NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. XVI. DEC!EMBER, 1909. No. 2. 



NOTES SUR LES OISEAUX DE LA REPUBLIQUE 



ARGENTINE. 



Par E. HARTERT et S. VENTURI. 



(Planches II. et III.) 



[The i'ollowiug notes ou the Birds of the Argentine Repnblie are based on a 

 manuscript by Mr. 8. Venturi, of Buenos Aires, on the nidification, eggs, and 

 habits of Argentine Ijirds, As long ago as 1900 Mr. Rothschild bought from 

 Mr. Venturi a valuable eollcction of eggs and bird-skins from the Argentine 

 Republic. Together with the collection l\Ir. Venturi sent us the manuscript men- 

 tioned above, which we proaiised to publish in some way or other. The manuscript 

 was a French translation of the original article, which had been written in Spanish. 

 The great value of Mr. Venturi's notes was evident and indisputable, but we could 

 not very well publish them in the form they were before us. Having in oar hands 

 the material ou which they were based, and many specimens not mentioned in the 

 manuscript, and seeing that not only some species were wrongly identified, but that 

 a number of new forms were among them, it became necessary carefully to compare 

 every skin and to add considerably to the work. Moreover, the French was not 

 i|nite tit for publication, and as 1 (a born German domiciled in Englandj iiad never 

 written an article for priut in French before, and was no more competent than 

 Mr. Venturi (an Italian domiciled in the Argentine Republic), the editing of our 

 notes involved some difficulty. I am greatly obliged to my friend Mr. ( '. E. 

 Hellmayr and to Miss Michaelis for looking over the manuscripts and proofs, and 

 I trust that by their kind help a work has been produced whii'h even French- 

 men will be able to read without too great a horror over the violation of their 

 language. 



I decided to make use of this excellent opportunity, not only to enumerate the 

 localities of the specimens of birds collected by Jlr. Venturi, but also to mention 

 what we had received from the Argentine Republic from other collectors. Not 

 to mention some odd specimens, they were : 



1. 135 skins from the Estancia S. Martino, Jloute, province of Buenos Aires, 



collected in 1890 and 1807 by Mr. Paul Neumann, of Berlin. 



2. Several hundred birds collected at La Soledad, Entre Rios, by Mr. C. B. 



Brittaiu, of Tring (now of Stony Stratfonlj. 



3. Some skins, mostly from Cosquin, a village in the mountains west of 



the city of Cordova, collected by E. W. White. (Cf Proc. Zoo/. Sor. 

 London, 1S82, p. 591, 188:i, pp. 37 and 432.) 



4. Some of the skins collected by Mr. (i. A. Baer, of Paris, near Tucnman. 



(Cf. Oi-His, xii. 11. 2U9, 1904.) 



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