Bibliography. 



The following list embraces all the titles discovered in a somewhat 

 extensive search through the literature which contain any references 

 whatever, either direct or indirect, important or otherwise, to the birds 

 of the Santa Marta region. The list is arranged chronologically, and 

 each title has been transcribed literally, and the place and date of pub- 

 lication given in full. Up to 1879 nearly all the references are merely 

 incidental, and appear to have been based largely on the more or less 

 doubtful material which passed through the hands of the brothers 

 Verreaux, and even after this date (at which time the first formal 

 paper on the birds of the region was brought out by Salvin and God- 

 man), there are many such dubious references. In 1898 a series of 

 papers from the pen of Mr. Bangs, based on Mr. Brown's collections, 

 began to appear, and in 1900 Dr. Allen published the most complete 

 account of the birds of the region which we have had up to date, with 

 a supplement in 1905. In 1912 the first paper by the senior author, 

 based on material received from Mr. Carriker, collected in part in the 

 Santa Marta region, was published, while several subsequent prelimin- 

 ary descriptions of new forms from the same source have since ap- 

 peared. Other students of the Neotropical fauna, Dr. Oberholser, Mr. 

 Ridgway, Mr. Hellmayr, and particularly Dr. Chapman, have con- 

 tributed to the literature on this subject in more recent years, mainly 

 in connection with systematic investigations along other lines in which 

 they have been engaged. The faunal lists for the region are thus 

 relatively few in number. 



1847. Lafresnaye, [Frederic] de. Quelques oiseaux nouveaux ou rares rap- 

 portes par M. Delatre, de Bolivie, de la Nouvelle-Grenade, et de 

 Panama. — Revue Zoologique, X, March, 1847, 67-79. 



Includes descriptions of Cardinalis granadensis and Dendroplex 

 picirostris, based on specimens purporting to have been collected by 

 Delattre at Rio Hacha, on the coast northeast of Santa Marta. 

 The types are now in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia. 



1853. Gould, John. [Descriptions of Five New Species of Humming Birds.] 

 — Athenceum (London), No. 1329, April 16, 1853, 481. 



This is an advance notice of the paper by the same author in the 



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