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Murphy allowed access to Beck's manuscript journal for information 

 regarding collecting localities. Dr. C. E. Hellmayr has been most 

 helpful in furnishing information regarding specimens in the Cory 

 collection in the Field Museum, and Mr. J. L. Peters has given 

 valuable assistance and data, especially useful from his personal 

 experience in the field in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Ernst 

 Hartert has kindly furnished data on many specimens in the Tring 

 Museum, Dr. Einar Lonnberg has given information regarding skins 

 received from Doctor Ekman and Dr. E. Moltoni has supplied cer- 

 tain data from specimens in his charge. Finally thanks are due 

 Dr. Charles W. Richmond, Associate Curator in the Division of 

 Birds in the United States National Museum, particularly for advice 

 in certain questions of nomenclature. 



METHOD OF TREATMENT 



With each of the forms treated in the annotated list that follows, 

 there is given the current scientific name, with the authority, fol- 

 lowed by the usual English name and the names current locally in 

 Hispaniola in Spanish, French, and Creole where these are known. 

 The first reference to literature that follows, is, in all cases, that to 

 the publication where the form was first described under the accepted 

 scientific name, and includes in parentheses the type locality. There 

 follows a brief synonymy, that includes synonyms where an endemic 

 bird has been redescribed, and that gives the more important perti- 

 nent references to the scientific names or common names under which 

 the form has been recorded from Hispaniola. In parentheses there 

 is included a brief statement as to occurrence or other points of 

 interest in the reference concerned. By consulting this synonymy 

 it will be possible to coordinate names used in the writings of older 

 authors with modern usage where there has been change. There has 

 been no attempt to make the synonymy exhaustive or complete as 

 it is considered that this would be useless labor, but there have been 

 included all references of interest or value, so far as they have come 

 to attention. 



The first paragraph in the general account under each form gives 

 briefly a statement of the occurrence and range so far as concerns 

 Hispaniola. This is followed by discussion in detail of the various 

 records available with what is known of the habits, song, charac- 

 teristics, and other matters of interest. A final paragraph presents 

 in brief form a statement regarding size and color that will be of 

 assistance in identifying the various birds of the island. It is be- 

 lieved that this last will be useful information since there is no 

 compact handbook available that covers the birds of the region. 

 The student will find the Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North 



