1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 79 



Notes on Colombian Climatology. 



Temperature: — The temperature of any given locality in Colombia 

 shows so little fluctuation throughout the year that the seasons are marked, 

 not by increase of cold or heat, but by rainfall. To demonstrate the narrow 

 and regular path travelled yearly by the thermometer in Colombia, and as a 

 contribution to the unfortunately limited amount of published meteoro- 

 logical data from that country, I append a summarized record of the tem- 

 perature for the year 1907 at the sugar estate of La Manuelita in the Cauca 

 Valley near Palmira. These records were made by Mr. Chas. J. Eder and 

 are selected as an average from a series covering a period of ten years. It 

 will be observed that there is only a diif erence of six degrees in the average 

 weekly temperature for the entire year. 



Temperature for the year 1907 at La Manuelita, Col. 



