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Peruvian Amazon. His fish collections constitute the largest part of Cope’s 
material, and the largest collection made in Peru prior to our own. 
The 1870's will be noted principally for two projects, the first being the two 
journeys of James Orton. He again descended the Napo to the Amazon, thence 
to Nauta, Lima, Arequipa and Lake Titicaca, his material from Nauta and Pebas 
reported on by Cope and Gill. His work came to an untimely end with his death 
at Puno, Lake Titicaca. While working about Puno, I frequently passed the lonely 
islet in Puno Bay where lie his remains, a happier resting-place with its reedy shores 
and the plaintive voices of the waterfowl than the sacred but now crumbling crypts 
of the Puno Pantheon. 
The year 1875 brought Alexander Agassiz and Samuel Garman on a survey of 
Lake Titicaca, from January 1 to March 5, their work dealing in part with the 
fishes. While at Puno I met an old man who had been errand-boy for that expedi- 
tion, and who told naive reminiscences of the event, which loomed large in his 
memory. 
Small collections of fishes from Amable Maria, Tambillo, and Monterico on 
the Tulumayo were published by Steindachner. 
About 1880 Clarence Buckley made “‘rich collections” at three localities in 
eastern Ecuador, Sarayacu, Canelos, and Pallatanga. The materials were worked 
up mainly by Boulenger. Some of it, disposed of to a dealer, found its way to 
Steindachner, including some new species. 
At approximately the same time a Dr. A. Stibel traveled via the Huallaga, 
collecting enroute. Steindachner received 121 specimens from him, assigned to 
55 species. Also at this period Steindachner received from a Herr Stolamann a 
collection of fishes from the basin of the Rio de Huambo and its tributary the Rio 
de Totora, Callacate, ete., of the middle Huallaga basin. His artist now visited 
the settlement of Monterico (Custos L. Taczanowski) obtaining some of its scanty 
fauna. 
During the 1890’s, and reported by Boulenger, collections were made by Dr. 
Enrico Festa in Ecuador, entering the Rio Santiago, the principal tributary of the 
Alto Maranon, which is in our territory. 
As reported upon by Regan, 1903, the new century opens with a collection of 
fishes in the British Museum made by a Mr. Ockenden on a journey via Tirapata 
to the Marcapata valley. A species of Orestias was described from this material 
by Boulenger, 1902. 
Mr. P. O. Simons was the collector of a group of fishes in the U. 8. National 
Museum from the Perené and elsewhere. 
Dr. Austin Davis dispatched a collection of the fishes of the Cerro de Pasco 
region to the U. 8. National Museum, partially reported upon by Evermann and 
Radcliffe. 
Early in the second decade of the present century some incidental collecting 
was done in the upper and middle Urubamba valley to Santa Ana and the Rio 
Comberciato by Edmund Heller and E. C. Erdis of the Yale-National Geographic 
Society Expedition. The results of that collecting appear elsewhere in this paper. 
At about that time the British Museum received a collection of fishes of the Rio 
Ucayali, made by W. Mounsey, reported by Regan in 1913. Also Miss Lola E. 
Vance (Mrs. Jacob Lievense) collected in the Rio Tarma from Tarma to La Merced. 
