NATURALISTS OF BARTICA 41 



Indians were only partly real, most of the danger being 

 purely imaginary. 



Lloyd, an amateur naturalist, who has written pleas- 

 antly in Timehri, lived for some time at Kalacoon, and im 

 Thurn in his "Among the Indians of Guiana" gives the 

 excellent pen picture of Bartica Grove, written on the oc- 

 casion of his visit in 1878, which I have already reproduced. 



Henry Whitely, an English collector of bird skins, 

 spent some time between the years 1879 and 1884 at Bartica 

 Grove and there collected two hundred and fifty-four spe- 

 cies. His complete British Guiana collections combined 

 with these of Schomburgk number 616 forms. These are 

 enumerated in the various volumes of the British Museum 

 Catalogue of Birds, and in several articles by Osbert Salvin 

 published in the Ibis for 1884. Whitely is the only bird 

 collector who has done any extensive work in this vicinity. 



In 1909 I paid a visit to this region and ascended the 

 Cuyuni and the Aremu Rivers, and subsequently published 

 my observations on the fauna in book form, "Our Search 

 for a Wilderness." Carl Eigenmann in his recent technical 

 volume on the "Fresh-water Fishes of British Guiana" re- 

 marks on page 30, that "a series of collections in fresh water 

 was made at sea-level .... Wismer, Malali and Bartica." 

 He himself did not visit the latter place, and the only other 

 note is a list of thirty-three species recorded from Bartica. 1 



1 Callophysus macropterus Moenkhausia lepidurus 



Pimelodus clarias Creatochanes affinis 



Hemidoras carinatus Creatochanes candomactilatus 



Trarhycorystes obscurus Astyanax essequibensis 



Loricariisthys griseus Holobrycon pesu 



Bivihranchia protractila Chalcinus rotundatus 



Anisitsia notata Metynnis hypsauchen 



Anostomus plicatus Myloplus pacu 



Leporinus nigrotoeniatus Myloplus rubripinnis 



LeporinuR friderici Myloplus rhomboidalis 



Leporinus maculatus Serrasalmo rhombeus 



Leporinus alternus Stolephorus guianensis 



Leporinus fasciatus Stolephorus suranamensis 



Tetragonopterus chalceus Pachypops furcroeus 



Moenkhausia grandisquamis Geophagus surinamensis 



Moenkhausia shideleri Crenicichla lugubris 

 Colomesus psittacus 



