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September 12 to IT birds were in poor plumage and difficult to find, 

 with many mosquitoes and sand flies. Catalina Island was visited 

 September 19. Returning to the main island he went into the south- 

 western section of the Dominican Republic, camping from October 

 1 to 6 at Duverge, about five kilometers from the southeastern shore 

 of Lake Enriquillo. Sandpipers and other water-loving birds 

 abounded along the swampy shores of the lake, and many rails were 

 heard. Following this he returned again to the States. 



About the middle of February, 1921, Doctor Abbott returned once 

 more to Haiti, accompanied by Mr. E. C. Leonard of the United States 

 National Museum who engaged in extended botanical explorations. 

 They were occupied in Port-au-Prince from February 19 to 23, and 

 then moved to St. Marc for a few days. March 2 about sundown 

 they arrived at Anse a Galets, a village of a dozen houses on Gonave 

 Island, where they collected until March 14. The town is located 

 near the mouth of a little stream called La Source that rises from a 

 spring in the hills. The small bay here was bordered by mangroves 

 back of which were extensive salines bare of vegetation, rising to 

 ground covered with a dense growth of Prosopis juliflora and numer- 

 ous cacti. Beyond were rugged hills. About eleven on the morning 

 of March 15 they arrived at Etroites farther to the west at Etroite 

 Point, the town being located in a break in the mangrove swamp 

 with a reef offshore. Inland was an open plain, and beyond hills 

 covered with trees and bushes. Work continued here until March 

 22 when they returned to St. Marc, remaining there until March 30, 

 and then removing to Port-au-Prince for the period April 1 to 3. 

 From April 4 to 14 they were at Marmeville, at the eastern end of 

 the Etang Saumatre, where many strong springs of fresh water rise 

 from the earth and after a course of a few rods through boggy 

 meadows empty into the lake. Back of the lake shore the level 

 ground was covered with thorny trees and cacti. April 7 Doctor 

 Abbott collected at Trou Caiman, about one mile southwest of Thom- 

 azeau, where there are extensive swamps grown closely with cat-tails 

 and other marsh growth and a border of open meadowland. From 

 April 17 to May 3 they located at Fonds Verettes in the lower hills 

 of La Selle, where there were dense thickets grown with climbing 

 bamboo and scattered pine trees, though most of the primitive wood- 

 land had been destroyed. On one occasion Doctor Abbott had a 

 glimpse of the thrush afterwards secured by Wetmore {Haplocichla 

 swalesi) but though he returned to the spot several times did not suc- 

 ceed in obtaining specimens. From May 5 to 13 Doctor Abbott and 

 Mr. Leonard were at Fond Parisien on the shores of the fitang 

 Saumatre where they found the weaverfinch and so solved the mys- 

 tery of a supposed colonizing oriole that had been reported from 



