VOL. XV, PP. 91-97 APRIL 25, 1902 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THK 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



THE MAMMALS OF MARGARITA ISLAND, 

 VENEZUELA. 



BY GLOVER M. ALLEN. 



During the summer of 1901, my friend Mr. Austin II. Clark, 

 with two companions, visited Margarita Island, Vene/.uela, for 

 the purpose of briefly invest ii^atini* its fauna and flora. 'The 

 only other scientific worker who has visited this island in recent 

 years is ('apt. \Yirt Robinson, l r . S. A., the results of whose 

 observations on the birds in lSl>.", have already appeared.* As 

 there stated by ('apt. Robinson, the island "lies about midway 

 between L:i(iu:iira and Trinidad, and only some 17 miles dis 

 tant from the nearest point of the Venezuelan coast. Its ^reat 

 est length from east to west is l > miles, and its greatest breadth 

 from north to south 20$ miles. It consists of two portions* 

 connected by a narrow isthmus \\] miles in length; the western 

 boinjx an irregular quadrilateral 1'.' miles loni; by l> miles broad. 

 and the eastern a pentagon some 20 miles across. In the west 

 ern portion some almost barren peaks rise to a height of 2300 

 feel". Of 10 species of mammals noted by ('apt. Robinson 

 as oecurrin!'; on the island, specimens of o were preserved, and 

 ;' of these have since been described as new. Mr. (Mark's col 

 lections contained 1 ;" specimens of mammals, represent ins: ^ 



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