BIOGEOGRAPHIA - vol. XIII - 1987 Biogeografia delle A/pi Sud—0rienraIi Some zoogeographical characteristics of the birdfauna of the Julian Alps JANEZ GREGORI Natmzzl History Museum of Slovenza, Ljubljamz, Yugoslavzkz The birds of the Julian Alps are relatively well known but the picture of single species and their distribution will in fact be supplemented after corn- pleting the mapping of the Ornithological Atlas of Slovenia. The remaining parts of the Alps, the Savinjske Alpe and the Pohorje, have not undergone such detailed ornithological studies; published with reference to their ornithofauna were only shorter contributions and elaborates, respectively. Our survey therefore deals only with the Julian Alps and an adjacent area of the Karavanken Mountains. The birds of the Julian Alps are considered with respect to single moun- tain zones, namely: I. Highland rocky zone and pastures II. Zone of larch forests and heather III. Zone of pine forests IV. Zone of mixed forests V. Lowland zone of thermophilic and degradaded forests, shrubbery, fields, human settlements, swamps and streams. Our survey of certain types of the birds of the Julian Alps are taken from Voos (1962). Taken into account are only those bird species nesting there and whose nesting has been confirmed also after 1950. Of the 190 species of birds nest- ing in Slovenia (83 Nonpasseriformes, 170 Passeriformes), 113 species nest in the Julian Alpes, 37 species (=44.6°/o) thereof Nonpasseriformes and 76 spe- cies (=71%) Passeriformes. Most of the nesting species belong to the Paleartic type of the fauna (40.7%); they are followed by the European (15.0%), the European—Turkes— tan (10.6%), the Holoarctic (9.7%) and the Palaeo-rnontane (7.1%) types. Other faunistic types are not represented so well, among them the faunal type of the Old World (5.3q/o), the Sibirian—Canadian type (2.6%), the Sib- irian type (1.8%), the Indo-African type (1.8%), the Palaeo—Xeromontane type (1.8%), the cosmopolitan type (0.9%), the arctic type (0.9%) and the rnediterranean type (0.9%). 779