COPY. 
Jarabaooar 
Domingo. 
Oct. 13* 1916. 
Dear Diohmond:- 
P-as glad to get your letter about Raven’s stuff, F.e did not seem 
to P:et an^rthing new however. I am rotnrning from the highlands of San Domingo and 
‘beautiful country,'- it is. Knot pine forests corerinK the mountains. Splendid 
climate. Ha‘'.'‘e got at least two new*? birds. One (one specimen) a large blackish 
owl (440 ran. long) witli small head and long ear tufts., andfa white winged cross- 
bill. This last (one pair only) is doubtless coninon though I actually saw no others. 
, 
I had heard of a •'’■erj' small "parrot" which lived in flocks in the pines on the pine 
cones. I suspected a crossbill — said to '^cctir about here at Jar^bacoa, belov/ 2,000 
feet, but the pair I shot were at near 5,000 feet. Have not got the Ifyiedestes, 
though we often heard them, g;oing on back to Sanchez in a few days* and expect 
to take steamer for Dew York in abont three weeks or less, Dill bring specimens 
back v/ith me. Ma.mnals iiave been a failure, neither the ’’Jiivon” Solenodon, nor the 
’♦Hutia” Plagiodontia, are anything like extinct* but I never had the luck to get 
any or has any one caught any ^or me. Yliey seen generally distributed and the mon- 
goose does not seem to destroy them (nor rats either) — a few bats and introd.uoed 
rats are all I hpy^e got. Am getting some Indian stuff, fragenentary pottery* stone 
tomahawks etc. Hope the first stuff I sent you a month ago has arrived all right. 
'^^erv truly yours, 
C- V ▼ 
(Signed) 
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V • 
T 
Abbott, 
