BULLETIN 



American Museum of Natural History. 



Volume XXXVT, 1917. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF BIRD-LIFE IN COLOMBIA; 



A CONTRIBUTION TO A BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 



OF SOUTH AMERICA. 



By Feank M. Chapman. 

 Part I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



SYNOPSIS. 



Fast I. 



Introduction 

 Acknowledgments 



A Review of Colombian Ornithology 

 The American Museum's Expeditions in Colombia 

 < Auxiliary Collections 



An Outhne 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 



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