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Sanchez.   San Domingo.  

Sep. 2d - 1919

Dear Richmond 
I delivered 2 boxes to agents of Clyde S.S.C. today addressed to Museum to be sent by earliest available steamer to New York. That will be about 10-12 days hence.

It is a poor lot of stuff. I went first to Sosua 17 miles east of Puerto Plata & staid there 10 days with Morris Peters, the uncle of the young man who collected there 3 years ago. The neighboring country was open grass land & sugar cane, abandoned banana cultivation. The place still belongs to the United Fruit Co.

[Limpkins (Aramus pictus) were very common & I shot a number.  The males (possibly females also) have a queer conformation of the trachea - convolutions like a crane - they have a very loud call. Kŭ-ráw, Kŭrráw. Whence their Dominican name. Sent several dry preps of trachea & one wet. I would have sent whole bird in rum, but had no container & no rum.]

[Guinea fowl Numida were very plentiful]. Birds generally were scarce & the savanna sparrow was wanting probably all former forest land, in spite of the large stretches of grass land now existing. The man who accompanied Peters said it occurred near Cape Cabrera.

Nun is a large lagoon west of Sosua, but we did not succeed in reaching it. Jungle has grown up thick. Birds are said to be scarce upon lagoon. Iguanas said to occur.

Transcription Notes:
Nun[[?]] lagoon - could not find males and females are represented through symbols