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Argentine Ornithology, Volume 2 (of 2)
Philip Lutley Sclater and William Henry Hudson
Hummingbirds hang like jewels over the Argentine scrub, and this volume names them all. Sclater's second part covers the swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, and the glittering trochilidae, completing the survey of a continent's birds. Rich with W. H. Hudson's living observation. Finish the great catalog of Argentina's birdlife.
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61 chapters
- 1ARGENTINE ORNITHOLOGY. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. BY P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Etc. WITH NOTES ON THEIR HABITS BY W. H. HUDSON, C.M.Z.S., LATE OF BUENOS AYRES.
- 2VOLUME II.
- 3PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
- 4CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
- 5LIST OF PLATES IN VOL. II.
- 6ARGENTINE ORNITHOLOGY.
- 7Order II. MACROCHIRES.
- 8Fam. XX. TROCHILIDÆ, or HUMMING-BIRDS.
- 9Fam. XXI. CYPSELIDÆ, or SWIFTS.
- 10Fam. XXII. CAPRIMULGIDÆ, or GOATSUCKERS.
- 11Order III. PICI.
- 12Fam. XXIII. PICIDÆ, or WOODPECKERS.
- 13Order IV. COCCYGES.
- 14Fam. XXIV. ALCEDINIDÆ, or KINGFISHERS.
- 15Fam. XXV. TROGONIDÆ, or TROGONS.
- 16Fam. XXVI. BUCCONIDÆ, or PUFF-BIRDS.
- 17Fam. XXVII. CUCULIDÆ, or CUCKOOS.
- 18Fam. XXVIII. RHAMPHASTIDÆ, or TOUCANS.
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