No. 6. — Birds from Daricii. By OuTRAM Bangs and Thomas Barbour. The latter author, with Mr. W. S. Brooks, spent several months this spring (1922) in Panama. Part of the time was occupied in a journey to the Sapo Highlands and to the heavy forests of the Sambu \'alley, previously unAisited by a zoologist and one of the least known areas of all tropical America. The original plan was to collect mammals and reptiles but having the opportunity to engage the services of IMr. C. F. Underwood while in Costa Rica, it was decided to attempt a collection of birds. Un-favorable weather conditions and the illness of Mr. Underwood made it undesirable to prolong this work. Nevertheless it is only proper to record that, working under conditions very different from the luxurious bird collecting of Costa Rica, with a veteran corps of trained assistants, and camping here, under the most difficult conditions, Mr. Under-wood preserved every single birfl worth saving. We worked under high pressure and had some good Chocoano Indian shooters, but the num-ber of days devoted to ornithology was only about seventeen. Since nearly seven hundred birds were collected it will readily be understood that some of the days were long and well occupied. In one day eighty-seven birds were shot and skinned. One hundred and fifty-nine species are represented in the collection. It would have been easy to increase this list very considerably. The clearings about the village of Garachine and about the Indian plantations on the Sambii swarmed with many species of birds characteristic of the open country. Many forms were so familiar to us all and so well represented in col-lections that our stays about the clearings were devoted to other acti\ities. The collection really represents an attempt to obtain only those species unrepresented in the M. C. Z., so far as our knowledge went. Inevitably, however, many common species were preserved. Field notes, in many cases of no great value, are appended. The only excuse for so doing is the paucity of data concerning the region and the fact that so many collections of birds are reported upon by persons who have not had the good fortune to share in securing the material. Collections of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes were also obtained and reports upon these series, together with a general ac-
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