BULLETIN 



American Museum of Natural History. 



Volume XXXVI, 1917. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF BIRD-LIFE IN COLOMBIA; 



A CONTRIBUTION TO A BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 



OF SOUTH AMERICA. 



By Frank M. Chapman. 

 Part I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



SYNOPSIS. 



Part I. 



Introduction 



Acknowledgments 



A Review of Colombian Ornithology 



The American Museum's Expeditions in Colombia 



Auxiliary Collections 



An Outline of Colombian Topography 



Remarks on the Distribution of Forests 



Notes on Colombian Climatology 



The Life Zones of the Colombian Andes 



The Tropical Zone and its Faunas 



The Subtropical Zone and its Faunas 



The Temperate Zone 



The Paramo Zone 



