Excerpt from Birds of La Plata To return for a few moments to the writer on birds who came so long before me. Don Felix de Azara, a Spanish gentleman, a person of importance in his time, a traveller and author of several works, was yet able to find his chief pleasure in con versing with wild animals in desert places in a remote land. The bird life of those then little-known countries had a special attraction for him, and he was a most excellent observer and described them carefully. His brief notes on their habits are all the better to read on account of his simple natural diction, so rare to find in the Spanish language, the beauty and sonority of which perpetually tempts the writer to prolixity and a florid style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.