ART. 25] NOTES ON HISPANIOLAN BIRDS — WETMORE AND LINCOLN 15 



Dr. Carl Colvin, acting director of the Service Technique, a friend 

 of long standing, and Commander G. A. Duncan, of the Travaux 

 Publique, gave much valued aid. 



In our work in the Dominican Republic, we have, first of all, to 

 acknowledge the interest of Gen. Rafael TrujUlo, President of the 

 Republic, who personally issued us permits for our firearms and gave 

 us letters that were passports in our entry into the Republic and in 

 our travel there subsequently; without this authority our work would 

 not have been possible. At Barahona we were received with the 

 greatest courtesy by Frank Warmoth, in charge of the establishment 

 of the Barahona Co., and by his assistants John L. Segall and George 

 Hamor, who entertained us during our brief stay in Barahona and 

 assisted in arrangements for our trip to Beata. 



Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Parish, friends who met us on our arrival in 

 Port-au-Prince, were interested in all details of our investigations. 

 In Mr. Parish on several expeditions we had a companion whose 

 assistance was most valuable and who shared with us the vicissitudes 

 of difficult travel with never-failing good nature. 



Finally we must acknowledge our indebtedness to many friends 

 and acquaintances in both Republics who gave Idndly aid in the 

 peculiar work of two strangers from a foreign land. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF BIRDS 



Order COLYMBIFORMES 

 Family COLYMBIDAE, Grebes 



PODILYMBUS PODICEPS ANTILLARUM Bangs 



Antillean Grebe 



Podilymbus podiceps antillarum Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 4, 

 Mar. 31, 1913, p. 89 (Bueycito, Province of Orients, Cuba). 



On March 31, 1931, half a dozen grebes were seen on the Riviere 

 Estere, near Pont de I'Estere. It is interesting to note that Des- 

 courtilz^ reported this species as common near this same point in 

 April, 1799. 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES 

 Family PROCELLARIIDAE, Shearwaters, Fulmars, and Petrels 



PUFFINUS LHERMINIERI LHERMINIERI Lesson 



Audubon's Shearwater 



Puffinus Iherminieri Lesson, Rev. Zool., vol. 2, 1839, p. 102 ("ad ripas antil- 

 larum"). 



In the morning of May 10, 1931, three shearwaters came near our 

 sloop when we were 5 or 6 kilometers northeast of Beata Island, and 



3 Voyages d'un naturaliste, et ses observations, vol. 2, 1809, p. 264. 



