THE IBIS 



ELEVENTH SERIES. 



Vol. I. No. 1. JANUARY 1919. 



I. — Notes on Collections of Birds in tlie Britisli Museum, 

 from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Part 1. 

 TiNAMiD.E — RALLiDiE. By Charles Chubb, F.Z S., 

 M.B.O.U. 



[Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.] 



(Plate I. and 2 Text-figures.) 



The followiug notes are based^ chiefly, on a collection made 

 by the late Perry O. Simons in the Andean regions of 

 Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina from the latter 

 part of 1898 to November 1901, at varying altitudes up to 

 5000 metres. 



The collection, Avhich consists of about three thousand 

 specimens, contains many new forms and records of species 

 that were not previously known to .occur in the localities 

 visited, thus adding new facts to the distribution of the 

 species. 



The expedition was a private undertaking initiated and 

 financed by Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., of tlie Department 

 of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), whose en- 

 thusiasm is so well known among mamma]ogists and who 

 lias done so much to advance that branch of Zoological 

 Science. His object was to obtain a collection, as coujplete 



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