Abstract
THE completion of another illustrated Ornithological Monograph is an event worthy of record in the columns of NATURE, although the subjects of it are, perhaps, of somewhat limited interest to the scientific world in general. “Jacamars” and “Puff-birds” are, no doubt, well-known groups to the ornithologist, but confined as they are in life to the dense forests of South and Central America, and invisible to most persons even as inhabitants of our Zoological Gardens, their names certainly do not convey any very definite ideas to the uninitiated. We will, therefore, endeavour to explain in a few words what “Jacamars” and “Puff-birds” are.
A Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-birds, or Families Galbulidæ and Bucconidæ.
By P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., &c. 1 vol. roy. 4to, half-bound Morocco. (London: Dulau and Co., 1882.)
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Sclater's “Jacamars and Puff-Birds” . Nature 26, 499–500 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026499a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/026499a0