NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VALLEY OF QUITO. 657 
The botany of our Pacific states (California and Oregon), so far 
as it is known, reveals no nearer affinity to that of Quito — although 
the near relatives of Californian plants, when they have any in 
other lands, are in the Mexican plateau. Quito has plenty 
of Bignoniads, Acanthads and Lobelias; on our Pacific slope 
there are none. In Quito the Composite are mainly Heleniz ; on 
our Pacific coast there are few, if any, Heleniz, but the ones 
tends chiefly to Senecionide. 
The recent researches of Griesbach prove the absence of tem- 
perate American species or types of plants on the loftier moun- 
tains of the West Indian Islands. These rise in Jamaica to eight 
_thousand feet, and yet with the exception of a few naturalized 
` plants, as Fragaria vesca, Ranunculus repens, etc., we find 
scarcely any North American temperate genera or species. Of 
nearly eleven hundred West Indian genera, only thirty are de- 
cidedly northern. This almost total absence of typical North 
American plants in the highlands of the West Indies, is a feature 
le with their having shared in the effects of a glacial 
migration 
[Parts I and II of these “Contributions ” are given in Volume V of the NATURALIST, 
commencing on pages 619 and 693, — Eps. 
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ppendix. The Weasel, M. aureoventris Gray, mentioned on p. 622, Vol. v, is 
Sei from the Valley. The a Birds should be added to the list giyen in ‘ie 
NATURALIST, Oct. 1871, Vol. v. 
Phentions aureoventer Se í Cynqutiens Ri gag 
en scus nigrieapillus Tatr a D. e 
Orthoëca citrinifrons Phavthornis piee bei 
Misoserontus parey Me 2 Heliotrypha Parzudakii L. et P. 
henu eaae Sel. shige te or oat G.e tM. 
Stenopsis riacest x Sel. cyanotis Bourc. 
Nyctibius J amn Gm. ? Bourcieria torqua a erie 5. 
Eutoxeres heternra Gould. rochroa Bougieri Boure. 
rostilbon melanorhynchus G. Sycalis arvensis sh read 
Panoplites Mathewsi si Lodd. Sycalis luteiventris Mey. 
Helian 
ngelus micraster Gould. 
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