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grass. Cattle were grazing not far from the laguna in another 

 part of the same little valle}-. There were several smaller boggy 

 streams and a second smaller swampy spot. The water of the 

 laguna was clear and cold. 



Liberia. — Capital of the Province of Guanacaste, on the right 

 bank of the Rio Liberia. Altitude 500 feet. East of the town the 

 river has sand}^ and clayey banks, 15 to 20 feet high in low water 

 in January, 1910, and sandy beaches, few rocks. On January 

 10, 1910, collected along the river and alang a road running from 

 the left bank of the river between pastures and waste land ("char- 

 rals"). 



Peralta. — The railroad station is at an altitude of 1088 feet. 

 All of my collecting was done at nearly this altitude. Tropical 

 forest with very tall exogenous trees and many palms (both kinds 

 hung with lianas, ferns and mosses) comes close to the tracks. 

 The railroad is near the Rio Reventazon and only a few feet higher, 

 so that in floods the tracks are covered with water. Monkeys, 

 armadillos, toucans, parrakeets and basilisks observed in the 

 vicinit}'. 



Puntarenas. — -The principal seaport of the Pacific coast and 

 terminus of the Pacific Railroad, at the tip of a sandj' peninsula 

 between the Gulf of Nicoya and the ''Estero." Two kilometers 

 inland from the two is a mangrove swamp, the trees about 15 

 feet high, the soil between them firm enough to walk on in Febru- 

 ary 2, 1910, w^hen we collected there and also on the sandy beach 

 of the Gulf of Nicoya. 



Ouebrada de Panteon de Liberia. — A small brook flowing 

 along the south side of the cemetery of Liberia (hence the name), 

 hardly five minutes walk north of the town. The little ravine has 

 rock}^ banks of volcanic material, said to be pumitic in character, 

 whose surface is black when simply exposed to the weather, but 

 which by wear is white and breaks down into a white sand. Here 

 and there are sandy beaches. The rock of the bottom is grooved 

 or worn into holes, some of them apparently pot-holes. Some of the 

 grooves, a foot or more in depth, have been made or deepened bj^ 

 man. At the time I visited it (January 12, 1910). the water was 

 more or less separated into pools, although still flowing slighth'. 

 Banks shaded with low trees and slirubs. Altitude al)oat 500 

 feet. 



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