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XXXV.—A List of Birds collected by the late Henry Durn- 
ford during his last Expedition to Tucuman and Salta. By 
Ossert Satvin, M.A., F.R.S. 
(Plates IX. & X.) 
In ‘The Ibis’ for 1878, p. 493, we recorded the death of 
Henry Durnford, which lamentable occurrence took place on 
the 11th July of that year at Campo Santo, near the remote 
town of Salta, in the Argentine Republic, whither he had gone 
on a collecting-tour from Buenos Ayres. 
After some delay the last collections formed by Durnford 
were forwarded to his brother, our Member, Mr. W. Arthur 
Durnford, who sent them to me for examination. My pro- 
mise to him to name the specimens I now proceed to fulfil. 
T have also received his journals, and propose to give some 
extracts from them in the next number of ‘ The Ibis.’ 
The collection of birds consists of 84 specimens belonging 
to 54 species, which were all obtained, either at Tucuman or 
near Salta, between the 3lst of May and the 29th of June 
1878, and thus form a considerable portion of Durnford’s 
work up to within a few days of his death. 
The region traversed by Durnford, though previously ap- 
proached by several eminent travellers, lies, at least so far as 
Salta is concerned, rather outside the scene of their labours. 
Our chief authority on the birds of Tucuman is Dr. Bur- 
meister, who visited that province some twenty years ago, 
and described his travels in his ‘ Reise durch die La Plata- 
Staaten,’ a work of two volumes, published in 1861. At the 
end of the second volume a list of the birds of the Argentine 
Republic is given, to which I have referred in the following 
notes. Dr. Burmeister, however, does not appear to have 
gone much beyond Tucuman, but turned his attention to the 
more southern districts of Cordova and Mendoza. Judging, 
however, from the collection before me, Salta comes strictly 
within the zoological territory of both Tucuman and Cordova, 
as several characteristic and peculiar species of birds are 
common to all these places. Amongst them are Saltatricula 
multicolor, Cnipolegus cinereus, Upucerthia luscinia, Cory- 
