SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
DROPPINGS PROM THE EAGLE’S ROOST 
August 2, 1966 
Well, here we are after another week of Washington heat and 
humidity. We have all survived though but everyone is wishing for 
about a week of steady fain. It is surely needed. 
Jeff Tordoff left the Project last Friday to return to 
Ann Arbor and begin school this fall. He and Binion spent the 
whole week working on the FFS Report which is now completed and 
is being typed. Bob Tuxson left here on Thursday for Honolulu 
with a stopover in Los Angeles. He was due to arrive in Honolulu 
last evening and begin his long-awaited field work for the Project. 
A prospective employee is coming in tomorrow for an interview. 
He is F. C. Thompson who is an entomologist from University of 
Massachusetts. Binion and Jane will interview him tomorrow and 
if things are favorable, he will,be signed on and shipped out to 
the field. We just receive^fliat Dick Maze will be leaving us 
about late August or thereabouts to teach (we think). _ Also, 
poor Ken Balcomb has to report to Uncle Sam on September 7 for 
Army Green. Even though the office staff never met Ken we wish 
him well and are sorry to see him leave. We have another victim 
of "mal de mer 1 ’ - Ralph Schreiber. He left Pago Pago and the SIC 
and returned to Honolulu. We are sure that he will enjoy island 
work and terra firmal 
We had a letter from Dr. Ely yesterday from London. They 
are enjoying.their stay and from all reports he is through being 
speaker #1 at any Congress. The projectionist was late in arriving 
and being the first speaker had to suffer through until all the 
kinks were out of the projector. They also had trouble receiving 
their mail at the Congress. Some of it was misdirected to another 
Congress being held in the same place but eventually the Elys 
tracked down their own mail. 
Jane has been trying all week to obtain a Whaler for the 
Project but at present has had no luck. She spent at least one 
Whole day calling the West Coast speaking with vendors, etc., 
but there is still hope. 
There was a letter from Max yesterday. Their turnstone work 
was delayed because of the weather. They have had five straight 
days of sunshine without any wind which isn't conducive to 
migration. They did however see a total of 395 tumstones and are 
about 3 i° banded as near as they can tell. They report two returns: 
652-494448, Rock Sandpiper, I-U, banded on Zapandi Killing Ground, 
St. George, on 09-01-64; 63-192736, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, A-U, 
banded on St. George on 07-31-64. The Rock Sandpiper was a POBSP 
first. They have banded over 130 Rosy Finches and about 25 Snow 
Buntings and 25 Rock Sandpipers. We are attaching the Alaskan 
Supplement to Droppings "Puffin Poo" which came in yesterday too. 
Also attached are some copies of the new Pay scale which were sent 
to us from Personnel for distribution. 
