. The birds of South America . INTRODUCTION. The only previous list dealing with the birds of: South Ainorioa as a whole is thatpublished by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in 1873— Nomenclator, Avium Neo-tropicalinm —and although Central America, Mexico to Panama, and the GalapagosIslands were included in that list, the number oE species was only 35G5, while thepresent list recognises 4561 forms in South America alone. The names used in this List appear as binomials, but it must be clearly understood,however, that this system has been used only for convenience and does not mean that
. The birds of South America . INTRODUCTION. The only previous list dealing with the birds of: South Ainorioa as a whole is thatpublished by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in 1873— Nomenclator, Avium Neo-tropicalinm —and although Central America, Mexico to Panama, and the GalapagosIslands were included in that list, the number oE species was only 35G5, while thepresent list recognises 4561 forms in South America alone. The names used in this List appear as binomials, but it must be clearly understood,however, that this system has been used only for convenience and does not mean that we accept all the forms included here as being o£ specificvalue. Trinomials can only be determined by means oE monographic revision,and these will be used throughout the body o£ the forthcoming work. The nameshere given are thus of unequal value, and only represent the forms which have beenaccepted as valid species and subspecies by previous authors. The method used in the preparation of this List has been to verify the
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