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Jarabacoa: San Domingo.
Oct. 13, 1916.

Dear Richmond:-
Was glad to get your letter about Raven's stuff. He did not seem to get anything new however. I am returning from the highlands of San Domingo and [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] a very beautiful country it is. Knot pine forests covering the mountains. Splendid climate. Have got at least two new? birds. One (one specimen) a large blackish owl (440 mm. long) with small head and long ear tufts., and [a white winged crossbill. This last (one pair only) is doubtless common though I actually saw no others. I had heard of a very small "parrot" which lived in flocks in the pines on the pine cones. I suspected a crossbill--said to [[strikethrough]]accur[[/strikethrough]]occur about here at [[strikethrough]]Jarebacoa[[/strikethrough]]Jarabacoa, below 2,000 feet, but the pair I shot were at near 5,000 feet.] Have not got the Myiedestes, though we often heard them. Am going on back to Sanchez in a few days, and expect to take steamer for New York in about three weeks or less. Will bring specimens back with me. Mammals have been a failure. Neither the "Juvon" Solenodon, nor the "Hutia" Plagiodontia, are anything like extinct, but I never had the luck to get any or has any one caught any for me. They seem generally distributed and the mongoose does not seem to destroy them (nor rats either)--a few bats and introduced rats are all I have got. Am getting some Indian stuff, fragmentary pottery, stone tomahawks etc. Hope the first stuff I sent you a month ago has arrived all right.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) W.L. Abbott.