50 Bulletin American Museum of Nahiral History. [^'ol. XXX\ I, 



"I arrived at Barbacoas (a town of 4000 negroes and 50 whites) in what 

 was supposed to be the dry season, but it rained about twice a day during 

 my stay. Nine months of the year it is said to pour, and even zinc roofs 

 corrode. The cHmate is like a Turkish bath. 



"The journey from Barbacoas to Ricaurte is about a 75-mile gradual 

 climb over a good road. The intervening country is very broken and uncul- 

 tivated and is inhabited only along the road, over which hundreds of Indians 

 and mules laden with freight from Pasto and the interior pass daily. 



" Ricaurte, with an elevation which I believe to be between 4000-4500 

 feet,' is on the upper edge of the forested zone which extends to this point 

 from the coast. The country above Ricaurte is open, bare and grassy^ 

 and through it one may pass over steep ascents to the paramo. 



"At Ricaurte it is dryer, the forest is less luxuriant and dense than 

 further down, but the country is very broken except along the gradually 

 winding road. I found there many of the birds of San Antonio, ^lunchique, 

 and Miraflores. 



" At Buenavista (alt. 1200 ft.) between Barbacoas and Ricaurte it rained 

 steadily for six days. Only once did I get a glimpse of the snow cap of 

 Mt. Cumbal in Ecuador." 



Expedition No. 7. — The Bogota Region. January 19- April 16, 1913. 



Personnel. — Frank M. Chapman, George K. Cherrie, Louis A. Fuertes, 

 Paul G. Howes, Geoflroy O'Connell, Thomas M. Ring. 



Itinerary. — On January 19, 1913, we sailed from Barranquilla up the 

 Magdalena, and by taking advantage of stops for fire-wood and cargo, 

 collected 300 birds during our twelve-day voyage to La Dorada, the port 

 of Honda. 



At Honda (alt. 600 ft.) we remained from February 2 to 9, collecting in 

 the immediate vicinity of the city, at the hacienda El Triunfo, a few miles 

 to the north, and at the beautifully situated posada, El Consuelo (alt. 3300 

 ft.) distant four hours' ride on the mule trail to Bogot£. 



February 10, we left Honda on mules over this trail for Bogota. No 

 collecting was done en route during the three-day journey to Facatativd, 

 where a train was taken to Bogota, but our familiarity in life with many of 

 the more common species observed, permitted us to make notes on their 

 altitudinal distribution as we rode slowly through their respective zones. 



1 Mr. Richardson's barometer not having reached him he was unable to learn accurately the eleva- 

 tion of Ricaurte. His collections, however, show that it is in the Subtropical Zone. — ■ F. M. C. 



