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2) It is about impossible for me to do any nat. hist work until the war is over, except as a side show. I would have done the Tiburon peninsula (the S.W. of Hayti) the last 3 months - had the war not come. The fauna is different there as we already know, completely cut off from the rest of the island by the "Plaine du cul de sac" at Port au Prince & the chain of lakes -

About the "yellow warbler" - I shot a pair in mangroves at Port á l'Eau not long before leaving - They may be in the last shipment, or they may have got lost.

I am going up into the hills of Pennsylvania this week, looking for "a home", which means a couple of thousand acres of wild land. Then will be ready to go "somewhere" - which may mean Hayti in S. America. Of course Yours Truly is out of military service & probably medical service too - will you be in Washington next week (Sep 9th-16th)? I may come down for the