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DR. CHAPMAN'S “Report on the Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia” ranks amongst the most important contributions ever made to the knowledge of the ornis of the Neotropical Region, the avifauna pf which stands unrivalled both in the wealth and variety of its feathered forms and in the number of its peculiar family and generic types. Colombia, thanks to Dr. Chapman's investigations, is now known to be the richest portion of this remarkable area so far as bird-life is concerned. That this should be so is due, no doubt, to the varied physiographical features to be found in that equatorial republic, for these range from tropical pasture-lands and forests at low, or comparatively low, levels to regions of perpetual snow in the Cordilleras, and include the uppermost tributaries of the Orinoco and some of those of the Amazon.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. xxxvi., 1917. The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia: A Contribution to a Biological Survey of South America.
By Dr. Frank M. Chapman. Pp. x + 729 + xli plates. (New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1917.)
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C., W. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vol xxxvi, 1917 The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia: A Contribution to a Biological Survey of South America. Nature 103, 462 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103462a0
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