NOTES ON THE HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



MADE BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT ON THE 



ISLAND OF HAITI 



By Doris M. Cochran 

 Aid, Division of Reptiles and Batracliians, United States National Museum 



For the past thirty-five years Dr. W. L. Abbott has enriched the 

 collections in the United States National Museum by frequent con- 

 tributions of the results of his collecting expeditions in various parts 

 of the world. Since 1916 he has turned his attention particularly 

 to the island of Haiti, from which he has sent much valuable material, 

 including many new or rare species of animals and plants. 



During the summer and autumn of 1916 Doctor Abbott collected 

 natural history specimens on the Samana Peninsula in northeastern 

 Santo Domingo. This trip proved so beneficial to the needs of the 

 National Museum that Doctor Abbott has returned to the island each 

 year. His second trip was made during the first six months of 1917 

 when he secured many specimens from Tortuga Island and from the 

 northern and northwestern parts of the Republic of Haiti. In 

 November of the same year he made a third trip, this time covering 

 southwestern Haiti and Cayemites Island. From February to Octo- 

 ber, 1919, he visited the Samana Peninsula once more, and worked 

 to the southwest toward Duverge. In the spring and early summer 

 of 1920, Doctor Abbott visited Gonaives Island and some small 

 villages in the vicinity of Furcy, Haiti. The three expeditions taken 

 since that time have all been to the Samana Peninsula, from which 

 district very rich collections have been secured where formerly few 

 specimens had been obtained. 



ELEUTHERODACTYLUS WEINLANDI Barbour 



One specimen (U.S.N.M., No. 65709) collected at Las Caiiitas on 

 February 27, 1923; one (No. 65054) at Laguna in May, 1923, and 

 three (Nos. 65706-65708) at Samana and Laguna in March, 1923. 

 Our specimens agree in color-pattern with the figure published by 

 Schmidt,^ but the disks on the toes of our specimens are somewhat 

 larger than those of the figured specimen. 



iBull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1921, vol. 44, art. 2, p. 8. 



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