I received this from Paul Buckley. If you have any reasonably good photos
of these gray-bellied birds (most likely from Padilla Bay), Paul would very
much appreciate seeing them. Please write him directly.

>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:35:28 -0400
>To: dpaulson at ups.edu
>From: "P. A. Buckley" <pabuckley at gsosun1.gso.uri.edu>
>Subject: Funny brant
>
>I am working on a paper on the various taxa of brant for NORTH
>AMERICAN BIRDS, and am wondering if you or any colleagues have any
>photos of West Coast brant. I am especially seeking good pix of those
>peculiar greyish-bellied birds from the Melville Island area that
>winter in Puget Sound.
>
>In advance,thanks for any and all assistance.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>Dr. P.A. Buckley
>Box 8 at Graduate School of Oceanography
>University of Rhode Island
>Narragansett RI 02882 USA
>
>401-874-4201 (office)
>401-874-6887 (fax)
>
><pabuckley at gsosun1.gso.uri.edu>


Dennis Paulson, Director phone 253-879-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 253-879-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416
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