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at the latter place in the summer of 1899 he had a native hunter collect 

 some birds for him at Templado. 



Tierra Nuevaj — A point on the Aracataca River some five or six 

 miles above its mouth at the Cienaga Grande. It is the first high 

 ground met with in ascending the river, that is, ground which is not 

 submerged by the overflow from the Cienaga during the rainy season. 

 Only one trip (October 12, 1913) was made to this point by the junior 

 author, and it was the first of the two places where he succeeded in 

 detecting Hclcodytes nuchalis. The whole region is heavily forested. 



Treinta.- — A dilapidated village, well up in the edge of the foothills, 

 on the trail from Rio Hacha to Fonseca, and about halfway between 

 these two points. 



Trojas de Cataca. — A small, unique fishing village on the edge of 

 the Cienaga Grande at the mouth of the Aracataca River. The houses 

 are all built on piles driven into the mud in four to five feet of water. 

 The inhabitants subsist entirely by fishing, no cultivation being pos- 

 sible oji the shores of the Cienaga for miles inland. It is reached 

 only by sail-boat from Pueblo Viejo or Cienaga. Few land birds are 

 present in the flooded forest of the shore, but water birds of many 

 kinds are abundant along the mangrove-lined shores and up the rivers 

 emptying into it. The birds collected here by the junior author were 

 taken from October 5 to 13, 191 3. 



Tucurinca. — A banana-plantation belonging to the United Fruit 

 Company, situated on the Santa Marta Railway, in the alluvial low- 

 lands east of the Cienaga Grande. A large river of the same name- 

 one of the affluents of the Rio Aracataca, and which rises in the 

 Snow Peaks of the Sierra Nevada, flows through the plantation. The 

 conditions here are very similar to those at Fundacion, and the bird- 

 fauna is the same. Most of the collecting done here (between Sep- 

 tember 15 and 24, 1 91 5) by the junior author was in the forest be- 

 low the plantation, under typical lowland conditions. 



Valencia. — -More properly Valencia de Jesus, a town in the valley 

 of the Rio Cesar, on the road leading southwestward to the Magdalena, 

 about seventeen miles from Valle de Upar. It is given by Simons as 

 a collecting station for several species of birds obtained by him in 

 May, 1879. The junior author made collections a few miles to the 

 westward of this place on August 6 and 7, 1920. 



