sub and ean (sub and ean)

[ of the highest Andean mountains: specifying a certain faunal area. (See below.) -Sub and ean subregion, in zoögeog., one of four subregions into which the continent of South America (with the islands appertaining thereto) has been divided by A. Newton. It includes a not well defined northerly section of the continent, with the islands of Tobago, Trinidad, and the Galapagos, and takes in all the South American countries that do not belong to the Amazonian, Brazilian, or Patagonian subregion. The Sub and ean subregion includes what has also been called the Columbian (or Colombian), but is more extensive. It is recognized upon ornithological grounds, and said to po e 72 peculiar genera of birds. Encyc. Brit., III. 744.