complicates this, to grips with now involve the--AYRES: Did you see wi May I interrupt for a second, any signs of birds whose tail feathers or wing feathers were vn fF YW NW of course, the real differences that we have to core lost later on because of beta burns? CONARD: ocUCf I'm trying to The feathers would protect the skin from peta burns, AYRES: 12 I don't think we have, recall. Oo lm A DONALDSON: i'm just wondering whether the feathers themselves might have been burnt? DONALDSON: ‘The birds that survivea two or three i3 14 days almost invariably were in good shape. 15 housekeeping somewhere else, except for those-that can't fly, 16 the young birds, 17 TAYLOR: They set up Didn't some of the birds, because of ex- 18 posure to the thermal radiation, lose their ability to shed 19 water so that they couldn't swim? 20 DONALDSON: 21 TAYLOR: 22 Are these birds that normall;; would fish by landing in the water and then diving? 23 24 Yes, DONALDSON: They simply pick them off, they don't dive, 25 TAYLOR: 26 DONALDSON: I see, The major other problem I guess one 27 might call attention to at this point is that we are dealing 28 in really two environments: 29 the other animils essentially living either terrestrially or 30 in the aquatic environment, 31 that existed immediately is that there is the stratification 32 of the fallout into a finite layer essentially on the terres- 33 trial area where there is a three-~dirensional distribution The birds living in both, but And the quite obvious situation Stafford Warren — DOEUCLA /7