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| name             = The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
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| author           = [[Alexander Wetmore]] & Bradshaw H. Swales
| illustrator      = [[Allan Brooks]]
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| country          = United States
| language         = English
| series           = Bulletin of the United States National Museum 155
| subject          = Avifauna of Hispaniola
| genre            = [[Ornithology]]
| publisher        = [[Smithsonian Institution]]
| pub_date         = 1931
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| media_type       = Print (paperback)
| pages            = 484
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| dewey            = 598.297293
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'''''The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic''''' is a book published as no.155 in the [[zoology|zoological]] [[monograph]] series ''Bulletin of the United States National Museum''.  It was authored by [[Alexander Wetmore]], with the assistance of Bradshaw H. Swales, and was published by the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in [[Washington DC]] in 1931.  It is in [[octavo]] format (248 x 156&nbsp;mm) and contains iv + 484 pages bound in a grey paper cover.  It includes 26 [[black-and-white]] plates, both of paintings of the birds by [[Allan Brooks]], and of photographs of the habitat.
The book is an [[ornithology|ornithological]] treatise on the [[bird|avifauna]] of the island of [[Hispaniola]] (divided between the nations of [[Haiti]] and the [[Dominican Republic]]) in the [[Caribbean]].  It is based on the fieldwork carried out, and [[Collection (museum)|collections]] made, by various expeditions there, especially those of [[William Louis Abbott]], and of Wetmore himself.
The first 57 pages of the book are taken up by accounts of the [[physiography]] of the island, the history of ornithological exploration and of fieldwork for the Smithsonian Institution there, as well as a general discussion of the avifauna.  This section also contains notes on adjacent islands including [[Gonâve Island|Gonave]], [[Tortuga (Haiti)|Tortue]], [[Cayemites|Grande Cayemite]], [[Saona Island|Saona]], and [[Navassa Island|Navassa]].  The rest of the book comprises individual accounts of the bird species recorded from Hispaniola, ending with a comprehensive [[bibliography]] and [[Index (publishing)|index]].
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[[Category:1931 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Ornithological handbooks]]
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[[Category:Books about the Dominican Republic]]
[[Category:Books about the Caribbean]]
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