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Puerto Plata. San Domingo.  ✓
July 18th 1919
Dear Richmond
Yours of July 5th reached me on board of "Iroquois" on time of sailing. [Tyto  About the egg of "Tyto glaucops" I am not at all sure, it may be a parrots egg. John King brought it to me saying he had got it out of a hollow tree. He had seen the owl fly out of this hollow & he cut the tree down- but the egg was rotten when I got it a week afterwards. It might well have been a parrot's egg as they nest in similar places.] The "Vireo's" eggs were brought to me, & the nest looked like Vireo's - But I am not at all sure the eggs belonged in that nest. I really do not trust what any native says about eggs or any thing else, & too much reliance should not be put in any of my identifications unless I myself get [[strikethrough]] have [[/strikethrough]] get the parent bird.

My gun & cartridges are held up here by the military, but I will doubtless get them in a day or two. I have a spare gun & some cartridges at Sanchez. Am going out to Sosua, 16 miles East, tomorrow. Peters collected there 3 years ago. There is a lagoon of fresh water there & I am hoping for water birds.

Will probably go out to Sanchez by rail in a couple of weeks & will most likely go to Jovero on South side Samana bay & look

Transcription Notes:
Vireo = Vireonidae = a family of birds with many genera found El Jovero in Dom. Rep.