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collecting done by Mr. Smith and by the junior author has been on 

 the Cerro Quemado and western slopes, the eastern part, however, 

 having been worked from October 31 to November 4, 1920. The lo- 

 cality " San Lorenzo," as used by Mr. Smith, refers to a point on 

 the Cerro Quemado some eight miles by trail from Cincinnati. Most 

 of the birds so labelled were taken 500 to 1,500 feet below the summit 

 at that point; they were shot in May, 1899. The junior author has 

 also done considerable collecting at intervals in this same part, work- 

 ing right up to the summit, where he succeeded in detecting a number 

 of species with which Mr. Smith did not meet, among others a fine 

 new species of Hcmispingus. 



San Miguel. — The largest village, and one might say the headquar- 

 ters today of the Arhuaco Indians of the Sierra Nevada. It is situatea 

 on the right bank of the Rio Macotama as one ascends, at an altitude 

 of 5j5°o feet, on a small bench jutting out from the side of the moun- 

 tain two hundred feet above the river. The mountain rises abruptly 

 behind it to the west to an elevation of not less than 9,000 feet, and 

 is entirely bare of woodland. Opposite the village, and a little lower 

 down, is a larger plateau, extending farther up the river. Here the 

 Indians have numerous small farms, where they raise sugar-cane, 

 sweet potatoes, yucca, bananas, platinos, aracache, onions, etc., while 

 the side on which the village lies is given over to pasture for their 

 cattle. The mountain also rises very abruptly on the left side, and is 

 wooded from the plateau up to near the crest, which is overgrown 

 with shrubbery and huge bromelias. This wooded slope extends up 

 along the river past Macotama to a point where the river swings ab- 

 ruptly westward toward the Snow Peaks, where it is replaced by 

 grassy slopes, which run right up to the paramos. Mr. Brown made 

 San Miguel his headquarters for some time on both his trips to these 

 mountains. The junior author used it as a base for all the work done 

 on the heights above, on the Cerro de Caracas, in March and April, 

 1914. The village itself lies in the Subtropical Zone, while the moun- 

 tains on either side reach upward into the Temperate and Paramo 

 Zones. 



San Salvador. — A river on the north slope of the Sierra Nevada, 

 between the Rio Palomina and Rio Ancha. There may be a village 

 of the same name, since Sharpe records a specimen of Setophaga ver- 

 ticalis collected by Simons at such a locality, but its position is not 

 known. 



