NO. 5 MAMMALS OF PANAMA — GOLDMAN 1 5 



II a. m., June 23, and continued by rail to Empire early in the after- 

 noon. The rainy season being- well advanced, preparations were 

 made to return to Washington. On June ij I sailed from Cristobal 

 on the steamer " Allianca," arriving at New York the afternoon of 

 July 3, and Washington the evening of the same day. 



WORK CONDUCTED BY OTHERS 



The observations of Lionel Wafer, on which he based his quaint 

 description of the Isthmian fauna in the latter part of the 17th 

 century, furnished for more than 150 years about all that was known 

 of the mammals of the region. While the rich avifauna began to 

 attract attention about the middle of the 19th century, the mammals 

 have, until recently, been neglected ; the specimens available for 

 study being limited to a small number taken incidentally by residents, 

 travelers crossing the Isthmus, exploring parties, and collectors who 

 devoted their chief attention to other branches of natural history. 



Among the earlier workers was Mr. Thomas Bridges, who ar- 

 rived at David, Chiriqui, in January, 1856, and remained there 

 until March collecting orchids, also obtaining five species of 

 mammals, as recorded by Sclater (1856, p. 139). Another early 

 visitor to western Panama was the Danish traveler, Andreas Sandoe 

 Orsted, for whom the titi monkey of the region was named by 

 Reinhardt (1872, p. 157). 



Enrique Arce, a native of Guatemala, collected for Messrs. Osbert 

 Salvin and F. Du Cane Godman in Guatemala and Costa Rica, and 

 proceeded about 1865 to Panama, where several years were spent 

 in collecting at various localities in the vicinity of Santiago and in 

 northern Veragua. About 1869 or 1870 he visited David and the 

 Volcan de Chiriqui. His collections were mainly of birds, but a few 

 mammals were sent to the British Museum. 



It was not until the year 1900 that mammal collecting by modern 

 methods began in earnest. In March of that year Mr. Wilmot W. 

 Brown, Jr., who was employed by Edward A. and Outram Bangs, 

 began work in Panama that was prosecuted with remarkable success 

 for about a year and a half. Very large bird collections made by him 

 did not preclude the accumulation of extensive series of the 

 mammals. Mr. Brown's first station was Lion Hill, on the Panama 

 Railroad, where, however, few mammals were obtained, the locality 

 being of special ornithological importance. The period from the 

 latter part of April to the middle of May was devoted to a trip to 

 San Miguel, the largest of the Pearl Islands in the Bay of Panama, 



