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Riviere Grand Anse, 25 kilometers in an airline southwest of Jeremie. 

 From December 25 to 28 he collected again at Jeremie, and then 

 moved to Grande Cayemite Island, locating at Anse Masson from 

 January 4 to 14, with a visit to the island of Petite Cayemite on 

 January 13, and one to the vicinity of Les Basses on the coast of 

 the main island opposite Grande Cayemite on January 9. Janu- 

 ary 16 he collected again at Jeremie, and then made an attempt to 

 reach the interior mountain of La Hotte, locating at Moline at about 

 600 meters altitude from January 25 to February 1, and collecting 

 on the hills near-by to an elevation of 900 meters. The little settle- 

 ment in question is about 20 kilometers in an air line east of south 

 of Jeremie in a beautiful hill country where much coffee is grown. 

 It proved unhealthy so that in a few days Doctor Abbott's boys were 

 down with fever, from which one later died, and it was necessary to 

 return. He found the narrow-billed tody (Todus angustirostris) 

 and Swainson's hummer {Riccordia swainsonii) at this point, and 

 reports some pine forest in the vicinity. From February 8 to 10 

 he was again at Jeremie, where he packed his collections and then 

 set out in a small boat for Gonave Island, where he located from 

 February 18 to 28 at La Mahotiere near the middle of the southern 

 coast, where he says the water was very bad. He describes Gonave 

 as dry, with little rainfall, but nevertheless fertile since vegetable 

 gardens and pastures receive moisture from the abundant dew. The 

 coast belt at La Mahotiere was very arid with the hills inland covered 

 with greener and more luxuriant vegetation. From here he pro- 

 ceeded to Port-au-Prince, and March 5 to 10 was occupied near the 

 eastern end of the Etang Saumatre. Following this until March 

 12 he was at Trou Caiman, a short distance away, where he was 

 taken ill and was incapacitated for some time, nearly losing his life. 



At the beginning of February, 1919, Doctor Abbott returned for 

 further work in the Dominican Republic, coming to Sanchez where 

 he located from February 3 to 23, collecting on the wooded hills 

 above town, and in the great expanses of swampy forest in the delta 

 of the Yuna River. (PI. 3.) He removed then to Samana, collect- 

 ing birds March 3 at the Rio San Juan on the north coast, and at 

 Laguna from March 4 to 10. March 16 to 20 he was engaged in 

 ornithological investigations at San Lorenzo on the south side of 

 Samana Bay. 



Following this he made a prolonged trip to the valley of Constanza, 

 proceeding on April 3 by rail from Sanchez to La Vega, where he 

 secured pack horses and continued the following day to Jarabacoa. 

 He arrived at Constanza on April 6, to find that there had been a 

 severe drought in the region extending southward from the town so 

 that food was scarce and cattle in poor condition. The arrival of 



