Wetmore's 'The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic'

Abstract

As is generally known, Dr. Alexander Wetmore has for some time been interested in the bird life of Haiti and San Domingo, and the results of his explorations in the island and his studies of its avifauna have just been published as a Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum. This report owes its inception to the researches of Dr. William L. Abbott, who in 1883 and again from 1916 to 1923 made extensive collections on the island and its adjacent islets, the first collection being presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and those obtained on the later trips to the U.S. National Museum. These latter were partly worked over for publication by the late Bradshaw H. Swales, and his name appears as joint author of the present volume.