manufactured by throwing Two breakwaters out and dredging a shallow lagoon. The port is well equipped with cranes etc for shiping but is little used now due to the completion of the Panama Canal. The country about is rather dry and the vegetation low and desertlike. They have a great deal of wild hogs. There were sparrows at least? Terns about the bay, The appeared however to be growner with less blue mantle than the Calif birds. They may however be the same or they may be the east coast bird, come across the Isthmus. Frigats and a few Pelicans were about but no Swals or Caracaras. Many Grackles were about the rather deserts town and a near by salt lagoon where they were nesting in the trees in the water. Several different trees contained large colonies. For description see data on site. Many Vultures were present and many Ground Iona Doves which seemed to be paired