THE IBIS. 



SIXTH SERIES. 



No. XXIT. APEIL 1894. 



XIII. — On the Birds of Urugumj. By O. V. Aplin. With 

 an Introduction and Notes by V . h. Sclatek. 



(Plate V.) 



I. luti'odiiction (by P. L. Sclater), p. 149, 

 II. Narrative of the Journey, p. 151. 



III. List of Birds, -with Field-notes, p. 161. 



IV. Explanation of Plate V., p. 215. 



I. Introduction. (By P. L, S.) 

 When I was workings in conjunction with Mr. W. H. Hud- 

 son, on the preparation of 'Argentine Ornithology,^ I found 

 that there was great deficiency in exact knowledge of the 

 birds of Uruguay, although the Ornis of this part of South 

 America might be presumed to be nearly identical with that 

 of the adjoining Republic of La Plata. With a view, how- 

 ever, of becoming better acquainted with this subject, in 

 the beginning of ] 89.2 I made a successful application to the 

 lloyal Society for a sum of .€100 out of the Government 

 Grant for scientific purposes, to enable me to send a collector 

 out to Uruguay, for whom a friend, at that time resident in 

 the country, had offered free quarters on his estancia. Out 

 of several applicants, whom a notice of what was in contem- 

 plation, published in ' Nature,^ * produced, I had no diffic ultv 

 * See ' Nature,' vol. xlv. pp. 174 and 269. 



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