THE IBIS. 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. XII. OCTOBER 1903. 



XXXVII. — On a Collection of Birds from North-western 

 Argentina and the Bolivian Chaco. By Dr. Einar 

 Lonnberg, C.M.Z.S. 



Contents. t , 



Tage 



I. Introductory Remarks 441 



II. Birds of Quinta, Province of Jujuy, Argentine 



Republic 444 



III. Birds of Moreno on the Tuna de Jujuy, Argentine 



Republic 445 



IV. Birds of San Luis, near Tarija, in Bolivia Ao'2 



V. Birds of Tatarenda and Fortin Crevaux, in the 



Bolivian Chaco 458 



I. Introductory Remarks. 

 When the Swedish Expedition to Argentina and Bolivia, 

 under the direction of Baron Erland Nordenskiold, returned 

 home in 1902, I was requested to examine and determine 

 the birds of the collection which had been made in those 

 countries. At the beginning of the expedition Baron 

 Nordenskiold had no intention of collecting birds ; but 

 when, a little later, Mr. G. von Hofsten joined the party, he 

 was placed in charge of this particular department of zoology. 

 The ornithological results of the expedition arc thus chiefly 

 due to Mr. von Hofsten, who, although not a trained 

 naturalist, succeeded in getting together a comparatively 



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