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and in turn feeds Lake Macotama, the water tumbling over a nearly 

 perpendicular wall of rock into the lower lake. Lake Macotama is 

 the source of the river of the same name, which after leaving the 

 lake flows northeast through a gently sloping valley more than a mile 

 wide, extending down to ii,coo feet, where it ends abruptly in a nar- 

 row, steeply sloping valley. The banks of the stream are thickly 

 grown up with stunted trees and shrubs, right up to Lake Macotama, 

 as well as the shores of the lake itself, making ideal cover for birds. 

 Above 15,000 feet bushes are very scarce and small. It is delightful 

 roaming about over these great wastes when the sun is shining, but 

 beware when the clouds roll up in blinding mist, for they carry a chill 

 which penetrates the thickest clothing and searches out the very mar- 

 row of one's bones. It is astonishing to find birds so abundant at 

 these high altitudes, although not many species are represented, and 

 even they are as shy as deer, and often require the same amount .of 

 stalking to secure. The junior author's work in this locality was done 

 between April 16 and 21, 1914, while Mr. Brown collected here also 

 during his second trip to the Sierra Nevada, in February and March, 

 1899. 



Paramo de Macotama.— As used by Mr. Brown, this name applies 

 to the paramos on the heights to the west of the Indian village of 

 that name, and lying at an altitude of from 11,000 to 12,000 feet. His 

 work here was done in February and March, 1899. 



Paramo de Mamarongo. — This is the name applied by Sievers to 

 the lower paramo to the east of the village of Macotama, which ex- 

 tends southward to join the main backbone of the Sierra Nevada to 

 the eastward of the Chiruqua Pass and the Snow Peaks. These para- 

 mos are, on the whole, lower, and have less water and shrubbery than 

 the Paramos de Chiruqua, and consequently fewer birds. They were 

 visited by the junior author in April, 1914. 



Piedras. — A river in the northwest coastal section, emptying into the 

 sea a little east of Cabo de San Juan de Guia. 



Playa Brava. — A locality used by Mr. Smith, and situated at the 

 head of a bay, about six miles northeast of Santa Marta. 



Playa Concha. — See Concha. 



Pueblo Viejoj — A village near Cienaga, on the sand-dunes near the 

 mouth of the Cienaga Grande, where a specimen of Ateleodacnis bi- 

 color was obtained by Mr. Smith's expedition in September, 1898. 



