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region under consideration was very thoroughly worked by the junior 

 author, his first visit extending from August 7 to 18, 1913, and his 

 second from October 6 to 20, 1915, during which two periods an ag- 

 gregate of nearly eight hundred specimens was collected. 



Gaira. — A small village on the Santa Marta Railway, on a river of 

 the same name, about eight ( ?) miles south of Santa Marta. among 

 low hills not far from the sea. With the exception of the land under 

 irrigation and the narrow valley of the river, the whole region is very 

 arid, with a great deal of giant cactus and thorny scrub. Collections 

 were made here by the junior author on May 21, September 11- and 13, 



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Garupal. — One of the tributaries of the Rio Cesar, in the extreme 

 southern part of the present region. 



Goajira. — The name applied to the peninsula which separates the 

 waters of the Caribbean Sea from those of the Gulf of Maracaibo. 

 It is a low, sandy, arid region, supporting a pure Arid Tropical fauna. 



Guairaca. — A bay on the coast, just west of Playa Brava ; it takes 

 its name from an ancient Indian village at its head. There is a speci- 

 men of Geranospiza ccerulescens in Mr. Smith's collection labelled as 

 coming from this locality, under date of February 4, 1899. 



Guallabal. — Simons, in referring to Calliste desmarcsti, says that 

 it is " very common at Guallabal, near San Antonio." The locality is 

 not referred to elsewhere so far as we can discover, and its exact 

 position being unknown it does not appear on the map. 



Guatapuri. — One of the principal affluents of the Rio Cesar, rising 

 in the Paramo de Chiruqua, and draining a large area on the south 

 slopes of the Sierra Nevada. 



Heights of Chirua. — See Chirita. 



Horqueta. — See La Horqueta. 



Jordan. — A plantation on a stream of the same name, and situated 

 along the trail to Rio Hacha, about two miles east of Cacagualito, at 

 an altitude of 500 feet. It is in a region of heavy forest, just within 

 the humid coastal belt which extends eastward to Dibulla. Mr. Smith's 

 party collected a few birds at this point on May 11, 1898. 



La Conception. — A plantation on the trail from Dibulla to Pueblo 

 Viejo, a few miles below the latter place, where Mr. Brown collected 

 extensively in the early months of 1899, on his second trip to the 

 Sierra Nevada. The altitude is given as 3,000 feet, and both Tropical 



