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Mr. Busck first spent a week on Taboguilla Island, which was at 

 that time uninhabited, and was supplied with provisions by a daily 

 boat from Taboga. It being in the height of the dry season, he 

 established his camp with a mosquito-netted cot, acetvlene lamps, 

 and collecting sheets, halfway up the hillside, with no cover other 



Ik-. 74. ( ocoanut Palms, Paraiso, Panama; one normal, 

 the other denuded by caterpillars. Photograph by Busck. 



than a largo mango tree. He then spent a week on Taboga Island. 

 and early in March went up the Chagres River, making his head- 

 quarters in the gauging station at Alhajuela, and from that point 

 explored the surrounding country, mainly along the tributaries of 

 the Chagres and Chilibri Rivers, and especially the extensive lime- 

 stone-cave region, which he had visited in [911. On this trip he 

 camped on the hanks of the Chilibrillo River under the open sky, 



