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ruary he was on Gonave Island at the iDtang Miragoane, and in the 

 arid region about Trou Forban between Mont Kouis and L'Arcahaie. 

 During all of March and a part of April he was occupied in north- 

 western Haiti, where he visited Tortue Island. He ascended Morne 

 Basile and also Morne Haut Piton south of Port-de-Paix. In the 

 latter part of April he traveled through the Cul-de-Sac region to the 

 £tang Saumatre and Lake Enriquillo, continuing to Laguna Limon. 

 In May he crossed to northeastern Haiti and came south from the 

 northern plain through the Massif du Nord to Hinche, ascending 

 Morne Salnave, above Acul Samedi. In late May he was again on 

 Gonave Island, and in early June climbed Morne La Selle, return- 

 ing to Trou Caiman and crossing once more to Gonave. His pub- 

 lished observations contain distributional notes of much value since 

 he visited points not previously seen by ornithologists. His observa- 

 tions are especially valuable for their notes on the nests and eggs of 

 rare native forms. 



Dr. E. L. Ekman, who has explored Haiti and the Dominican 

 Republic botanically more thoroughly than any other naturalist, be- 

 came interested in birds through his contact with Wetmore in 1927 

 when they worked on Morne La Selle, and in 1928 when he made sev- 

 eral prolonged excursions with Bond. In his later journeys Doctor 

 Ekman has collected specimens of unusual and interesting birds, 

 which he has forwarded principally to Dr. Einar Lonnberg, who 

 has named a goatsucker (Antrostomus cubanensis ehmani) in his 

 honor. A collection of about 200 specimens made by Ekman reported 

 on by Professor Lonnberg in 1929 contained representatives of 107 

 forms including skins from Navassa, Gonave, and Tortue, and many 

 of the rarer birds from the main island. Of particular interest have 

 been his notes on the birds of Navassa as most of what is now known 

 of the birdlife of that island is found in his published records of 

 his observations there, and his observations from the higher eleva- 

 tions of the Dominican Republic and the Seven Brothers Islands off 

 Monte Cristi. 



The Crahe Pacific Expedition of the Field Museum under the 

 leadership of Dr. Karl Schmidt visited Haiti in the latter part of 

 1928, including observations on birds in its schedule of investigation. 

 At this writing the extent of the studies made is not known. 



FIELD WORK FOR TIIE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Active participation of the Smithsonian Institution in research 

 in the ornithology of Hispaniola began in 1866 when Mr. A. E. 

 Younglove of Cleveland, Ohio, with Mr. J. H. Beardsley as a trav- 

 eling companion, visited Haiti at the instance of Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, travel- 



