I knew if I left this till tomorrow I*d think of some 
more things. While servicing the cycle today I discovered that 
one of the chain links Is cracked. So could you please atraail 
me some repair links J and I hope the chain doesn’t break before 
they arrive* Thoyoycle now has 840 miles on it* We don’t take 
it on the beach, arid have had no trouble with it. I reduced 
the gas-oil ratio and it doesn’t foul out the spark plugs as 
quickly anymore. 
I need to send back a lot of frozen birds with Dennis. One 
of the 28 by 28 by 18 ice chests. Our freezer is filled with 
birds and we have an adult seal skin, salted and frozen in the 
station freezer. This latter should go back to tajdLdemy as 
soon as possible. 
We only have 3 whole mist nets left; we’ve banded 17 shore 
birds in 24 days, plus one band recovery, an odd Charadrius ??, 
and several birds in the nets with wings so injured we took them 
for specimens* I hope we can get some more nets pretty soon as 
there are flocks going through here almost every day. We rigged 
up that shorebird trap a!a Stewart of FWS but it hasn't caught 
anything and I doubt that it will* 
TWawda hopes you can find him a heavy-duty woman for when 
ha comes through Bono, For that matter we still need a few out 
here. 
Sincerely, 
William 0. Wirtz II 
Research Curator, Pacific Project 
ec t MS, Washington 
