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ental Divide, and Los Pinos just east of the same, were our next 
points, and from Los Pinos, at 9600 feet, the summit of the Cumbres 
Range, at 11200 feet, was reached. The whole character of the 
Cumbres region is different from that of the Saguache Range to the 
north or the San Juans to the northwest. It is a mountain region of 
more rounded outline, with the forest cover more “spotty.” In an 
alpine meadow at Los Pinos we secured a splendid series of a genus 
of grasshopper unknown before from the entire region of the Rockies. 
Snow was threatening at Los Pinos, and it was quite evident Sep- 
tember eleventh was near the end of the working season for us in 
such elevations in Colorado. 
A brief stop made at Alamosa, in the upper Rio Grande Valley 
of Colorado, brought to light species of the New Mexican section 
of the valley, here nearly three thousand feet higher than previously 
known. Another day spent on the plains near Pueblo added some 
desired information and much needed material of several scarce 
or local species to our series, and on September sixteenth we reached 
Philadelphia after a very successful field season. Approximately 
eight thousand Orthoptera were secured, as well as a number of 
other insects, while the field notes and observations made represent 
in scientific value even more than the specimens taken. 
OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLAND STREAMS AND THEIR 
FISH LIFE. 
By Henry W. Fowler. 
A hasty journey was made by the writer and his brother, Edwin 
Fowler, in the interests of the Academy during the month of Oct- 
ober, 1921, to the larger streams and their tributaties, which tra- 
verse our South Atlantic and Gulf States, heading back in the 
ridges of the Alleghanies and winding their way across the Piedmont 
Plateau and the Coastal Plain. This is a region proverbially rich 
in fishes and from which came many rare and little-known species 
discovered by the earlier American ichthyologists. 
We were successful in securing about three thousand specimens 
representing upwards of fifty species, a number of which are very 
rare in collections and known only from the meagre descriptions of 
their discoverers. The richness of the fauna was a constant de- 
