Excerpt from Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 14: 1922The present volume is set aside for the presentation of a mono graphic paper on the Birds of the Santa Marta Region of Colombia by Messrs. W. E. Clyde Todd and M. A. Carriker, Jr.Long before the buildings which now house the Carnegie Institute were even planned, much less erected, the question of the scope and special work of the Carnegie Museum was taken up and carefully dis cussed with the generous Founder by the writer, and it was decided that among other things it would be especially desirable to carry on researches upon the natural history and resources of tropical America. Mr. Carnegie always was deeply interested in the republics Of the south, and signally evidenced his interest by the gift of the pan-amer ican Building in Washington, and by active participation in all efforts tending to bring about friendly and harmonious relations with our sister republics, which lie beneath the Southern Cross.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.