Droppings 
August 30, 1966 
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Yesterday's mail brought a letter from Max and we qoute: 
"we have just been doing great on banding. It is fantastic to think 
that as of today (24 August) we have nailed over 5500. That is new 
banded birds. We have handled nearly 6000 birds so far. We are 
anticipating about 7000 total new banded before we finish up. It 
is fairly definite (as Alaska goes) that we must be ready to leave 
St. George by September 6." He goes on to say that a shipment of 
live Buddy Turnstones is arriving to go to the Zoo here in DC. 
Speaking of shipments - we recently sent a shipment to Honolulu 
and never received word of its arrival there. Yesterday Jan Reese 
began tracking it down only to find that it had been shipped to 
Honolulu and was returned about two weeks ago to Shipping because 
the address on the shipment and the address on the Invoice were 
different. Jan made all the necessary changes on this shipment 
and with luck it should eventually get to Honolulu. Jan has 
asked us please to pass the word on to everyone in the field 
that when you degrease a bird, please write on the back of the de¬ 
grease tag exactly what it was degreased with. Again on the 
subject of Jan - he is going out to Dulles this evening to pick 
up a large shipment of frozen birds which are arriving at 8 PM 
from Honolulu. 
A note from David Bratley some time back stated that he 
was planning to attend the AOU Meetings. Now we hear that he 
has a job with the Department of Conservation, State of Wisconsin. 
We wish Dave all the best. 
We will now close with the following recovery to report: 
747-56685 - Lesser Frigatebird - A-F, banded on Phoenix 07-13-64 
was found at Rabaul New Britian. Letter was dated August 18, 1966. 
As both legs were off or broken the bird is presumed dead. 
On the lighter side: 
Herb Church returned on Sunday after three-to-four weeks 
touring the Orient. He stopped in Hawaii enroute and spent an 
enjoyable afternoon with Dr. and Mrs. Pyle. Mrs. Pyle took him on 
a tour of the island. What is this we hear about an Escort Service 
being located directly across the hall from the Honolulu Office - 
no wonder Larry Huber has decided to stay with the Project for 
another few monthsI Also, now we realize why the cries for money 
have subsided from the field personnel.'.' We never heard this bit 
of news from anyone stationed in Honolulu and we thank Herb for 
passing on this tidbit. Jane is not feeling so kindly towards him 
however. It was 1 Tight When he took off for three and a ha l f 
weeks on his trip while" Shfe-was here at woik, and even though he 
tw» back with gifts of beautiful Jewelry for her, she can never 
forgive him because in Honolulu he saw a Red-footed Booby J 
