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tion it still may be described as a flat, treeless plain suitable for the wants 

 of such plains-loving species as Horned Larks and Pipits, dotted with 

 sloughs and reedy marshes, ideal haunts for Coots, Rails, and Bitterns. 

 Nowhere else in the Temperate Zone of Colombia do these and certain 

 other species find the conditions they require. The Savanna, therefore, 

 constitutes the entire range of such forms as Rallus semiplumbeus, Porphy- 

 riops melanops bogotensis, Fulica americana Columbiana, Ixobrydms exilis 

 bogotensis, Asio flammeus bogotensis, Habrura pedoralis bogotensis, and 

 Otocoris alpestris peregrina, when it follows that, lacking this favorable 

 locality, none of these species would be represented in Colombia. 



Various other species, generally wide-ranging tropical and subtropical 

 forms, are found more or less regularly in the Savanna, but are unknown 

 elsewhere in the Colombian Temperate Zone. Examples are Egretta candi- 

 dissima, Florida coerulea, Gallinula galeata, all of which have been found in 

 the Savanna by Hermano Apolinar Maria, whom I have to thank for this 

 information. 



So small a part of the Andean Temperate Zone is contained in Colombia 

 that what has been written here can be considered only as a contribution 

 toward the solution of a very large problem. 



Birds of the Temperate Zone. 



Family Tinamidoe 

 Nothocercus Julius 



Family Cracidce. 

 Penelope montagni 



Family Columbidoe 

 Zenaida ruficauda ruficauda 

 " " antioquise 



Family Rallidce 

 Rallus semiplumbeus 

 Porphyriops melanops bogotensis 

 Fulica americana columbiana 



Family Bubonidce 

 Asio flammeus bogotensis 

 " stygius 



Family Psiitacidce 

 Pionus seniloides seniloides 

 Hapalo()sittaca f uertsi 



Family Cypselidoe 

 Streptoprocne zonaris altissima 



Family Trochilidce 

 Helianthea helianthea 



" bonapartei 



" lutetia lutetia" 



Lafresnayea saiil saiil 

 Aglseaotis cupripennis cupripennis 

 Vestipedes vestitus vestitus 



" " smaragdinipectus 



" mosquera 



" derbyi longirostris 

 MetaUura tyrianthina tyrianthina 

 Chalcostigma herrani 

 Ramphomicrom heteropogon micro- 



rhynchus 

 Opisthoprora euryptera 

 Psalidoprymna victoriae victoriae 

 " gouldi gouldi 



Family Trogonidce 

 Trogonurus assimilis 



Family Ramphastidce 

 Andigena hypoglauca 



