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SEP 8 1964 
HARVARD 
UNIVERSITY 
P REFACE. 
My much esteemed friend the late Harry Berkeley James 
and I had some time ago formed a plan to prepare a work on 
the Birds of Chili, a subject in which he took very great 
interest, as a sort of companion volume to that on ‘Argentine 
Ornithology ’ by Mr. W. IJ. Hudson and myself. 
In furtherance of this object, in the beginning of the present 
year James proceeded to compile from our MSS. a new list of 
the Birds of Chili as a basis for future work. Several appoint¬ 
ments made to meet and settle this list were frustrated by 
James’s serious illness, and at the time of his death (on the 
22nd of July last) the list still remained in type, awaiting final 
revision. This revision, at the request of Mrs. James, I have 
now had the melancholy satisfaction of completing. In 
offering it, on behalf of Mrs. James, to his companions of the 
British Ornithologists’ Union I think that I cannot do better 
than preface it with a short biography of our deceased associate. 
Harry Berkeley James was born on the 9th of March, 1846, 
at Walsall, Staffordshire, in the house of his father Mr. Frank 
James of the same place, and was educated at Springhill 
School, Southampton. In 1807 he went out to South America 
as Clerk in the house of Messrs. Gunston and Edmundson, of 
