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(Trip to Constanza ejid Neighborhood Cont’d.) 
better do\m at the village of Hondo v/here there vas a large cleared area. 
Arn sure I should have done better and got nore birds lower down the river 
at a lower level as e.t i'ubano where Beck collected. 
10, 1915 . 
Returned to Coistanza. Aratinga chi or opt era was nov/ fairly comnon , 
as the guavas on which they fed were ripe. Streptoprogne zonaris 
raelanotus numerous. 
Ivla;^- 12, 1919. 
Ifarched to El Rio on the uptjer Jiraenoa River (wrongly spelled Emenoa 
in my notes on my first visit). Stayed here eight days. Saw no cross- 
bills, 
a few Loximitris dominicensis} 
obtained one Microligea montana; 
saw' llicroligea palustris. Sav/ at least two kinsis of birds in tliick brush, 
v/hich I failed to get, and could not identify. One riave been , 
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Galyptophilus frij^-ivorus. The other evidently nev/. Fired at it only 
eight feet distant, but ’^covered it^^ with sn intervening tree too success- 
fully, and only a few scattered feathers and no bird remained. 
llay 20, 1919 - To Jarabacoa. 
Ihy 21, 1919 - La Vega. 
Ilay 22, 191S - Sanchez by rail. 
As I do not speak any Spanish, I brought tv/o Samana boys with me, 
one of whom, John King, v/as v/ith i.ie on iry first trip to Constanza, Two 
small tents were carried c^nd we found carriping much the most satisfactory^. 
The hill people are very dirty and verminous, and all the houses contained 
