Argentine Ornithology Volume Ii Part 45

Dr. Leybold was resident in Santiago, Chili, for some years, and sent bird-skins and other objects of natural history to Munich for sale in Europe. He published two papers on supposed new birds obtained by his collectors during their excursions from Chili to Mendoza.

(1) Beschreibung von vier neuen Vogelarten aus der Argentinischen Provinz Mendoza. Journ. f. Orn. 1865, pp. 401-406.

[Describes as new _Synallaxis cra.s.sirostris_, _Myiarchus fasciatus_, _Sporophila rufirostris_, and _Phrygilus ornatus_, from Mendoza. These species are all referred to in our work.]

(2) Beschreibungen einiger Thiere und Pflanzen aus den Anden Chile's und der Argentinischen Provinzen. Leopoldina, viii. p. 52 (1873).

[This paper contains descriptions of _Conurus glaucifrons_, from San Luis (=_Conurus acuticaudatus_), _Colaptes leucofrenatus_ (=_Chrysoptilus cristatus_), and _Columbina aurisquamata_ (=_Metriopelia aymara_), all from Mendoza.]

ORBIGNY, ALCIDE D'.

Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale (le Bresil, la Republique Orientale, de l'Uruguay, la Republique Argentine, la Patagonie, la Republique du Chili, la Republique de Bolivia, la Republique du Perou), execute pendant les Annees 1826-33. Vol. IV. Oiseaux.

Paris, 1835-44. 4to, 396 pp., 66 pl.

After Azara's 'Apuntamientos' this is the most important of the older publications relating to Argentine ornithology. The celebrated French traveller and naturalist d'Orbigny made extensive collections of birds in several parts of the Argentine Republic, especially in Corrientes, on the Parana, near Buenos Ayres, and on the Rio Negro. The birds were worked out by himself after his return home, with the a.s.sistance of the well-known French ornithologist the Baron F. de la Fresnaye. The list of them, with the descriptions of the new species, was first published in two consecutive volumes of the 'Magasin de Zoologie' (for 1837 and 1838), with a separate t.i.tle[13] and separately paged. It was unfortunately never completed, and contains only the Accipitres, Pa.s.seres, and Picariae. The valuable notes and remarks of d'Orbigny were subsequently published in the fourth volume of his 'Voyage,' of which the t.i.tle is given above. This work also, as is much to be regretted, was brought to a sudden termination when only half finished.

[13] Synopsis avium ab Alcide d'Orbigny in ejus per Americam meridionalem itinere collectarum et ab ipso viatore necnon A. de la Fresnaye.

D'Orbigny's types are now mostly in the French National Collection at Paris, though a few of them, which cannot be found there, are supposed to have been retained in the De la Fresnaye Collection, and if so are now in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History.

PAGE, Capt. T. J.

See Ca.s.sIN, _supra_, p. 223.

SALVIN, OSBERT.

A List of Birds collected by the late Henry Durnford during his last Expedition to Tuc.u.man and Salta. Ibis, 1880, p. 351.

The collection consisted of 84 specimens belonging to 54 species, obtained in June 1878 at Tuc.u.man or near Salta. Nine were new to Dr.

Burmeister's list. See also DURNFORD, _supra_, p. 224.

SCHULZ, FRITZ.

Herr Fritz Schulz, an a.s.sistant in the museum of the University of Cordoba, brought a fine collection of birds to Europe in 1883, which he had made in Tuc.u.man and other northern provinces of the Republic. The new species were described by Dr. Cabanis (see above, p. 223), except a single species described by Schulz himself.

Ueber eine neue _Cnipolegus_-Art. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, p. 462.

[Describes _Cnipolegus cabanisi_ from Tuc.u.man.]

SCLATER, P. L.

(1) Exhibition of Specimens of _Heliomaster angelae_, and Notes thereupon by Prof. Burmeister. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 466.

[The specimens were obtained near Buenos Ayres, where it is "not uncommon." Dr. Burmeister also refers to _Chlorostilbon phaethon_.]

(2) On some new or little-known Birds from the Rio Parana. P. Z. S.

1870, p. 57.

[Some of the specimens procured during Capt. Page's expedition (see Ca.s.sIN, _supra_, p. 223) are remarked on. Of these _Coryphistora alaudina_ is figured and _Cnipolegus cinereus_ is described as new.]

(3) Exhibition of a Skin of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (_Coccyzus america.n.u.s_) from Buenos Ayres. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 496.

[The specimen was shot by Hudson in the district of Quilmes, in April 1870.]

(4) Notice of a small Collection of Birds forwarded by Dr. Adolf Doring, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Cordova. P.

Z. S. 1879, pp. 460-461.

[The collection contained examples of nine species from the vicinity of Cordova.]

(5) On two new Species of Birds discovered by Mr. E. W. White in the Argentine Republic. Ibis, 1881, p. 599, pl. xvii.

[Describes and figures _Poospiza erythrophrys_ from Catamarca, and _Synallaxis whitii_ from Oran.]

SCLATER, P. L., and SALVIN, O.

(1) List of Birds collected at Conchitas, Argentine Republic, by Mr.

William H. Hudson. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 137.

[This article gives a list of 98 species, determined from specimens sent to the Smithsonian Inst.i.tution by Hudson.]

(2) Second List of Birds collected at Conchitas, Arg. Rep., by Mr. W.

H. Hudson; together with some Notes upon another Collection from the same locality. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 158.

[This article contains the results of an examination of a second collection from the same locality, likewise belonging to the Smithsonian Inst.i.tution, and adds 14 species to the former list. It also gives an account of a collection made by Mr. Haslehurst near Buenos Ayres, which contains examples of 10 species not up to that date transmitted by Hudson.]

(3) Third List of Birds collected at Conchitas, Arg. Rep., by Mr. W.

H. Hudson. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 631.

[Hudson's third collection sent to the Smithsonian Inst.i.tution contained examples of 92 species, of which 33 were additional to those contained in the two former lists. Thus the total number of species of the district of Quilmes is raised to 143.]

WEISSHAUPT, ALBERT.

Herr Weisshaupt was a German collector at Santiago, Chili, who came several times to London with fine collections of living animals (see P.

Z. S. 1870, p. 664, and 1871, p. 700). He made one or more excursions to Mendoza from Santiago, and collected bird-skins in the vicinity of that city. Many of these skins were acquired by Messrs. Salvin and G.o.dman and myself respectively and are in our collections.

WHITE, ERNEST WILLIAM.

Ernest William White was another active worker in Argentine ornithology, whose untimely death we have lately had occasion to deplore[14]. During five years' journeyings in the northern provinces of the Republic White made very extensive collections and acc.u.mulated a ma.s.s of excellent notes, which are published in the following papers:--

[14] For biographical notice of this naturalist see Ibis, 1885, p. 335.