REPRODUCTIONS IN DUOTONE 



OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY MEMBERS OF THE COLLINS -DAY 



SOUTH AMERICAN EXPEDITION, GIVING GLIMPSES 



OF TRAVEL AND LIFE IN THE HIGH ANDES 



Tliis expedition, sent out under the auspices of the Americnn Museum of Natural History, was 

 financed by Messrs. Alfred M. Collins and Lee Garnett Day, who generously donated to the Museum 

 on their return zoological collections brought together in crossing the South American continent 

 from MoUendo on the west coast to Pard on the east. The expedition brought back also fifteen hun- 

 dred photographs and ten thousand feet of motion-picture fihii 



FORDING A RIVER IN THE ANDES 



The expedition, when 3000 feet and more above sea level in the Andes, was often obliged to cross streams 

 fifteen or twenty times a day — wide or narrow, shallow or deep with swift current, all flow- 

 ing on their course down from the higher watersheds to make up the river Chapare. 

 A trip that in the dry season might have been made in five days required 

 twenty-four in the rainy season, but had the advantage of allow- 

 ing large collections of Vjirds and mammals to be brought 

 together in a little-known country 



