Droppings 
July 18, 1966 
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Letter from Doug today concerns the banded St. George Turnstone 
which was collected on Lisianski on 18 June. The band number is 
712-08013 and it was banded on St. George as an immature 7 August 
1965 . Incidentally, it would probably be advisable to let Doug 
know any time we collect an unusual bird. This bird apparently 
was not reported on a McBee card, on a recovery form or any place 
else except in men's field notes and in the trip report. We had 
read those here and Dr. Humphrey noticed this and asked for the 
banding data for his report to the IOC next week. It would have 
slipped right by us all if he had not noticed it. 
We have a new employee at the BCF Lab in Honolulu - Mrs. 
Pauline Hugh. Mrs.. Hugh worked as a Medical Technician in ChicagD 
before coming to Honolulu. She is our only employee with a good 
reading, speaking, and understanding knowledge of Chinese. We 
got the bad news this morning that Ken Balcomb is classified 1A 
and I don't think that there's anything more that we can do about 
this.'"!’This appeal (the one which we made)was voted down 3~0 by 
the President's Appeal Board, not any local or state boarq. 
Any future planning should consider this. However, in the course 
of checking to find out if there was anything further that we here 
at the Smithsonian could do about this, I found out that Bob DeLong 
had been classified 2A on May Jl, I'm sure this won't make Ken 
feel any better but at least we will no longer have to figure out 
how to get Bob off of the Pribilofs in case he should be drafted. 
Bob, did you know anything about this? We had nothing in our 
records here at all after February 8 and I'd been wondering what 
had happened on it. Everybody has written in commiserating with 
us about the heat - every word of sympathy was well deserved as 
it was hotter and laster longer than most of us can remember. 
Right now we're having lovely weather, however, although it still 
is quite warm. 
If any of you within the United States (not Honolulu or Alaska) 
wish to call in here collect, would you please send the call through 
NAtional 8-l8lO? In this way, the operator that asks you will a& 
you if you will wait for a minute, she will ask for your number, 
she will then get the Federal Telecommunication (lOcents for three 
minutes or something like that) Line, and call you back at your 
number. This should save us a fair amount of money if you can 
just remember to do it. Unfortunately, most of the collect calls 
are from Honolulu and this does not help us at all.with them. 
