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A new species of Eleutherodactylus from the Dominican Republic
(1923)
The presence of a new species among a collection of frogs sent to the United States National Museum from Santo Domingo was pointed out to me last summer by Dr. G. K. Noble of the American Museum of Natural History. On his ...
The birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(1931)
The book is an ornithological treatise on the avifauna of the island of Hispaniola (divided between the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean. It is based on the fieldwork carried out, and collections ...
Árboles de la flora dominicana
(1949)
La obra constituye un manual sobre los nombres de las especies de árboles de la flora dominicana, incluyendo sus nombres vulgares y científicos, sinónimos dominicanos y sinónimos latinos.
Nuevas adiciones a la ictiofauna marina dominicana
(1986)
Este texto muestra el inicio de una línea de investigaciones de la ictiofauna marina en la República Dominicana para que este sirva como elemento de apoyo al conocimiento de los peces de este país. Los pocos peces de este ...
Status of the American Flamingo in the Dominican Republic and eastern Haiti
(1979)
Between December 1975 and July 1976 and on 4-5 October 1977 we visited several sites of historical occurrence of the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus tuber) in the Dominican Republic. Here we report on the status of the ...
The Stygian Owl (Asio stygius noctipetens) in the Dominican Republic
(1983)
The Stygian Owl was known on the island of Quisqueya long before Columbus discovered the New World. A carved wooden figure of a bird with ear tufts found in a cave, and an Indian drawing on a cave wall, indicate that it ...
The Least Pauraque in the Dominican Republic
(1979)
The Least Pauraque (Siphonorhis brewsteri) of Hispaniola has been known to science for 62 years. Rollo H. Beck collected the first specimen at Túbano (now known as Padre Las Casas) near Azua in the Dominican Republic ...
Hispaniola's first Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)
(1986)
On December 30, 1984, F. Soriamo, an educator at the Zoological Park in Santo Domingo, brought to me a tiny live rail for identification. It had been caught by a campesino in a field
under plow between Monte Plata and ...
Ecological relationships of two todies in Hispaniola : effects of habitat and flocking
(1996)
We studied microhabitat use, foraging and social behavior of Broad-billed (Todus subulatus) and Narrow-billed (T. angustirostris) Todies in two areas o f sympatry in the Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic. Solitary ...
First records of the Spotted Rail (Pardirallus Maculatus) on the Island of Hispaniola
(1980)
On 17 April 1978, a bird watcher from San Francisco de Macorís brought a live rail to me for identification. He had purchased the individual from some boys who had captured it in a patch of grass in the center of a freshly ...