64 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 
unbroken forest and has a heavy annual rainfall, although at the 
lower levels it is usually dry from January to April, except for the 
almost constant fog. The collections secured by Mr. Goldman, 
which are deposited in the National Museum, include some 800 birds 
Itc. €9.—Forest at 5,200 feet elevation, Pirri Mountains, eastern 
Panama; composed largely of palms and including many tree ferns. 
Photograph by Goldman. 
and about 600 mammals. From the studies thus far made upon 
them, they appear to strengthen the view that the fauna of eastern 
Panama is South American in its general characteristics. Among 
them are many new forms, some of which have been described by 
Messrs. Goldman and Nelson in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 
Collections. 
