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been done differently to make their survival rate and feeding so good. 
Maybe we're just lucky this time. 
How was the big fat party that you were going to throw for the 
guinea fowl’? I would certainly like to hear the details of all the boys 
making up this mash to get the crested guinea fowl drunk. I think 
this would be hilarious. 
John, you and I were once talking in front of the fireplace there at 
your house about the "rocket just beginning te go off''. I really do 
believe that it has started to lift off the pad but it seems to be going 
in the wrong direction. We had Russell Arundel, whom I believe you 
remember, call us up one day and say that he'd like to go to Australia 
and take one of my boys with him, so that John Eisenberg's young 
assistant, Larry Collins, got a 5-weeks trip to Australi to study his 
marsupial carnivorous mice, as well as look into ways and means of 
keeping wombats, tree kangaroos, etc. 
Just the other day Woodward & Lothrop, which is a big department 
store here in town, announced that they would like to work on a deal 
of having all sorts of birds in their window the week after Christmas 
next, and that they would send our bird man all over the Orient to buy 
these birds for them, and actually end up in Nairobi. Then I was 
given the "Conservationist of the Year Award'' by the African Safari 
Club. During my meetings with these people one of the men began 
talking up an expedition to Komodo in the East Indies. This thing may 
get serious, which probably means that my newly hired herpetologist 
will take that one. Then we had Clifford Greenewalt come down and 
say that he would like to take one of our men to New Guinea for about 
two months. As you can see, there is lots of smoke rising up all 
over the place but we don't know exactly what will happen. It's 
interesting that all of these prospects that we have face elsewhere than 
Africa. ButI am still trying to quietly talk up the Ethiopian business, 
so far with no real hot takers. 
Incidentally, on this department store window business, if you all 
want to get involved in it there is the possibility of a nice piece of 
change on this. This would be merely having birds on hand ready for 
shipment at the time that Kerry Muller and George Payne arrive. 
George is the department store executive who will be going on this 
bird-buying exped tion, and he is interested in seeing much of Asia, 
and since he has never been to East Africa he thought they should 
have a window full of African birds. Boy, wouldn't this be a great 
thing for the superb starlings and some of the other types of starlings 
that you have over there, as well as some of the other very beautiful 
birds. Kerry is working up his lists of birds, exhibition and how 
they should be taken care of, so we will give you more information on 
that at a later time. This will all take place in October, For once in 
our lives we seem to be doing a little prior planning on these crazy 
trips. 
John Eisenberg reports from Ceylon that things are going well for 
him, although there are a lot of administrative headaches. It is all 
