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Constanza San Domingo

May 11th 1919

Dear Doctor

Yours of Mar. 8th re the proposed New Guinea collecting reached me several weeks since. I dont think I can about doing any thing in the matter. Everything is so unsettled & uncertain & the income taxes damnable, if necessary, so I dont want to commit myself to additional expenses until I know just where I stand in the world. 

This trip has turned out next door to failure. No mammals & no new birds - couldn't find any of Beck's 3 birds except the ground dove, of which I got a pair. They were very scarce where I was, & are not common here. [Streptoprocne   Have seen a good many of the big swift & missed some shots at them. Saw a lot this a.m. - too high.] No crossbill so far.

Return to El Rio tomorrow where I print found them 3 years since.
Expect to return to New York next month.

The climate & country are perfectly beautiful - strangely like Kashmir on
the S. side of the divide. Of course no snow here.

Hope the 3 or 4 boxes shipped early in April have long since arrived. 

Best wishes
Yours truly
W. L. Abbott

P.S.[I saw or & heard several nightjars over in the Rio Grande Valley, including
Nyctibius but got none]. However have got a few odds & ends.

Transcription Notes:
Possible species names that I'm not aware of. -- found and verified