MAMMALS OF PANAMA 



By EDWARD A. GOLDMAN 



Assistant Biologist, Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of 



Agriculture 

 (With 39 Plates) 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction 4 



Field investigations 4 



Work conducted by author 4 



Work conducted by others 15 



Acknowledgments 18 



Physiography 19 



Faunal relations 23 



Life Zones 25 



Lower Tropical Zone 26 



Humid Lower Tropical Zone 31 



Arid Lower Tropical Zone 34 



Savanna area and semi-forested savanna borders 36 



Upper Tropical Zone 38 



Temperate Zone 41 



List of the mammals 42 



General account of the mammals 44 



Bibliography 23$ 



Index 267 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

 PLATE S 



PLATE PAGE 



i. Map of Panama showing life zones Frontispiece 



2. Fig. 1. — Camp on Cerro Azul. Fig. 2. — Field party resting on slope of 



Cerro Azul 4 



3. Fig. 1. — Rio Indio, a small tidal tributary of the Rio Chagres near 



Gatun, Canal Zone. Fig. 2. — Tidal forest along lower course of 

 Rio Chagres 5 



4. Fig. 1. — Forest along lower course of Rio Chagres, Canal Zone. 



Fig. 2. — Forest, extensively invaded by tide, along lower course of 

 Rio Tuyra 6 



5. Fig. 1. — Tidal forest, largely mangroves, near Porto Bello. Fig. 2. — 



Tidal forest interior near Porto Bello 7 



6. Fig. 1. — Old line of Panama Railroad, abandoned and nearly sub- 



merged by rising waters of Gatun Lake. Fig. 2. — Gatun Lake with 

 water rising 8 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 69, No. 5 



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