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course of excavations to determine the depth of this material in the 

 Grotte San Francisque they encountered a deposit of bones and 

 brought away a handful or two as samples. In this material which 

 came to the United States National Museum Wetmore found the 

 fragments from which he described the great barn owl Tyto ostologa. 



Emil Kaempfer came in the late .spring of 1921 to Puerto Plata 

 and remained for some time in the Dominican Republic, the birds 

 that he collected going to the Tring Museum. The exact date of his 

 departure is uncertain but Doctor Hartert writes that he collected a 

 pigeon hawk at Moca Januaiw 1, 1924. Kaempfer was engaged prin- 

 cipally in other zoological collecting but devoted considerable at- 

 tention to birds, and has published a general account containing his 

 more interesting observations. He traveled extensively collecting 

 birds on the Samana Peninsula, at Rivas, La Vega, Cotui, Moca, 

 Jarabacoa, Constanza, and Tiibano. 



A small collection of birds of the Dominican Republic has been as- 

 sembled at the Agricultural station at Moca by Prof. Raffaele Ciferri, 

 Director of the station, the specimens procured having been identi- 

 fied by Dr. E. Moltoni of Milan. A brief list of the collection has 

 been published by the collector (see bibliography). In addition to 

 this Professor Ciferri and his brother Ermanno Ciferri, the latter 

 resident at San Juan de la Maguana, have presented to the Museo 

 Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan a collection of three hundred 

 bird skins representing one hundred and thirteen forms which have 

 been the basis of a report by Doctor Moltoni. The work of the two 

 Ciferris has been centered principally about San Juan and Moca, 

 but has included collections from Haina, the Rio Haina and Guerra 

 in the Province of Santo Domingo, San Juan, Sabana San Thome, 

 Sitio de la Maguana, Rio Manade, and Monte Viejo in the Province 

 of Azua, Bonao in the Province of La Vega. Moca in the Province 

 of Espaillat, Santiago in the Province of Santiago, the Seven 

 Brothers Islands off the north coast opposite Monte Cristi, and Beata 

 Island on the south coast. Their investigations as reported by Mol- 

 toni extend from 1925 to 1929, and have added several forms to the 

 list known from the island. 



William Beebe, as director of an expedition of the Department of 

 Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society, worked in 

 Haiti from January 1 to May 23, U>27. Though occupied principally 

 with life in the Mater Beebe made numerous observations on birds, 

 and his published records give considerable useful information. His 

 observations were carried on principally in the vicinity of Bizoton, 

 where his schooner was anchored, with records from the Etang 

 Miragoane, Source Matelas. the various reefs along shore — including 

 those near Gonave Island — the Etang Saumatre, Furcy, and a few 



