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Notes sur les oiseaux de la Republique Argentine

1909; Natural History Museum at Tring; Volume: 16; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/bhl.part.21963

0950-7655

Species Distribution and Climate Change

Over 40(1 skins cdUected liy that rx(^elli'ut collector Mr. L. Oinelli in the provincps of Tucnniaii find Salta.Purchased from Mr. Rosenberg in London and Mr. I'aer in Paris.(('!'.P)iM'h'j)soli, (h/i/'.i,xiv.[PfOi: CnM/resa, Londcnt], ]i.-54 T.) '5.Over I MO skins, mostly colh'oted in the jprovincc of Salta, by Jose fSteinbaoh, the well-known collector of natural history specimens in the Argentine TJepnblio, Bolivia, ami South Algeria.7. Eighty-one skins collected in Patagonia by Julius Koslowsky.Bought.from Mr. Uosenberg in London.The collection we purchased from Mr. Ventnri consists of 1115 beautifully prepared and well-labelled skins and several thousand eggs ; it is a very important one, inasmuch as it has been brought together during a number of years and in various parts of the Rejiublic.Most of the specimens are, however, from Barracas al Sud (province of Bnenos Aires), from Mocovi in the Chaco, Ocampo near the Rio Parana, on the edge of the Ohaco, and near Tncuman.I have not attempted to make a list of all the birds known to occur in the Argentine Hepubjic, bnt have only enumerated those of which s])ecimens exist at Tring-as far as I came across them -and those mentioned in Mr. Venturi's manuscript.Nevertheless, there cannot, be very many Argentine birds left unnoticed in this article, as I mention fluQ forms ; while Messrs. Sclater and Hudson's celebrated work, Aiu/entinc Ornithology (1888-0), contains only 434-species!The share of the two authors is much the same as in Messrs. Sclater and Hudson's work.I have critically examined the skins, and am finally responsible for their nomenclature, and all the nomenclatorial and systematic notes are by me ; while 1 have also sometimes added fuller descriptions and measurements of eggs wiiere it seemed important, and when these were rather short and cursorv in Mr. Venturi's notes.All the notes on niditication, habits, etc., and most of the descriptions of the eggs and theii' measurements, are by Mr. Ventnri.His notes are enclosed in inverted commas and signed " (S.V.)."Mr. Ventnri has, of conrse, also snp))lied the local names {noins vtilgaires), and added references to Mr. Xelirkorn's Kdtalofi der Eiersammlxn;/ (LS99) and to Dr. von Ihering's valuable article on the nests and eggs of the birds of Brazil, " Catalogo critico-comparativo dos ninlios e ovos das avcs do Brasil," in Rerista do Muscu Paiilista, iv.i)p.l!)l-:iii(i.There are hardly any countries on the surface of the earth that can excei>d tjio Argentine Uepublic in the variation of natural conditions and landscape.The territories of the Rejiublic extend from the cold and bleak shores of Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados (Staten Island) under o.5 southern latitude, where birds lielonging to the Antarctic regions are met with, to the hot Chaco, reaching as far as TZ -i.e.just into the tropics -and in the east to the province of Misiones, between the rivers Parana and Uruguay, as far as 'Zah .We have thus the fauna of the sea-shores, of the vast prairies, of the extensive forests, swamps, and mountains, rising to above oOno and even (JiiuO m. (Mount Aconquija, near Tucnman, in Atacama, Salta, Jujuy).The ornis of the mountains of Jujny and Salta is naturally more that of Bolivia than that of Argentina proper, and many sjiecies therefore occur in those regions which are not elsewhere found in the Argentine Republic.It is clear that such diti'erent countries are inhabited by different species and representative forms.An interesting fact is, that the ornis of the territory of Misione» is i[uit(t ilili'eient IVoai that of the central provinces (Buenos Aires, Eutre ( 161 ) Rios, etc.), and that it agrees with that of Soutiieni Brazil and I'araguay.I do not know exactly where the line of deiuareation between the fauna of Misiones and that of -zoogeogi'aphically sj)eaking -Argentina proper lies.J cannot conclude these remarks witiiout thanking Mr. Carl E. Helluiayr and Count Berlepsch for much help and trouble they took in b'uding me sjiecimens and giving good counsel about certain species.This article would have appeared long ago if I had not been exceptionally busy since I began to edit it ; many other occupations, new buildings and rearranging of collections and library, and my long trips to Algeria in 1908 and 190ft with Mr. Rothschild, necessitated lengthy interruptions of the work. ErnstHartert.]