SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
DROPPINGS FROM THE EAGLE'S ROOST 
August 24, 1966 
A -wire in from Max yesterday morning said they have another 
Turnstone picked up, not handed by us. The number is 662-06143 
and they recaptured it on 19 August. A call to the Banding Office 
provided the.information that it’s a Kridler band but that they 
have no schedule on it as yet. The string immediately preceding . 
vas Used in 1964. They've banded 4,402 Turnstones to date and 
are running out of streamers. Max notes that the KeleZihas no 
room for them this year so he and Bob should be back in after the 
first week in September. We hope that Max can make the AOU Meeting 
en route Washington. They've banded three Baird's Sandpipers. 
We forgot to mention that Bill Wirtz came in with Merry the 
Week before last. Bill looks just the same and is still enthusiastic 
about graduate school. 
Last week brought in remarkably little mail which may have 
been just as well because Anne was on leave and we wouldn't have 
gotten around to answering things. She's back now, unfortunately 
not having learned that she's unable to stay out in the sun for 
any length of time as 60 percent of her face has burned awayI 
We hope to see the familiar face again by next week. 
Jan Ely got off on Thursday evening and the latest report 
from Hays or wherever she is now states that she is busily buying 
automobiles! The Elys are going to be car poor apparently. 
We have had no success whatsoever recently in picking up 
. birds recovered by other people at the Department of the Interior 
Mailroom. Mary keeps trudging over everyday and coming back 
everyday with a long face and no report of our birds. It is 
probably just as well that our enormous quantities of Sooty Terns 
do not wander over land masses too readily! 
Chuck and various assistants (mostly Jan Ely) have finished 
measuring two or three of our species of Terns. We moved Keenan 
over to the other side to measure starting today and she's busily 
learning how many tail feathers Terns can have! She said it 
beats doing returns and many of the other things which she has 
recently been doing. This reminds me that things are awfully 
quiet around here this week - Jaye Cee and Bettye are on leave 
and Jan Reese has also left for leave. He volunteered to come 
back off his leave if the 'trunikloads of specimens come in from 
Honolulu by air however. This seems above and beyond the call 
of duty but we appreciate it anyway. 
