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Abstract

In the present issue of NOVEDADES COLOMBIANAS and in the previous issue, Mr. Carlos Lehmann and Mr. M. A. Carriker Jr. rectify several first records of birds found in Colombia. Mr. Carriker in NOVEDADES COLOMBIANAS No 2, 1955, pp. 48-64 and Mr. Lehmann in No. 3, 1957, pp. 154 and 155 make the rectifications, considering that some birds published by Schauensee and by Dugand and Borrero are not valid as first records since Carriker and Lehmann had collected these species prior to the published specimens. In other words, they consider that an animal captured before the published specimen, even if it remains undescribed for an indefinite period of time, is the first record. As far as I am concerned, there is no doubt that by first record is meant the specimen that for the first time officially comes to the public's knowledge. Because if it were according to the theory of Messrs. Carriker and Lehmann, there would remain as first records many animals captured by sport and commercial hunters without their data being published.