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not certain. No account of the trip has been published but an itiner- 

 ary may be worked out roughly from published dates connected with 

 specimens. As there is an overlapping in dates in some cases it ap- 

 pears that the two collectors were separated occasionally. Follow- 

 ing is a digest of available dates: Puerto Plata November 12, 1882 

 to January 30, 1883 ; Magua January 7, January 26 to February 1 ; 

 Samana January 8, March 12 to April 27, June 1, 2, and 25, Septem- 

 ber 1 to 11 ; La Vega July 9 to August 15 ; Almercen, or Villa Rivas, 

 August 21 to 29. In La Vega, in May, 1927, Wetmore met by chance 

 an old gentleman who had been Cory's host and hunting companion 

 in that region, who still recalled his skill as an unerring shot. The 

 results of the prolonged work of Cory's two expeditions included 

 descriptions of a number of new forms, and were embodied finally 

 in an illustrated work on the " Birds of Haiti and San Domingo " 

 which was published in four parts, beginning in March, 1884, and 

 completed a year later. This covers 111 species, most of the peculiar 

 forms of the island being illustrated in color, with descriptions and 

 brief notes on habits. 



In June and July, 1883, Dr. W. L. Abbott came to Samana Bay in 

 the Dominican Republic and there made a considerable collection of 

 birds that he presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phila- 

 delphia. He collected at Samana, Las Canitas (the present day San- 

 chez), and at Sabana la Mar, securing representatives of about 42 

 species. These specimens have been examined in part in the prepara- 

 tion of the present report. 



In the Ibis for 1884 (pp. 167-168) Canon Tristram published a list 

 of 29 species of birds from the Dominican Republic received from 

 Mr. C. McGrigor. No localities are cited, but from the published 

 catalogue of Tristram's collection it appears that McGrigor collected 

 at Samana, definite dates noted being April 25 and September 10 and 

 12, 1883, and January 11, 1884. There is listed also a skin of Galyp- 

 tophilus taken at Arenoso March 23, 1884. In addition Tristram 

 received a number of birds collected at Almercen, or Villa Rivas, 

 in 1886 and 1887 by A. S. Toogood who is believed to have been a 

 missionary. 



L. Gentil Tippenhauer of Port-au-Prince in his work entitled Die 

 Insel Haiti, published in two parts in 1892, and reprinted in one vol- 

 ume in 1893, gives a list of birds of the island compiled mainly from 

 literature but including a few original observations made during a 

 long residence on the island. 



On August 20, 1892, Dr. Ernst Hartert observed and collected in 

 the vicinity of Sanchez while his steamer lay at anchor off that town. 

 A few notes appear in his account of his early journeys, the actual 

 date of his visit having been furnished b}^ Doctor Hartert in a recent 

 letter. 



