68 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 
Mr. Busck first spent a week on Taboguilla Island, which was at 
that time uninhabited, and was supplied with provisions by a daily 
boat from Taboga. It being in the height of the dry season, he 
established his camp with a mosquito-netted cot, acetylene lamps, 
and collecting sheets, halfway up the hillside, with no cover other 
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Fic. 74—Cocoanut Paims, Paraiso, Panama; one normal, 
the other denuded by caterpillars. Photograph by Busck. 
than a large mango tree. He then spent a week on Taboga Island, 
and early in March went up the Chagres River, making his head- 
quarters in the gauging station at Alhajuela, and from that point 
explored the surrounding country, mainly along the tributaries of 
the Chagres and Chilibri Rivers, and especially the extensive lime- 
stone-cave region, which he had visited in 1g11. On this trip he 
camped on the banks of the Chilibrillo River under the open sky, 
