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Catalogue Of A Collection Of Birds From Guatemala (1907)
Catalogue Of A Collection Of Birds From Guatemala - 1907 Author:Ned Dearborn Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM ' GUATEMALA BY NED DEARBORN The collection of birds treated in tHis paper was derived from three sources. Messrs... more ». Edmund Heller and Charles M. Barber, who spent the winter of i904-5 in Guatemala making general collections for the Department of Zoology, supplied 49; Mr. Barber, who continued the general collecting the following year, furnished i38; and the writer, making birds his chief object, collected i,000 during the early part of the year i906. The total number, then, is i,i87, comprising 305 species and subspecies, mostly skins, though several skeletons and alcoholic specimens are included. All localities represented by specimens are indicated on the accompanying map, which also shows the route followed by the writer. This route, for the most part, was the line of least resistance. From Puerto Barrios, the port of entry, to El Rancho, the Guatemala Northern R. R. furnished convenient transportation; and from Guatemala City to Mazatenango and San Jose by way of Esquintla, the Guatemala Central R. R. was employed. Between El Rancho and Guatemala City, and from Patulul to Tecpam and back to Guatemala City, it was necessary to go on horseback, pack horses or Indians being employed to carry luggage, according to which happened to be the more convenient. As a rule, however, an Indian mozo is preferable to a horse as a carrier for packages of i00 pounds or less. The localities visited and the days spent in collecting at each, are as follows: El Rancho, January 4th to nth; Los Amates, January i5th to February gth; Puerto Barrios, February i2th; Gualan, February i4th to ijth; Lake Amatitlan, February 24th to 27th; San Jose', March 5th to 9th; Mazatenango, March i5th to 2ist; Patulul, March 23d to April 5th; Lake Atitlan, April 7th...« less