Excerpt from Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions, to Patagonia, Vol. 3: 1896-1899
The area covered by the present report includes that portion of Argentina situated south of south latitude 40°, Tierra del Fuego, and the southern part of the Chilian Territory of Magellan, or that portion of it lying west of Tierra del Fuego. The main Andean chain thus forms the western boundary. Its basis is primarily the collections made by the Princeton Expeditions, gathered mainly in the Territory of Santa Cruz, to which material it was intended at first to restrict the report. Later it seemed desirable to extend the scope to include what seems to be a fairly well marked faunal region. Finally, to impart to it something of the character of a monograph, and perhaps thus add to its usefulness, it was decided to include not only full bibliographical references, but also, in most instances, descriptions of the species, and such accounts of their life histories as could be conveniently brought together, including especially the field notes of the collectors.
The Princeton Expedition's collections of mammals were made partly on the coast, and partly in the interior at the eastern base of the Andes, by O. A. Peterson in 1897, and Mr. E. A. Colburn in 1898, and aggregate about 600 specimens. A few specimens collected by Mr. Barnum Brown in 1899, and by him presented to the American Museum of Natural History, and various specimens belonging to the U. S. National Museum have also been utilized, while great assistance has been derived from the examination of the material from this and adjoining parts of South America in the British Museum.
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