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Cienaga. — More properly San Juan de la Cienaga, a city of between 

 fifteen and twenty thousand inhabitants, twenty miles by rail south 

 of Santa Marta, on the coast just at the eastern edge of the Cienaga 

 Grande. Wyatt spent a few hours here on December 23, 1869, and 

 refers to the abundance of various species of herons and shore-birds 

 observed at that time. Mr. Smith's party spent a few days here in 

 September, 1898, obtaining several species of shore-birds, several of 

 which have not been recorded elsewhere in this region during migra- 

 tion. The junior author collected here also on October 18, 1913, taking 

 specimens of Charadrius semi pal mains and Thalasscus maxim us. 



Cienaga Grande. — The name applied to a large brackish lake in the 

 delta system of the Magdalena River, fed by offshoots from the main 

 channel of that stream, and by the streams draining the western slope 

 of the Sierra Nevada. It is separated from the sea by a low strip of 

 sand, the Isla de Salamanca, leaving the main passageway at the 

 eastern end. The surrounding country is low and marshy, and fre- 

 quently overflowed. 



Cincinnati. — A large coffee-plantation, or " hacienda," the property 

 of the Cincinnati Coffee Company, lying on the western slope of the 

 San Lorenzo de Santa Marta, between the altitudes of 3,000 and 

 5,500 feet, and thus involving both the Tropical and the Subtropical 

 Zones. This plantation was formerly known as Valparaiso (the old 

 Spanish name), under which it appears in the list of localities visited 

 by Mr. Smith. At that time it was but a small clearing, while today 

 it is the largest coffee-plantation in the region. Mr. Smith's party 

 spent considerable time here, using it as a base for all their work in 

 the highlands from March to June, 1899. Here it was, too, that the 

 junior author began his work in this region on June 1, 191 1, and 

 where he continued to work at intervals up to the latter part of July, 

 1913, securing in the aggregate a very complete representation of the 

 avifauna of the locality. 



Cinto. — A locality on the north coast, near the head of a bay of the 

 same name, where Mr. Smith's party collected a few hawks and herons 

 in February and May, 1899. 



Concha. — A small bay northeast of Santa Marta, into the head of 

 which empties a small stream, Quebra Concha, flowing through a short 

 valley. Here is a small stock-farm belonging to a resident of Santa 

 Marta, a cart-road, built in 1914, leading out to it. Mr. Smith's col- 



