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Speciation, heterochrony, and genetic variation in Hispaniolan Palm-Tanagers
(1990)
We documented levels of genetic variability for two species of Hispaniolan palm-tanagers. Significant differences between age classes in levels of genetic heterozygosity were concordant with an age dimorphism in foraging ...
Notes on the birds of Hispaniola
(1929)
During the summer of 1927 the author spent the period from June 14 to August 10 on the island of Hispaniola….......From July 4 to 7 we collected at Higüey, Seybo and Hato Mayor in the eastern part of the island, and from ...
Behavioral and morphological correlates of heterochrony in Hispaniolan Palm-Tanagers
(1994)
We documented the occurrence of heterochrony for morphological and behavioral characters in two species of Hispaniolan Palm-Tanager.
Discovery of breeding Black-capped Petrels on Hispaniola
(1964)
The status of the Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata), which formerly bred on several West Indian islands, has been obscure since late in the nineteenth century, when the location of the diminishing breeding colonies ...
Nidification of the passerine birds of Hispaniola
(1943)
When I began my survey of the avifauna of the West Indies in 1927 very little was known of the nesting habits of the birds of Hispaniola, and I tried to fill this gap during the nine months that I spent on the island. It ...
First nest record of the White-winged crossbill in Hispaniola
(1975)
On 2 April 1971, while we were camping in southwestern Dominican Republic above El Aguacate in the Sierra de Baoruco (the eastern extension of the Massif de la Selle, the only known crossbill location in Haiti), one of us ...
Two new ferns from the Dominican Republic
(1924)
An additional lot of ferns received on loan from the Berlin Botanical Museum includes two new species, which are described herewith. One of these, represented by an identical specimen in the U. S. National Herbarium, had ...
A second Anolis lizard in Dominican amber and the systematics and ecological morphology of Dominican amber anoles.
(1998)
A fossil Anolis lizard in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History is the second anole preserved in amber from the Dominican Republic (Miocene epoch) to be studied...
A new subspecies of Turdus swalesi (Aves, Passeriformes, Muscicapidae) from the Dominican Republic
(1986)
A new subspecies, Turdus swalesi dodae. is described from the Sierra de Neiba and Cordillera Central of the Dominican Republic. The arid Cul-de-Sac Valle de Neiba depression forms a barrier between T. s. swalesi of the ...
A new nematode of the genus Diplotriaena from a Hispaniolan woodpecker
(1934)
The species of nematode described in this paper was collected from the body cavity of a Hispaniolan woodpecker killed near Santa Barbara de Samaná, Dominican Republic, by E. W. Price.