SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
24 August 1966 
Dear Jane: 
My Eiy deal* Jane, thank you so much for tae atreaasrs. X 
must confess I damned you for there not arriving last week but 
I love you today again. What actually happened is they arrived 
on the boat last week and the damned Aleuts put them in the ware¬ 
house instead of bringing them to the post office. They found them 
yesterday while sorting food. X was furious Dut didn't make any 
difference at that time. As Bob said, Jane is I! in" again today, 
I have such a reservation about you and Alaska that I automatically 
suspect the worse. But never fear Jane dear even though I think 
you forget us sometimes I still think the world oz you. 
The camouflage netting has not arrived and will prooably be 
on the boat just ooming in. I see its li&fets about 5 miles out. 
I may get a chance to add some more to thjeis alter reading the 
mail. 
We have just been doing great on banding. It is fantastic 
to think that as of today 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. I can't leave before that and couldn't 
arrive at the AOU meeting until the 9th which is no good so will 
not plan on attending. 
I will be sending the live birds out and will wire you the 
flight they are comingin on. It will be HW and will probably 
arrive in DC (Dulles) at5-6 p.m. The sera will be going to 
John Bushman by air mail special delivery umess you wire me 
differently. There isn't time for a letter although you could 
catch me in Anchorage as will be at AERC before I ship it. We 
will have to dry ice it. Also will be shipping some iHTDBen specimens 
and prepared ones at about the same time. 
I think that about covers the minute details, 
the erran but the boat approaches. 
Yours 
Sorry about 
