THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN EEPUBLIC 21 



other points. His published list includes 36 species, and there are 

 numerous references to birds throughout the text of his book Beneath 

 Tropic Seas. 



In the summer of 1927 Prof. Stuart T. Danforth of the University 

 of Porto Rico made an extended journey through Hispaniola between 

 June 14 and August 10, collecting birds at numerous localities. From 

 June 14 to July 27 he was accompanied by Frank P. Mathews whose 

 skins came to the American Museum of Natural History, and from 

 July 2 to August 10 by John T. Emlen, jr., whose specimens are in 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. The party traveled 

 by motor car principally, working near Santo Domingo City from 

 June 14 to 18, near Monte Cristi until June 28, with visits to an irri- 

 gation project at Vasquez and to Laguna del Salodillo near the Hai- 

 tian frontier. June 29 and 30 they were near La Vega, returning then 

 to Santo Domingo City until July 2. From July 4 to 7 the party 

 worked at Higiiey, Seybo, and Hato Mayor, and from July 9 to 11 

 near San Juan. July 12 they crossed into Haiti at Belladere and con- 

 tinued by way of Las Cahobes to Port-au-Prince. July 15 they trav- 

 eled by airplane to Anse a Galets on Gonave Island, remaining there 

 until July 20, collecting between that village and fitroites, with one 

 trip to Boucan Legume. From July 22 to 24 Mathews and Emlen 

 visited Kenscoff, while Danforth worked the Etang Miragoane, 

 Fonds-des-Negres, Aquin, and Les Cayes. July 28 and 29 Danforth 

 and Emlen continued to St. Marc, collecting at the Etang Bois-Neuf 

 south of that town, and at the Artibonite River to the North. July 

 31 they were at Cap-Ha'itien, and August 2 and 3 at the Citadelle 

 above Milot. On August 4 they crossed the border into the Dom- 

 inican Republic at Dajabon for a second short stay at Monte Cristi, 

 and on August 7 were near Bonao as the guests of Doctor Ciferri. 

 Work was concluded at Santo Domingo City August 10. The com- 

 bined list of birds observed as published by Danforth includes notes 

 on 121 forms. 



James Bond, research associate of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, engaged in extended ornithological investigations 

 in Haiti from December, 1927, to June, 1928, during which he covered 

 the principal geographic divisions of the Republic. During the last 

 of December he worked in the vicinity of Port-au-Prince, and in Jan- 

 uary was occupied in two excursions into the Massif de la Selle, the 

 first to Morne Tranchant in the vicinity of Kenscoff and Furcy, and 

 the second to Morne Malanga and Gros Morne in the Crete a 

 Piquants group at the western end of the La Selle mountain forma- 

 tion. He also visited Jacmel and worked along the sea coast to 

 Marigot. Later he traveled into the eastern part of the La Hotte 

 region and worked in the swamps of Trou Caiman. During Feb- 



