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Schmidt, of Madison, Wisconsin; and Mr. Daniel Clark, of Chicago) 

 had established headquarters at Tiquisate, a plantation of the 

 United Fruit Company, on the Pacific plain of Guatemala. There 

 they were joined by Mr. Leon Mandel, of Chicago, sponsor of the 

 expedition; Dr. M. G. Krai, accompanied by Mr. Henri Bogner- 

 Mayr as general assistant, both of Chicago; and Mr. Richard 

 Madler, of New York, photographer. The main party was engaged 

 in hunting, in collecting birds and reptiles, and in photography for 

 ten days on the seacoast below Tiquisate, while Mr. F. J. W. Schmidt 

 collected mammals and reptiles at Olas de Moca, the coffee plan- 

 tation of Mr. Teodoro Englehardt, where later the entire party 

 was cordially entertained. 



After arranging for the shipment of a number of live animals 

 obtained for the Chicago Zoological Society, the party returned to 

 Guatemala City, and Mr. Mandel visited the highland village of 

 Chichicastenango. He was recalled to Chicago on account of the 

 sudden death of his mother on January 20. 



Messrs. Karl P. and F. J. W. Schmidt, and Mr. Blake collected 

 at Santa Elena, a high mountain station near Tecpam, in January 

 and early February. They were entertained by Mr. Axel Pira, 

 whose sawmill, in the cypress forest at an altitude of 9,500 feet, had 

 been a collecting station for Field Museum collectors in 1905 and 

 1906. From Santa Elena, they traveled by motor truck over the 

 highland to San Marcos, where they had been invited by Mr. H. 

 Goebel, of the Central American Plantations Corporation, to make 

 the great coffee plantation "El Porvenir" their base for the 

 zoological exploration of the Volcan Tajumulco, the highest moun- 

 tain in Guatemala. Collections from El Porvenir, made at 3,400 

 feet, and from camps at 7,000, 10,400 and 13,000 feet, will form the 

 basis for detailed studies of the extremely interesting and well- 

 defined life zones of this great mountain. 



Subsequent collecting stations, chosen to represent the diverse 

 environmental regions of Guatemala, were at El Rancho, in the 

 desert along the Motagua River; Salama, the high desert of Baja 

 Vera Paz; the limestone cave region of Alta Vera Paz, in the vicinity 

 of Coban; and the lowland forest on the Caribbean side, revisited 

 before sailing from Puerto Barrios to New Orleans. 



Notable among results of the Leon Mandel Guatemala Expedi- 

 tion is the exhibition material collected for three groups of birds for 

 the proposed Hall of Foreign Birds. Two species of toucan, repre- 

 senting one of the most distinctive groups of birds in tropical Amer- 



