DEPARTMENT OF MINES 
CANADA 
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CANADA 
Ottawa, Canada 
Jan. 17 1935 
Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
New S6ils Building, 
Univ. of Wisconsin, 
Dear Prof. Leopold;- 
Regarding the 1932 invasion of Sharp-tailed Gu 
Grouse.7Mr. L.L.Snyder    has been-working  this up   at the 
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, therefore I have not interfered 
K'     i~   in the subject. I think you can get any information from him.

You are at libetty to quote anything I said regarding our 
specimens, I do not think it will anticipate anything he may 
have to say on the subject. 
It is too bad that a properly equipped biologist   could 
not have been sent to the ground immediately on receipt of 
the information  of the invasion to study  the inevitbble 
disapearance of the birds. It was a great opportunity. You 
know that in some of the small northern viliages the birds 
were salted down by the barrel, an enormous peak population. 
Sincerely,-