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addition to a few specimens lost from the effects of the join"nev the 

 collection included !•, mammals. 50 hirds. and 17 reptiles that arrived 

 in perfect condition. Among these are a ntimber of very rare species 

 never l)efore exhibited in the Zoological Park. The red-faced spider 

 monkey, black-headed woolly monkey, jjale capitchin, choliba screech 

 owl, Bolivian penelope, short-tailed parrot, Maximilian's parrot, blue- 

 headed parrot, Cassin's macaw, golden-crowned paroquet, Weddell's 

 paroquet, orange-crowned paroquet, and golden-winged paroquet are 

 new to the collection. These and other rarities are mostly from Rio 

 Beni, Bolivia, and the ttpper Rio Madeira. Brazil, localities from 

 which animals seldom find their way into collections. Of special 

 interest also are such rare birds as the festive parrot. .Vmazonian 

 cacique, and white-backed trumpeter, and a number of reptiles. Very 

 few collections containing so many rare species in such perfect con- 

 dition have ever been received at the National Zoological Park. 



The collection of insects secured by Dr. Mann was one of the 

 largest single accessions ever received in the Division of Insects of 

 the National Museum, estimated at 100.000 specimens. Only a small 

 part has yet been examined. Some rare wasps' nests, made of carton 

 and clay, were brought back in perfect condition. Ants received 

 especial attention, and many biological observations were made upon 

 them. 



BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott spent the winter and spring of 1922 in further 

 botanical exploration of the Dominican Republic, and was able not 

 only to rework much of the region about Samana Bay, but to make 

 a thorough investigation of the entire southern portion of the Pro- 

 vince of Barahona, as well as the cordillera north of San Francisco de 

 Macoris. In the Province of Barahona he visited Barahona City. 

 Paradis. Trujin, Enriquillo (Petit Trou), Los Patos, Polo, Maniel 

 Viejo, and Cabral. The first four are small villages on or near the 

 seacoast, south of Barahona City. The land here is for the most 

 part low, rocky, and semiarid. except in the immediate vicinity of 

 occasional springs and streams, but rises rapidly toward the interior 

 to the Bahoruco Mountains. As the rock is limestone, caves and 

 imderground streams are freqtient. One cave in jiarticular, sitt:ated 

 near Los Patos, is regarded by Dr. Abbott as promising valuable 

 results to the ethnologist. Trujin, the most southern station reached 

 on this tri]), is on a large salt lagoon. Llerman's coffee plantatioiL 

 about 1,500 feet above Paradis, is of interest as being the source of 

 earlier botanical collections by von Tuerckheim and by Fuertes. 



