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Rancheria. — A river draining the entire eastern part of the Santa 

 Marta region, beyond the headwaters of the Rio Cesar. It was for- 

 merly known as the Rio de la Hacha, and empties into the Caribbean 

 Sea near the town of that name, after describing a semi-circular course 

 through the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the plains of 

 the Goajira Peninsula. 



Rio Frio. — A river on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, empty- 

 ing into the Cienaga Grande, with a town by the same name at the 

 place where it is crossed by the Santa Marta Railway. 



Rio Hacha (_or Riohacha). — A town of about five thousand in- 

 habitants, situated on the coast about ninety miles east of Santa Marta, 

 near the mouth of the Rio Rancheria. The lower course of this river 

 marks the dividing line between the Indian territory, known as the 

 Goajira, and the Department of Magdalena, and is well within the 

 arid belt comprising the Goajira Peninsula. This arid region ex- 

 tends westward from Rio Hacha for about twenty-five miles, gradually 

 merging into the humid forest belt between Camarones and DibuUa. 

 The immediate vicinity of Rio Hacha is not quite typical of the con- 

 ditions farther out on the Peninsula, there being more trees and less 

 cacti in evidence, but nevertheless all, or nearly all, of the species 

 peculiar to the arid region occur there, together with some of the 

 semi-arid belt. Rio Hacha first figures in ornithological literature in 

 1847, when Lafresnaye described two new species from the Delattre 

 collection, Cardinalis granadensis and Dendroplex picirostris, said to 

 have been obtained there, and again in 1853, when Bonaparte pub- 

 lished a ' diagnosis of his Psittacula pyrilia, ■ from the same source. 

 Simons landed here in 1878, but did no collecting, nor did Mr. Brown 

 on the occasion of his visits. The collection of birds secured here by 

 the junior author numbers over three hundred specimens, and was 

 made between May i and 7, 1914, and Jiily 14 and 17, 1920. 



Rosario. — A village in the foothills of the southern slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada, near the headwaters of the Rio Cesar. 



Salamanca. — A low, narrow strip of sandy beach, separating the 

 waters of the Caribbean Sea from those of the Cienaga Grande, leav- 

 ing a narrow passageway at its eastern end. It is covered in many 

 parts by shrubbery and small trees, while the shores of the Cienaga 

 are thickly grown up with mangroves. 



San Antonio. — This is the name for the old Indian village which was 



