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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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Standing up high above this desolate region is the great rocky peak of 

 Mt. Chiriqui, which I believe I am the only man to have climbed. The 

 summit is a towering rock, its extreme point so sharp and narrow that I had 

 to straddle it. Under one foot was a sheer fall of some 900 feet, under the 

 other a sharp slope of 600 or 700. I found no signs of any previous ascent, 

 but left two records of my own visit. From the top I looked down on the 

 waters of the Caribbean Sea and of the Pacific Ocean, seeing distinctly the 

 indentations of both coasts. To the west I could see the Costa Rican 

 Mountains, and to the east stretched an ocean of small peaks. My aneroid 

 registered 11,500 feet. 



This zone seems to be representative of the several boreal life 

 zones recognizable in North America, but its exact relation to them 

 remains to be determined. 



Mammals of Temperate Zone 



Reithrodontomys australis australis, Irazu 

 Harvest Mouse (occurs also in upper 

 Tropical Zone). 



Reithrodontomys creper, Chiriqui Harvest 



Mouse. 



Scotinomys xerampelinus, Chiriqui Brown 



Mouse. 

 Sigmodon austerulus, Chiriqui Cotton Rat. 



Birds of Temperate Zone 



Chlorwnas albilinea crissalis, Costa Rican 

 Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Selasphorus torridus, Heliotrope-throated 

 Hummingbird. 



Casmarhinchos tricarunculatus, Costa Rican 

 Bell-Bird. 



Empidonax atriceps, Black-capped Fly- 

 catcher. 



Planesticus nigrescens, Sooty Thrush. 



Catharus gracilirostris accentor, Chiriqui 

 Nightingale Thrush. 



Thryorchilus browni, Brown's Wren. 



Ptilogonys caudatus, Costa Rican Ptilogonys. 



■'hainoptila melanoxantha, Salvin's Ptil- 

 ogonys. 



Basileuterus melanogenys exitnius, Chiriqui 

 Warbler. 



Diglossa plumbea, Costa Rican Diglossa. 



Chlorospingus pileatus, Sooty-capped Chlo- 

 rospingus. 



Junco vulcani, Volcan Junco. 



Lycopodium chiricanum. 

 Lycopodium hippuridium. 

 Dendrophthora biserrula. 

 Dendrophthora costaricensis. 



Plants of Temperate Zone 



Dendrophthora wrightii. 

 Maytenus blepharodes. 

 Arcytophyllum lavarum. 



LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF PANAMA 



Chironectes panamensis. 

 Didelphis marsupialis etensis. 

 Didelphis marsupialis particeps. 

 Didelphis marsupialis battyi. 

 Marmosa mexicana isthmica. 

 Marmosa mexicana savannarum. 

 Marmosa fulviventer. 

 Marmosa invicta. 

 Metachirus opossum fuscogriseus. 

 Metachirus nudicaudatus dentaneus. 

 Philander laniger derbianus. 

 Philander laniger pallidus. 

 Philander laniger nauticus. 

 Peramys melanosis. 



Bradypus griseus griseus. 

 Bradypus ignavus. 

 Cholarpus hoffmanni. 

 Cyclopes didactylus dorsalis. 

 Tamanduas tetradactyla chiriquensis. 

 Myrmecophaga tridactyla centralis. 

 Dasypus novemcinctus fenestratus. 

 Cabassous centralis. 

 Trichechus manatus. 

 Pecari angulatus crusnigrum. 

 Pecari angulatus bangsi. 

 Tayassu pecari spiradens. 

 Odocoileus chiriquensis. 

 Odocoileus rothschildi. 



