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rain was coincident with his coming so that supplies gradually be- 

 came more plentiful. He was accompanied by John King and 

 another black boy from Samana. On April 15 he marched to a clear- 

 ing known as " Boho Kali " (spelling uncertain, the first being pos- 

 sibly Bohio, this meaning a hut) said to signify the " place of the 

 vine," at 1,500 meters elevation on the slopes of the Loma Rio 

 Grande southeast of Constanza and about 7 kilometers distant in an 

 air line. There it rained constantly and was very cold with morn- 

 ing temperature about 50° Fahrenheit. Many thousands of acres of 

 pineland had been burned over during the preceding drought to make 

 green feed for a few head of stock with much injury to the pine 

 forests, as undergrowth was destroyed and the vitality of the larger 

 trees injured. It was reported that plantations did poorly here as 

 they were killed by frost in winter. The siskin {Loximitris domini- 

 censis) was common in flocks, the birds being in molt at that season. 

 April 24 Doctor Abbott returned to Constanza, and April 28 crossed 

 the high ridge to the southward to a clearing 10 kilometers distant 

 known as Corralito, where he camped among the pines 450 meters 

 above the narrow valley of the Rio Grande. He remarks that the 

 country reminded him of Kashmir. On May 3 he continued 10 kilo- 

 meters farther to the little settlement of Hondo on the Rio Grande, 

 camping between one and two kilometers above Hondo Aba jo in a 

 small grass grown clearing surrounded by thick scrub on a bluff 

 above the river. Three si^ecies of swifts were seen here and the notes 

 of nightjars were heard regularly. He speaks of one goatsucker 

 that he did not secure, with a peculiar flight that reminded him of 

 the course of an Australian boomerang. On May 10 he returned to 

 Constanza where he found paroquets feeding on ripening guavas. 

 May 12 he continued to El Rio to search for crossbills, which he did 

 not find, and remained for eight days, coming on May 20 to Jara- 

 bacoa, May 21 to La Vega, and May 22 to Sanchez, where he re- 

 mained until about June 1, returning then for a brief period to the 

 United States. 



In August of that year Doctor Abbott was again in the Dominican 

 Republic, collecting from August 11 to 21 on the eastern end of the 

 Samana Peninsula. On August 11 and 13 he worked at Laguna, 

 August 12 at the Pilon d'Azucar, August 16 to 19 at Puerto Rincon 

 on the bay of that name, and August 21 at Puerto Frances south of 

 Cap Samana. Laguna del Diablo, where he took numerous water 

 birds during his various stays in this general region is a small lagoon 

 in the interior hills a few kilometers west of Rincon. In September 

 he began work on islands off the southeastern coast, visiting Cata- 

 linita Island September 11, where he found a colony of brown peli- 

 cans and saw barn swallows and kingfishers. On Saona Island from 



