lit August 1961* 
Dear Fhil and Canj 
Just a short note to pass on the latest information# I leave for 
D,C. an Koncky but Jan will be taking care of all of the paperwork here 
and will be in telephone contact with me in D,C. in case southing coma 
up that I can help with it. I am meeting with Hr# Bushman on the 19th 
so will have definite word on a bird shipment by the end of next week# 
At any rate there will NOT be an actual shipment (live birds) in til after 
I return to Honolulu September 1*. 
As for the blood work do as much as you can regularly without sacri¬ 
ficing the other data# Especially keep after the Booties and try to get 
at least another hundred but again don’t drop all of the other work fco do 
the blood# After talking to have about ticks we’ve decided to forget about 
ticks on Sand and try to get them from some other colony along the Leewards, 
If none can be collected there you’ll get another letter some day. 
Kill, don’t worry about mounting the plant .material in th® field* AH 
of our plant data will be going to ^ob Long at the U. of Hawaii and they will 
take cars of the mount ng, etc# You can ship them back in newspapers with 
of course full data# 
Either Dave or Larry will be sanding you an ice chest soon# Some of 
the good ones will be coning in from D#C. and we will wait and send down one 
of them rather than the cheap local types. Dave ms also going to send the 
oatraoal, Dave received his orders the day before the plane left and should 
now be on Midway in happy anticipation of banding and recapturing Booties# 
I sure wish he could get one he had banded at Band# 
I received a letter from the agency yesterday with the following request» 
’1) Please obtain ten (10) samples of blood from Booty Toma with one vial of 
whole blood frozen and one vial of scrum from each bird# Th© frozen whole 
blood is to be used for a special test# 
2) Obtain samples of blood from freshly dead birds or any dead birds that blood 
can be obtained from#” 
I interpret this to mean blood from sick or injured birds* Try to get 
the samples over a period of time as you see sick birds if there are any# I 
realise that this is going to be very difficult at this time with the birds 
practically gone but at least scout around and sea if any sick birds are 
available# It would be a good idea to get ten sample* from injured birds 
(broken wings, etc#) Just to be safe and then try for another ten from sick 
birds, DO MOT tell Coast Guard that you are looking for sick birds# kith 
two vials of blood needed any birds sampled will undoubtedly be sacrificed. 
This doesn’t sound toe clear but I hope that you can follow it. 
In other areas not much is new, Beyle loft today to board the GILBERT 
or a * fishing cruise" which should bo quite interesting. There is some 
