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previous by Burbank and Brown. Mr. Miller arrived in Port-au- 

 Prince March 3, 1925, and was located for the following ten days 

 about ten kilometers west of the city near Point Lamentin. Follow- 

 ing this he spent four weeks at L'Atalaye near St. Michel at the 

 western border of the Central Plain, where he explored the bone de- 

 posit located in 1921, and found additional beds of the same material 

 in four other caves in the vicinity. (Pis. 11 and 12.) Included in the 

 large collections obtained were quantities of bird bones, including 

 abundant remains of the extinct barn owl and other species of inter- 

 est. In addition numerous birds were collected, partly through 

 the assistance of Mr. E. J. Sieger, manager of the plantation at 

 L'Atalaye. 



In February, 1928, Mr. Miller, with Mrs. Miller, and Mr. Herbert 

 W. Krieger, Curator of Ethnology in the United States National Mu- 

 seum, came to the Dominican Republic for the exploration of kitchen 

 midden sites in the caves on the south side of Samana Bay, and at old 

 Indian village sites on the Samana Peninsula, Mr. Miller's principal 

 interest being in the bones to be obtained, and Mr. Krieger's in study 

 of the archeological remains. The first explorations continuing from 

 February 19 for about a month, were made in the caves near San 

 Lorenzo where quantities of bird bones were secured with the remains 

 of other vertebrates. (PL 13.) Later beginning about the first of 

 April the old village site of Cacique Mayobanex at the mouth of the 

 Rio San Juan on the north side of the Samana Peninsula was ex- 

 plored, with more bones of birds as a result. Toward the end of 

 April middens at Anadel two kilometers from Samana were exca- 

 vated and additional remains of birds were obtained. 



In January, 1929, Mr. Krieger returned to the Dominican Republic 

 for further archeological explorations, being occupied from January 

 22 to April 1 in the Silla de Caballo range east and south of Monte 

 Cristi, and then making a traverse along the north coast from near 

 the eastern end of the Samana Peninsula to Puerto Plata. The bones 

 of birds obtained as a part of this work were not as abundant as those 

 from previous expeditions but are of importance. He made a further 

 expedition in the first weeks of 1930, working at Constanza and Jara- 

 bacoa and securing quantities of bird bones from Indian village sites. 



To supplement the collections previously made by Dr. W. L. Ab- 

 bott, and to obtain information on faunal areas and distribution for 

 use in reports on the Abbott collections, Alexander Wetmore con- 

 ducted zoological explorations on the island, under the Swales Fund, 

 and through assistance from Doctor Abbott from March 27 to June 

 3, 1927. Following his arrival in Port-au-Prince, and a few days 

 spent in that vicinity, at Sources Piiantes (PI. 7), Mont Rouis, 

 Gressier and elsewhere work was begun on March 31 at Fonds-des- 



