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Wilson and is still preserved in this Academy, along with Dr. Wilson's 

 other material. (Revue Zoologique, 1847, pp. 67-79.) No further 

 collections were made in the Canal Zone so far as we are aware until 

 the late fifties, when James McLeannan, of New York, who was 

 stationed on the isthmus, began sending specimens to George N. 

 Lawrence, who described them in the Annals of the New York Lyceum 

 of Natural History and other scientific journals, issuing a final cata- 

 logue in three instalments. (Ann. N. Y. Lye. Vol. VII, 1861-2, pp. 

 288-302, 315-334, 461-479, and Vol. VIII, pp. 294-360.) 



During the winter of 1860-61 John R. Galbraith, son of William 

 Galbraith, a well-known New York taxidermist, went to Panama and 

 aided McLeannan in collecting for Mr. Lawrence. Some 390 species 

 in all were obtained by the two collectors and their specimens are 

 now in the American Museum of Natural History. In March, 1863, 

 the noted British ornithologist, Osbert Salvin, visited McLeannan 

 and in that year and later extensive collections were made for him and 

 sent to England, all of which are now in the British Museum with 

 the rest of the Salvin collection. 



An account of the collections sent to him by McLeannan is pub- 

 lished by Mr. Salvin in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London, 1864, pp. 342-373, and covers 272 species. From his intro- 

 duction we learn that at the time of his visit McLeannan was track- 

 master at Lion Hill (Loma del Leon) station on the Panama Railway, 

 the second station after leaving Colon and about ten miles from the 

 coast. It was situated ' 'in the densest tropical forest, so wet that even 

 in the dry season the trails were confined to the low hills, the swamps 

 being impenetrable." Now we learn from Mr. Jewel that this 

 famous locality is swallowed up in Gatun Lake. 



In 1895, the Italian ornithologist Festa made a considerable collec- 

 tion at Punta de Sabana, Darien, and incidentally recorded a few 

 species from Colon and Panama city. 



In March, 1900, Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., spent twenty-eight days at 

 Loma del Leon, collecting for Mr. Outram Bangs, and secured 752 

 skins representing 148 species. He also secured a collection of 86 

 species in the vicinity of Panama city on the Pacific side of the isth- 

 mus, where the country is much drier with a scrubby growth. 



At the same time that Mr. Jewel was making his collection Mr. E. 

 A. Goldman visited the isthmus in the interests of the United States 

 Biological Survey, but with the exception of descriptions of some new 

 species obtained by him his collection has not yet been reported upon. 



Mr. Jewel's collection represents 236 species and was made mainly 



