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SMITHSONIAN M [SCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 60 



unbroken forest and has a heavy annual rainfall, although at the 

 lower levels it is usually dry from January to April, except for the 

 almost constant fog. The collections secured by Mr. Goldman, 

 which are deposited in the National Museum, include some 800 birds 



Fig. 69. — Forest at 5,200 feet elevation, Pirri Mountains, eastern 

 Panama; composed largely of palms and including many tree ferns. 

 Photograph by Goldman. 



and about 600 mammals. From the studies thus far made upon 

 them, they appear to strengthen the view that the fauna of eastern 

 Panama is South American in its general characteristics. Among 

 them are many new forms, some of which have bent described b\ 

 Messrs. Goldman and Kelson in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 ( '< illecti< ms. 



