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NORTH: AMERICAN BIRDS COLLECTED AT SANTA 
MARTA, COLOMBIA. 
BY J. A. ALLEN, 
In a collection of about 3000 birds made for the American 
Museum of Natural History in the Santa Marta district of Co- 
lombia, under the direction of Mr. Herbert H. Smith, during the 
period from May 4, 1898, to September 7, 1899, are many species 
of North American migrants, quite a number of which have not 
been previously recorded from this portion of South America. 
Although a report on the collection as a whole has recently been 
published,! it may interest many readers of ‘The Auk’ who are 
not likely to see this report, to have placed before them a list of 
the North American species, with the dates and places of 
capture. 
Credit should be given in this connection to Mrs. Herbert H. 
Smith, already so well known as an experienced ornithological 
collector in various parts of tropical America, for the formation of 
this valuable collection. The localities at which the following list 
of North American species was obtained are nearly all in the low 
coast region near the town of Santa Marta. The list embraces 
only North American migrants, and does not include such North 
American species as are also resident and breeding birds in 
Colombia. Those marked with an asterisk (*) were not previ- 
ously recorded from the Santa Marta district of Colombia. Cien- 
aga, where most of the shore birds were taken, is on the coast, 
about twenty miles south of Santa Marta. This is apparently the 
only point on the seashore where collecting was done, and only 
about a week was spent at this point. No thorough collecting for 
water birds on any part of this portion of the Colombian coast 
has thus far been done. 
1 List of Birds collected in the District of Santa Marta, Colombia, by Mr. 
Herbert H. Smith. By J. A. Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII, 
pp. 117-183. August 25, 1900. An annotated list of 388 species. 
