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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 Homed 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 hogotensis, Fulica americana coluvibiana, Ixobrychtis exilis 

 bogotensis, Asio flavimeus bogotensis, Habrura pectoralis hogotensis, 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 Sava«ma, but are unknown 

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

 dissima, Florida caerulea, GalUnula 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 Tinamldce 

 Nothocercus Julius 



Family Cracidte. 

 Penelope montagni 



Family ColumhidcB 

 Zenaida ruficauda ruficauda 

 " " antioquiae 



Family Rallidce 

 RaUus semiplumbeus 

 Porphyriops melanops bogotensis 

 Fulica americana Columbiana 



Family Bubonidae 

 Asio flammeus bogotensis 

 " stygius 



Family Psitiacidce 

 Pionus seniloides seniloides 

 Hapalopsittaca fuertsi 



Family Cypselidcs 

 Streptoprocne zonaris altissima 



Family Trochilidm 

 Helianthea helianthea 



" bonapartei 



" lutetia lutetia 



Lafresnayea satil saiil 

 Aglaeactis cupripennis cupripennis 

 Vestipedes vestitus vestitus 



" " smaragdinipectus 



" mosquera 



" derbyi longirostris 

 Metallura tyrianthina tyrianthina 

 Chalcostigma herrani 

 Ramphomicrom heteropogon mici 



rhjrachus 

 Opisthoprora euryptera 

 Psalidoprymna victorise victoriae 

 " gouldr gouldi 



Family Trogonidce 

 Trogonurus assimilis 



Family Ramphastidce 

 Andigena hypoglauca 



