1904.] Allen, Mammals from Santa Marta, Colombia. 415 



As shown by Mr. Smith's list of localities (antea, p. 413) the 

 greater part are near the coast at altitudes ranging from sea- 

 level to about 600 feet; a few are between 1000 and 1500 feet, 

 one at 2000, and three at 4500 to 6000 feet; but probably 

 fully two thirds of the specimens were collected below 1000 

 feet, only a few weeks out of the three years and a half having 

 been spent by Mr. Smith's collectors at altitudes as high as 

 4500 feet. These were all in the San Lorenzo Mountains, the 

 Sierra Nevada de Santa Mart a not being visited. The area, 

 as indicated for me by Mr. Smith on a map of Colombia, is a 

 triangle of which the west side (length about 25 miles) is formed 

 by Magdalena Bay, the north side (length about 30 miles) by 

 the coast of the Caribbean Sea, the other or inland side (length 

 about 40 miles) forming the hypothenuse of the triangle, the 

 whole district probably not exceeding 600 square miles. 



While Mr. Smith was preparing for his exploration of the 

 Santa Marta region of Colombia, it happened that the Messrs. 

 A. E. and O. Bangs of Boston had also been attracted to the 

 same region as one of special interest, and, to the surprise of 

 all the parties interested (cf. this Bulletin, XIII, p. 118), 

 when Mr. Smith reached Santa Marta, after preparations for 

 financing the trip and gathering the necessary equipment, he 

 found Mr. W. W. Brown already in the field in the interest of 

 the Messrs. Bangs Brothers. As, however, Mr. Brown pro- 

 ceeded soon to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, working 

 at altitudes and in a region for the most part above the dis- 

 trict reached by Mr. Smith, there was little duplication of work. 

 Mr. Brown naturally thus obtained a number of species not 

 represented in the Smith material, which, with some others 

 from the coast region, were very promptly made known by 

 Mr. Bangs. In his final paper on the Santa Marta collection 

 of mammals (Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, 1900, pp. 87-102) 

 he records 7 species not contained in the Smith collection, 

 while the latter includes 26 species not in the Brown collec- 

 tion. Some of the larger species obtained by Mr. Brown, as 

 Felis concolor, Fetis onca, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, etc., are, 

 however, mentioned in Mr. Smith's field notes, and for this 

 reason are included in the present paper. 



