SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
Hikolski Village, Umnak Is. 
14 September 1964 
Dear Maryanna; 
The Aleutian Phase is finally in the Aleutians, but in this terrible weather 
we are unable to do much. It has been raining and blowing steadily for the past 
3 days, nevertheless, we've collected and put up series of 10 song sparrows and 
10 varying lemmings ( Dicrostonyx groenlandicus stevensoni ), as well as individual! 
of a number of other birds while here. I hope that our shipments of specimens of 
a few days ago arrived in good condition. 
On our voyage down from the Pribilofs we noted slender-billed shearwaters by 
the thousands, and a few fork-tailed petrels, Oceanodroma fareata, as we neared 
the Aleutians. There are some turnstones here, but we have not seen any of our 
painted ones. On St. Paul about 1 Sept. Ford Wilke saw one of our painted ones 
from St. George and on 7 Sept, I saw another of these "reverse migrants", an im¬ 
mature, at Lukanon Rookery on St. Paul. The two islands are 40 miles apart. 
Tomorrow, if the plane can get in, I will go to Dutch Harbor to look for and 
ask about painted turnstones, while lax continues to Anchorage to take care of ou: 
business there. I will also spend 2 or 3 days at Cold Bay where Max wixl join me 
on the 21st to fly the next day to Adak. While one of us takes the long cruise 
on the "Kelas", the other will work the western Aleutians from Adak to Attu. By 
then it will really be winter up here and we might as well retire to Washington 
and the "South Seas". 
The McBee# Cards and franked envelopes we requested have not arrived; if 
they have not yet been sent, please send them marked "Hold for Smithsonian Party, 
A.dalc, Alaska. 
Sincerely 
O J 
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J, Vincent Hoeman 
Pacific Project - Div. Birds 
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