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ARGENTINE ORNITHOLOGY.
A
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
OF THE
BIRDS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
BY
P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Etc.
WITH NOTES ON THEIR HABITS
BY
W. H. HUDSON, C.M.Z.S.,
LATE OF BUENOS AYRES.
BURMEISTER’S CARIAMA.VOLUME II.
LONDON:
R. H. PORTER, 18 PRINCES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, W.
1889.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
This volume contains our account of all the Orders of Birds metwith within the Argentine Republic except the Passeres, whichwere treated of in the First Volume. It also comprises anAppendix and Index, and completes the work. The Introductionis issued with this, but is intended to be bound up withthe first volume, and is paged to follow the contents of thatvolume.
The total number of species which we have thus assigned tothe Argentine Avifauna is 434. To this list, no doubt, considerableadditions will have to be made when the more remoteprovinces of the Republic have been explored. We trust thatthis work may at least serve to excite residents in Argentina tomake fresh investigations, for we are quite aware how imperfectis the compilation now offered to the public.
It will be seen that in the following pages, as in the firstvolume, we have availed ourselves liberally of the information onArgentine birds contained in the writings of Dr. Burmeister,Mr. Barrows, and Mr. Gibson. To all of these gentlemen wewish to offer