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loaned us when we first arrived. They are all by Paul Griswold Howes (see file). There are 3 reprints from "Natural History." 
Vol XXIX No 6, 1929 "The Mountains of Dominica" is a description of "The Two Highest Mountains in the Lesser Antilles, Diablotin & Trois Pitons"
Vol XXX No 1. 1930  "Wild Life in Dominica"
VOL XXXI No 3  1931  "Boa Constrictors and Other Pets." The Curious Dispositions of Some Island Reptiles - Dominica again.
In "Dominica" Vol 1 No 2 Christmas Number 1934 entitled "Dominica: A Winter Paradise Near at hand."
"Bird Lore" - Official Organ of The Audubon Societies Vol. XXXII No 2 "Notes on the Gray-throated & Other Dominican Hummingbirds."
"Nature Magazine" Vol 18, No 6 Dec 1931. "How the Jungle is Born."
These articles are readable enough and quite interesting to an amateur naturalist such as myself.
Last night Mr Tavernier was telling us about the awful hurricanes [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] the other islands had had but that Dominica never had any. Despite his pep talk, I note that on September 1, 1930 P. K. Agar (a Dominican) records one as taking place. He tells of it in the magazine "Dominica" Vol I No 2.

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One gun signals the approach of the hurricane. The second gun means it is fast approaching. Still & sultry then torrential rain. Worst lasted about 3 hrs. Howes also mentions the destruction he saw caused by the hurricane of Sept. 1928
Howes in one article ^[[insertion]] Vol XXIX No 6 pp. 585 - 610 [[/insertion]] has a picture which is entitled "THE TREMBLEUR" and under this " Cinclocerthia ruficauda, ruficauda" under this "Found only in Dominica is the trembleur, a strange brown bird of the mountain forests .... etc." This conveys an erroneous impression. Erroneous because Trembleurs exist on other islands, namely St Lucia. 
I just remembered that Dick has not mentioned the island Aves in his journal. It is about 100 miles [[underlined]] west [[/underlined]] of here, mostly inhabited by birds and once in a while sloops go over there for guano. We have yet to find any such island noted on a map.
Dick was out a good part of the morning and when he came home, he had our long awaited magazines also a package from Harry Ison.
The candy which he put in the drawer yesterday had attracted numerous ants, so we had to unwrap each piece

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PAUL G. HOWES NATURAL HISTORIAN Cinclocerthia (ruficauda) ruficauda