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 ...

This study of the herpetology has been undertaken for the purpose of advancing the survey of the amphibian and reptile fauna of the Greater Antilles. Of these islands Hispaniola has remained the least known faunistically ...

Mr. Hugh A. Johnston, resident for years near Monte Cristi in the northwestern part of the Dominican Republic, has written me recently that migratory ducks have come to his region in great abundance during the last two ...

In our account of the birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 155: 100, 1931), B. H. Swales and I recorded the Pintail (Dafila acura tzitzihoa) as of uncertain status. Mr. Hugh A. Johnston of ...

Although our knowledge in ornithology of the West Indies (which include the Antilles, Cayman and Swan Islands, St. Andrew and Old Providence, and the Bahama Islands) far surpasses that in any other natural science, there ...

When W. L. Abbott began sending birds from Hispaniola more than 25 years ago, Charles W. Richmond and I recognized that the Brown Pelicans of that island were smaller than those of the southeastern United States and therefore ...