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mountainous country, with forest and clearings, and lies in the foot- 

 hills section of the semi-arid Tropical Zone, its avifauna being prac- 

 tically the same as that of Bonda, with the addition of certain forms 

 from the Piedmont belt. Mr. Smith's party secured a considerable 

 number of specimens here on different occasions. 



Camarones. — A town on the north coast, at the mouth of a river of 

 the same name, about fourteen miles west of Rio Hacha, marking the 

 eastern limit of the humid forest belt on this coast. 



Camperucho. — A village in the extreme southern part of the Santa 

 Marta region, as here defined, where the trail from the Rio Cesar 

 Valley swings abruptly to the northwest around the southern spur of 

 the mountains. It is in a region of rolling savannas, inhabited by 

 such characteristic birds as Theristicus caudatus, CEdicnemus bistria- 

 tus vocifer, Belonopterus cayennensis cayennensis, and Sturnella 

 magna paralios'. A specimen of the last named was taken on August 

 8, 1920. 



Cataca. — Properly speaking, one of the branches of the Rio Araca- 

 taca, but the two names appear to be often used interchangeably. 



Cautilito. — According to Mr. Smith, who is the only one to use the 

 name, this is merely a locality without any houses, near the mouth of 

 the Quebra Mojada. The land here is all low, with clearings and 

 second growth. 



Cerro de Caracas. — A broad, well-defined mountain ridge, a spur of 

 the Sierra Nevada proper, beginning just below San Miguel at the 

 Macotama River, at an altitude of about 5,000 feet, and rising abruptly 

 to about 8,000 feet, then gradually up to about 13,000 feet, where it 

 ends in a jumble of jagged, naked pinnacles of rock, which form a 

 barrier to farther ascent to the snow-capped peaks. The whole of its 

 eastern end and southeastern flank, up to the crest on most parts, has 

 been denuded of forest for generations past, and is covered with thick 

 grass, resembling the prairie grass of the west-central United States. 

 The northwestern side of the ridge is much more perpendicular, and 

 is still forested to the crest, thus presenting perhaps the best cover for 

 birds to be found anywhere in the region of San Miguel. Collections 

 were made here by the junior author between March 31 and April 4, 

 1914, at various altitudes up to 12,000 feet. If Mr. Brown worked 

 this ridge his specimens were doubtless labelled " San Miguel." , 



Cerro Quemado. — The name applied to the western end of the San 



