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The region covered by Mr. Smith's party was therefore roughly 

 triangular in outline, bounded on the west and north by the Caribbean 

 Sea, and on the southeast by the San Lorenzo de Santa Marta. As 

 most of his bird work was done at lower altitudes, and he secured few 

 if any birds above 7,500 feet, it is not surprising that the number of 

 Subtropical Zone forms in his collection is so much smaller in propor- 

 tion than in the lists of Simons and Brown, while Temperate Zone 

 forms are entirely absent. Mr. Smith also depended to some extent 

 on native hunters for his specimens, and as they often made long ex- 

 cursions in search of the same, he could not always be sure of the alti- 

 tude at which a given specimen was taken; nevertheless, the junior 

 author has found his labelling reliable by comparison, save in the case 

 of such specimens as are found marked " Bonda." About forty-one 

 hundred birds in all were returned by Mr. Smith, of which nine hun- 

 dred and ten came to the Carnegie Museum, together with a set (one 

 of each species) of nests and eggs; the balance were acquired by the 

 American Museum of Natural History, whence a considerable num- 

 ber have found their way into other collections by exchange. It so 

 happened that Mr. Brown's collections began to reach Boston and be 

 reported upon long before Mr. Smith's were received at New York ; 

 in fact Dr. Allen's paper on the latter did not appear until August, 

 1900, and his supplementary report not until October, 1905. After 

 making the necessary corrections in these two papers, and listing the 

 additional species represented in the Carnegie Museum by specimens 

 received from this source, we find that Mr. Smith sent in no less than 

 three hundred and fifty-four species from this region, of which as 

 many as one hundred and thirty-two had not been previously recorded 

 by Messrs. Simons or Brown. In view of the fact that he did so little 

 work outside the Tropical Zone, and that his general area of opera- 

 tions was restricted, this was doing very well. A special collection of 

 birds of prey made by him for the Carnegie Museum is unusually fine 

 and complete, including several rare species. A careful count shows 

 that there are no less than thirty-two species which are attributed to 

 the Santa Marta region solely on the strength of specimens received 

 from Mr. Smith. A considerable number belonging to this category 

 are here recorded in print for the first time. 



In connection with his report on the Smith collection proper Dr. 

 Allen undertook to collate the records of Messrs. Simons and Brown. 





