1917.] Chapman, Distrilmtion of Bird-life in Colombia. 651 



Paramo of Santa Isabel. — (Alt. 12,500 ft.) A camp in a valley of the Paramo 

 near the summit of the Central Andes north of the Quindio Trail. This is our 

 only paramo station lying at the base of snow fields, the presence of which appears 

 to be essential to the growth of highly developed paramo vegetation. The col- 

 lections made here include some paramo species, unknown elsewhere in Colom- 

 bia, and indicate that the Central Range is the main northward extension of the 

 Andean System. (No. 49.) 

 Expedition No. 3, September 13-21; 200 specimens. 



Paramo of TamX..— (Lat. 7° 15' S., long. 72° 30' W.; alt. 8000 ft.) "A somewhat 

 isolated mountain mass lying partly in Colombia and partly in Venezuela. 

 The collecting station in Colombia was near the extreme headwaters of the 

 Tachira River. Here the forest is somewhat broken and numerous meadows and 

 grassy openings occur, while higher up there is a small area of open rocky moun- 

 tain top with only narrow tongues of trees, but the extent of this is too limited 

 to support a true 'paramo' fauna so the lite is mostly that of a forest region" 

 (W. H. Osgood). (No. 161.) Field Museum Expedition, W. H. Osgood and 

 S. G. Jewett. 



Pasto.— (Lat. 1° 13', long. 77° 28'; alt. 8134 ft.) A city in the Arid Temperate 

 Zone. No collections have been made here, but Pasto appears to have been the 

 shippiog place for some few lots of skins which were apparently secured in the 

 forests of the Pacific slope. (See under Buthraupis edwardsi.) (No. 62.) 



Patia Valley. — (Alt. 2370 ft.) A deep, narrow valley on the headwaters of the 

 Patia, southwest of Popayan. It was described to us by Mervyn Palmer, who 

 passed through it in travelling from Quito to Call, as arid and treeless. Good- 

 fellow, in journeying from Call to Quito, also went through this valley, and 

 speaks of seeing certain birds in it not met with elsewhere. It has never been 

 zoologically explored. Our plan to this end miscarried. (No. 59.) 



Paturia. — A lagoon just off the east side of the Magdalena near Dique, visited by 

 Wyatt. (No. 104.) 



Pay AS. — (Alt. 4400 ft.) A locality on the Pacific slope of the Western Andes, above 

 Buenaventura, visited by Palmer. (No. 23.) 



Peque. — (Alt. 5000 ft.) A small town at which porters were secured for the ascent 

 of the Paramillo, at the lower limit of the cloud forest of the Subtropical Zone. 

 (No. 33.) 

 Expedition No. 8, February 4, 1915; 28 specimens. 



PiRicc— (Lat. 7° 50', long. 73° 33'; alt. 5300 ft.) "Three or four huts" on a range 

 of the Andes lying between Ocana and the Magdalena; visited by Wyatt. (No. 

 114.) 



Plains of Tolima. — A locality given by Stone in his report on the DetwHer collec- 

 tions. Probably the country lymg between the Magdalena River and Ibagiie 

 through which this collector passed in going to the last-named city. 



Plano db los Monos. — (Alt. 2600 ft.) A locality on the Pacific slope of the West- 

 ern Andes above Buenaventura. Visited by Andr6. 



PoCTJNi;. — (Alt. 1970 ft.) A station at which Salmon collected, on the Rio Pocun6, 

 near Remedies. (No. 121.) 



Popayan.— (Lat. 2° 26', long. 76° 46'; alt. 5478 ft.) A city on the slopes of the 

 mountains bordering the southern end of the Cauea Valley. The surroundings 

 are chiefly grass-grown hUls with some groups of trees and brush but no forest. 

 Faunally the region lies at the border of the arid Subtropical and Temperate 



