40 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 97 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LOCALITIES MENTIONED IN THE TEXT 
Localities marked with an asterisk (*) are the author’s collecting 
stations. Others visited or seen by the author but where either no squir- 
rels were taken or no collecting at all was done by him are marked with 
a dagger ({). For aid in compiling descriptions of some of the stations 
not visited by the author in the Santa Marta district and in Venezuela, 
information was taken from Carriker, in Todd and Carriker (1922), 
and from Osgood (1912), as well as other reliable sources. Unless other- 
wise indicated, the name of the collector, or remitter, of the squirrels 
examined is given in parentheses at the end of each description. <A - 
complete account of the collecting stations and itineraries of the 
author in northern Colombia will be given in the final report on the 
collection. 
Aguachica (162 meters), 8°18’ N., 73°37’ W., Magdalena, Colombia. A large 
town at the base of the Cordillera Oriental about 14 kilometers east of the 
Rio Magdalena port, Gamarra (Carriker). 
Bondat (50 meters), 11°17’ N., 74°7’ W., Magdalena, Colombia. A small village - 
on the Rio Manzanares, between 8 and 9 miles east of Santa Marta, in the 
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region. The country lies in the semiarid 
coastal belt and is covered, in great part, with dry forest with intervals of 
open grass land on the ridge. Brown collected here, working along the river 
valley and on the mountain slopes to the southeast up to 6,000 feet or more. 
His specimens are all labeled ‘‘Santa Marta” or ‘‘Santa Marta Mountains.” 
This village was Smith’s headquarters. Most of his collecting was done at 
somewhat higher elevations. 
Cartagenat (sea level), 10°26’ N., 75°31’ W., Bolivar, Colombia. Important sea- 
port of the Caribbean. Also, the name formerly applied to the whole of what 
is now the department of Bolfvar. Humboldt landed at Cartagena from Cuba 
on his way to Bogoté via the Rio Magdalena. To escape the bad climate of 
Cartagena while preparing for this trip, he stayed most of the time in the 
nearby village of Turbaco. 
Ciénaga de Gudjaro* (15 meters), 10°87’ N., 75°2’ W., Atl4ntico, Colombia. A 
large shallow lake between Barranquilla and Cartagena, varying from 10 to 
20 meters above sea level, according to season. It is part of the lower Rio 
Magdalena swamplands. The low hills surrounding the lake attain a maxi- 
mum height of 520 meters and are isolated prolongations of the Andean Chain. 
The region is characterized by pastures, palm groves, and patches of low, 
thick, scrubby forest, mainly rastrojo, the whole interspersed with small culti- 
vated plots, chiefly cornfields. Semiarid tropical zone; the dry season lasts 
from the end of November into April. Author’s camp situated on higher 
ground, about 50 meters altitude, near the village of Arroyo de Piedra. 
Cincinnatit (1,480 meters), 11°9’ N., 74°2’ W., Magdalena, Colombia. A coffee 
plantation on the western slopes of Mount Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa 
Marta. It was known as Valparaiso when Smith and Brown collected there. 
Carriker began working there in 1911. The plantation lies between altitudes 
of 900 to 1,700 meters and involves the diy tropical forests as well as the 
humid subtropical forests. 
