Guide and Pattern for the Classification of Argentinean and Neotropical Ornithological Bibliography

Abstract

In this paper, 79 works related to Ornithology, published in Neotropica (Notas Zoológicas Americanas, Sociedad Zoológica del Plata, La Plata, Argentina) between 1954 and 1978 (Vol. 1, N° 1 to Vol. 24, N° 72), are analyzed and classified to serve as a guide and model for preparing and publishing an exhaustive compilation of the Systematized Argentinean Neotropical Ornithological Bibliography. Of these works, 2 (2.5%) refer to Anatomy, 25 (31.7%) to Taxonomy, 32 (40.5%) to Zoogeography, 1 (1.3%) to Biology, 17 (21.5%) to Ecology (including Bird Banding and Migration), and 2 (2.5%) to Applied Ornithology. Papers with affinities to more than one subject were not double-counted when calculating percentages. These studies cover 579 species and subspecies belonging to the following 64 families: Spheniscidae (8), Rheidae (1), Tinamidae (31), Podicipedidae (4), Diomedeidae (6), Phalacrocoracidae (7), Ardeidae (10), Ciconiidae (2), Threskiornithidae (4), Phoenicopteridae (1), Anhimidae (1), Anatidae (31), Accipitridae (13), Falconidae (5), Cracidae (5), Phasianidae (3), Aramidae (1), Rallidae (12), Jacanidae (1), Rostratulidae (1), Haematopodidae (2), Recurvirostridae (1), Charadriidae (6), Scolopacidae (30), Phalaropodidae (1), Stercorariidae (8), Laridae (22), Rynchopidae (1), Columbidae (17), Psittacidae (5), Cuculidae (8), Tytonidae (1), Strigidae (11), Caprimulgidae (13), Apodidae (2), Trochilidae (13), Alcedinidae (3), Momotidae (1), Bucconidae (1), Ramphastidae (2), Picidae (14), Dendrocolaptidae (5), Furnariidae (36), Formicariidae (11), Conopophagidae (2), Rhinocryptidae (1), Cotingidae (3), Pipridae (4), Tyrannidae (62), Phytotomidae (2), Hirundinidae (10), Corvidae (1), Troglodytidae (2), Mimidae (3), Turdidae (15), Sylviidae (1), Motacillidae (4), Ploceidae (1), Vireonidae (1), Icteridae (17), Parulidae (6), Coerebidae (2), Thraupidae (17), and Fringillidae (63). Drawings representing the results and statistics obtained in this study are attached.