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more showers would fall in the afternoon. Moisture was every¬ 
where in evidence, but from outlooks the coast land could be seen 
in the sunlight but twenty miles away-rainless and parched. In 
the mountain forest and the coffee groves the bird life was most 
interesting; guans, turkey-like birds of the tropical American 
family Cracidae, called “pavos” or peacocks by the Colombians, 
several species of toucans, a relative of the ivory-billed wood¬ 
pecker, parakeets, a number of species of humming-birds, weird 
woodhewers, wonderful Euphonia, Calliste and Saltator tanagers, 
black and white cotingas, a most home-like wren, and many other 
interesting types. A singularly beautiful voice of the forest was 
that of a very small frog, which in numbers called and answered 
in a most wonderful tinkling bell-like note, an invisible choir of 
chimes in the solemn mysteriousness of the forest twilight. 
Every night at Hacienda Cincinnati several powerful gasolene 
pressure lights were burned to attract insects. Occasionally we 
carried our whole paraphernalia into the forest and erected our 
“moth tent’’ to give a white attracting surface. Much was also 
done at night with hand flash lamps, and many species secured in 
this fashion were not taken otherwise. The stretches of coffee 
trees themselves and open areas of heavy grass and patches of 
sugar cane all added their quotas to the collections made. Coffee 
is grown shaded by regularly planted guamo trees, which species is 
a relative of the mimosas and bears a huge pod, containing large 
beans which are occasionally eaten by the natives. 
From Hacienda Cincinnati Mr. Five has had a trail cut upward 
through the forest to near the summit of San Lorenzo, and over this 
trail, under the guidance of Mr. Robert Sargent, the genial Super¬ 
intendent at Hacienda Cincinnati, we went for a three days’ stay 
on the top ul the San Lorenzo range. The forest remained much 
the same until an elevation of about 6000 feet was reached, when 
a gradual change became evident. The forest from this point 
became lower and more heavily tangled, large bromeliads became 
more evident, and, as we continued to ascend, the tree types changed 
considerably. Here the vegetation was much wetter than below, in 
fact water-soaked, with entangling vine bamboos; and giant tree 
ferns projected above the other members of the forest. Gnarled 
and twisted, but from twenty to thirty feet high and laden with 
bromeliads and mosses, these cloud-land forest trees had an unreal 
and spectral appearance. Over-topping all, the dominant feature 
