Article XXXV. REPORT OX MAMMALS FROM T1IL 

 DISTRICT OF SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA. COL- 

 LECTED BY MR. HERBERT H. SMITH. WITH 

 FIELD NOTES BY MR. SMITH. 



By J. A. ALLEN. 



, 

 Mainly through the personal gift of President Morris \\. 



Jesup of the American Museum of Natural History, the 

 Museum has acquired the large collection of mammals and 

 birds 1 made chiefly near the coast in the vicinity of Santa 

 Marta, Colombia, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 

 H. Smith, who, through previous explorations in southern 

 Brazil, the West Indies, and Mexico, had acquired an air 

 world-wide reputation as expert collectors, particularly in 

 entomology, botany, and ornithology. They took with them 

 several assistants, and also made extensive use of the native 

 hunters in securing the larger mammals. The first shipments 

 reached the Museum towards the end of 1898 and during 

 1899 ; a certain number of specimens were selected, according 

 to previous agreement, for the Museum and the others v. 

 held in storage. The final shipment reached the Museum late 

 in 1901, and remained in the original packages till the early 

 part of the present year when, together with the duplicates 

 from previous shipments, they were purchased by the Museum, 

 and the whole collection of mammals became for the first time 

 available for examination. Much use, however, had pre- 

 viously been made of the available portions, as shown by the 

 list of publications based thereon given below. 



The collecting of mammals and birds formed only a part of 

 the grand scheme of a general natural history survey of the 

 whole Department of Magdalena, planned by Mr. Smith, but 

 which circumstances quite unlocked for rendered impossible 

 to carry out, his long and serious illness in the field being 

 soon followed by a political revolution which rendered work 

 impracticable, the immediate scene of Mr. Smith's labors being 



T A set of duplicates was sent, by special arrangement, direct to the Carnegie Museum 

 at Pittsburg, but subsequently most of these came under my observation. 



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