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Badillo. — One of the principal affluents of the Rio Cesar, draining a 

 large section of the south slope of the Sierra Nevada. Near, where 

 the road from Valle de Upar crosses the river is a village by the 

 same name. 



Barbacoas. — A little village of a half-dozen miserable huts, situated 

 on the road leading south from Rio Hacha, where it crosses the Rio 

 Camarones. 



Bonda. — A small village (originally of Indians, but now of Colom- 

 bians) on the Rio Manzanares, between eight and nine miles east of 

 Santa Marta. It is on the road, or rather trail, which leads to Don 

 Diego and Rio Hacha, and is only about 150 feet above sea-level, but 

 the surrounding hills rise to perhaps 400 feet. It lies in the semi- 

 arid coastal belt, near the junction of the Rio Matajira and, Rio Man- 

 zanares, both of which flow through broad valleys, well wooded, and 

 with many old "rastrojos,'' or tracts of second-growth brush, thus 

 offering a greater diversity of cover and a larger radius of easily 

 accessible country than any other point in this zone. Mr. Brown was 

 located here for the first three months after his arrival in this region 

 in December, 1897, working along the river valley and on the moun- 

 tain slopes to the southeast, up to 6,000 feet or more. His specimens 

 were all labelled " Santa Marta " or " Santa Marta Mountains," how- 

 ever. Mr. Smith with his party arrived on the scene a little later, ap- 

 parently in June, 1898, and made Bonda his headquarters for a long 

 period, the larger part of his collecting having been done at this 

 point, if one may judge from the frequency with which the name occurs 

 on his labels. It is practically certain, however, that a proportion of 

 his specimens so labelled must have actually been taken at a greater 

 elevation. 



Buritaca. — A point on the north coast, at the mouth of the river of 

 the same name, visited by Mr. Smith in September, 1899. It is a 

 region of swampy forest, with open, swampy land along the river, and 

 sandy beaches, where several species of shore-birds were collected. 



Caho de San Juan de Guia. — A cape on the north coast, about seven- 

 teen miles east and a little north of Santa Marta, which marks the 

 eastern limit of the semi-arid lowlands in this direction. 



Cacagualito. — A- small plantation, now abandoned, on the road from 

 Bonda to Rio Hacha. It is situated near the top of the divide beyond 

 the valley of the Rio Matajira, at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It is 



