I was so busy doing all sorts of things that this didn’t enter my mind but my 
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I have now amassed about £00 file cards for interisland birds that are not in 
the file, I have made a carbon copy of each of these and will send them along as 
soon as I have had an opportunity to go through the entire pile of books that are out 
here from your last shipment, I'm now about 2/3 rds of the way through the ones you 
sent out in the freezer and should be finished in a week or so. After that I'll work 
them for ADP data*. That will take another month or two to complete. I now have a pretty 
good sized pile of material for the ADP system and by the time I have gone through all 
of the books this pile will be three or four times as large. 
The revisions to the species listings did not arrive here in time to give them 
to the SIC trip — as promised. This will become more and more critical as ftPOp re¬ 
place more and more emphasis on the recapture of banded birds. If they don't have 
the information along with them on the trip they will then bring back a horrible 
assortment of half completed and/or horribly screwed-up records. With only five or 
six days between trips (and these consumed by other frantic activities) it means I 
always end up with a pile of records that have to be completed or figured out* In 
the future I may try to have these xeroxed out here if the expense isn't too great 
simply in order to give the outgoing trips as complete and up-to-date a record as 
is possible. I 'll have to talk to Dr. Pyle about this, however. 
Not much happening excdpt that, as usual after a trip comes in, I have a large 
pile of records and odds and ends to sort through and straighten out. These will 
be heading youw way shortly. 
Hope the frozen shipment didn't upset things back there too much, I was in a 
position where I had little choice in what was shipped since the freezer was bulging 
at the seams and more junk was coming in each day, I now have a little room in the 
ireezer but would like to get some more stuff out ox hexo and oac x to you, I still 
have the series of terns that were collected by Grossin on Laysan in June, (About UO 
of these have been put up as skins andd will be shipped, soon). The rest are still 
fozen. (Would you believe frozen?) If you have the room I'd like to send them, 
Sorry about the shipment not getting there when it should 
supposed"to have been completely confirmed all of the ray to 
The reservations were 
illes. No change there. 
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