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There Is suspension bridge which connects the two 
cenps, over 200 ’neters long, but only for foot passeng^ei 
We spent., only nine days here. ____ ___ 
This place is still in the foothills and all 
heavilv wooded,vdth country ranch br*>ken. Most of th- 
collecting was done along the river and along a road 
running back up a side creek a couple of kiloraeters. 
'iVl'ien we arrived here v/e found that the blue haze 
which had puzzled us so much at Monte- .Bello was cause- 
by forest fires which had been burning all around this 
region and south to Oran for the past month. The 
smoke was much worse here. at-Bermejo -and after a few. 
days the fires c.ame very close on both sides of the rive 
so that collecting w;as very difficult on account of the 
.smoke. . For., two dayn-it V!?as impossible-to- work.on the 
Bolivian side a,nd wq collected on the Argentine bank. 
Howcever n'^ species ’were taken on the 'Argentine side 
which '"ere not taken in Bolivia. -__ -.. 
7G species were taken at 3ermejo,of v/hich 18 were 
additions to the years list and 9 not previoii.sljr taken 
in Bolivia. On the v/hole the place ’was--a decided dissa- 
pointment. Ho’wea^er conditions were so similiar to those 
at Lipeo that not much new could be expected,"hilc the 
fire and ssioke made collecting more di-fficult.. - 
ihile here we had one rain of a half inch,’"hich was 
very welcome and made the last'two dav collecting ’such 1 
better. ’ . ’ 
Fo rtin Gam o ero (1150 feet) 
This Bolivian Fort is in_the Juntas de San Antonio, 
where the Bios Terija and Bermejo meet,and is the .. 
most southern point of Bolivia, where that country -- - 
extends deep into the Argentine in the province of 
Salta. Sgortly after leaving Bermejo, the hills 
diss.apeat completely end the country is entirely flat. 
Therd is an auto road from Bermejo to the Fort, alvso 
from Agaablcnca to Oran. Distance to the .fort is 12 
miles, from Aguabla.nca to Oran, 48 kilometers.. 
The forest had been burned over for the greater part 
between Bermejo and the"Fort, the'fire burning"out the 
undergpow;th, dead trees and mccny of thoc standing were" - 
burned off and had f.allen do’/n, Fverything very dry 
.and bare and smoke still h.anging about. 
At the Fort birds w/ere not particulas’ly .abund''nt, - 
and most of those taken were shot along the t’xo riverji.. 
Further hack, inside the forest birds, w-’ere very scarce 
end fire had been through most- of the forest. Ticks'^ - 
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