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the Temperate Zone constitutes approximately 5 per cent of the total 

 resident avifauna, while in the Andes it constitutes 9.6 per cent, and 

 no less than one hundred and four species are represented in the 

 Andes, as against only twenty-two in the region under consideration. 

 These facts serve to strengthen the conclusions at which we have al- 

 ready arrived from a study of the two lower zones, with reference 

 to the insular character of the fauna of this region. We proceed to 

 a consideration of the relationships of the Temperate Zone of the 

 Sierra Nevada by comparing it directly with the same zone as it is 

 found in the Venezuelan Andes and Colombian Andes respectively. 



Table showing Representative Distribution of Temperate Zone Forms. 



Group. Colombian Sierra Venezuelan 



Andes. Nevada. Andes. 



Amazona mercenaria mercenaria 



Systellura ruficervix ruficervix ruficervix 



Metallura tyriantliina tyr- districta tyrianthina oreo- 



ianthina pola 



Ramphomicron microrhynchum dorsale microrhynchum 



Grallaria rufula rufula spatiator 



Scytaiopus meridanus latebricola meridanus 



Heliochera rubrocristata rubrocristata rubrocristata 



Mecocerculns leucophrys . . . .setophagoides setophagoides setophagoides 



Octhccca lessoni poliogastris 



Octhodiccta fumigata pernix lugubris 



Orodynastes striatic ollis ... . striaticollis striaticollis striaticollis 



Semimerula gigas gigas cacozela gigas pallidiven- 



tris 



CUiclus leuconotus rivularis lenconotus 



Henicorhina leucophrys guttata anachoreta subsp. 



Orochelidon murina cyanophara cyanophara 



Hemispingus atropileus basilicus 



Conirostrum rufum rufum 



{lafresnayei] 



\ nocticolor lafresnayei 



aterrima 



Idiospiza inornata minor oreophila 



Catamenia alpica alpica 



Brachyspiza capensis peruviana peruviana peruviana 



Spinus spinescens spinescens capitaneus 



Owing to lack of positive information with regard to the occur- 

 rence of certain Temperate Zone forms in the Venezuelan Andes the 



