Mammals eaten by Indians, owls, and Spaniards in the coast region of the Dominican Republic (with two plates)

Abstract

In February and March, 1928, I visited the Samana Bay region, northeastern Dominican Republic with the special object of obtaining remains of mammals in the Indian deposits that had been previously examined by Gabb in 1869-1871 and Abbott in 1916- 1923. I was accompanied by Mr. H. W. Krieger, who had charge of the strictly ethnological side of the work. Together or separately we obtained material from six localities: four on the south shore of Samana Bay, one near Samana town, on the north shore of the bay; and one, a large Indian site at the mouth of the Rio San Juan, on the Atlantic coast, across the peninsula from Samana. At all of these localities we obtained many bones of mammals fromthe heaps of Indian refuse...