Abstract
THE eighth volume, comprising 533 pages of text, of the Boletin do Museu Goeldi (Museu Paraense) is devoted to a catalogue of the birds of Amazonia—Catalogo das Ayes Amazonicas—by Dr. E. Snethlage. The author, who joined the staff of the museum at Para in 1905, commenced work on this catalogue very soon after his arrival, and devoted to it a large portion of his time during the following half-dozen years. Fortunately, the collection of bird-skins in the museum—Some 10,000 in number—is sufficiently comprehensive to have enabled him to accomplish his task on a thoroughly scientific and first-hand basis. The result is a work which forms a worthy companion to Dr. Ridgway'S “Birds of North and Middle America”, albeit in an absolutely and relatively smaller compass. The author is, indeed, to be congratulated on the conciseness of the generic and specific diagnosis and the clearness of the “keys”.
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L., R. Ornithological Notes . Nature 94, 264–265 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094264a0
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