NATURALISTS OF BARTICA 41 



Indians were only partly real, most of the danger being 

 purely imaginary. 



IJoyd, an amateur naturalist, mIio has written i)leas- 

 antly in Tiniehi-i, lived for some time at Kalaeoon, and im 

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

 excellent pen picture of 15artica Grove, written on the oc- 

 casion of his visit in 1878, which 1 have already reproduced. 



Henry Whitely, an Knglish collector of bird skins, 

 spent some time between the years 1879 and 1884 at 15artica 

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

 cies. His complete British Guiana collections combined 

 with these of Schombui"gk niiinber ()1() forms. These are 

 enumerated in the various volumes of the British INIuseum 

 Catalos'ue 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 1900 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. ' 



^Cnllojihusii.i nuirroptervs ^focnkhaiisin Ippuiiirtis 



Plmelndus clarias Creatodumes affinii 



Hemldorns carinatns Creatochanes caiidomaculatus 



Trarh'irori/sfr's ohsctints Astyannx essequihens-is 



Lorirariisihjis f/riseus Hnlnhrj/rnn fesu 



Bh'ihranrhia protrartUn Chalriniis rolimdafii.i 



Anltifs-ia notata Meft/niih hi/psavchen 



Anoittomus pUcatus Mi/lophis pacu 



LepnrhiKS nigrotoenuitns M;ilophifi riif>ripivvi.t 



Lejiorlniix friderici ^fi/Jopliis rhnmhnidaJh 



Leporlnus macidatvs Serrasalnio rhomhev.t 



Leporinus alternus Stole phorus guianensis 



Leporinvs fasciatus Stolephorus suranamensis 



Tefrngotwpterus chnlreiiR ParJn/pops furrrnev.t 



Moenkhausia (jravd'mqiifimis GenpluKitis nurinamensls 



Mocnkhausia shideleri CrenidrhJit hif/uhria 



Colomesus psittacus 



