In 1948, American ornithologist Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee began publishing what would be the most complete list of birds from Colombia that had ever been printed up to that time. His work was called The Birds of the Republic of Colombia (TBRC), and at the invitation of Armando Dugand, the director of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and of the Caldasia journal, this work was exclusively published in the journal in five installments spanning four years. This paper analyzes the publishing aspects that particularly influenced the process of carrying out this work, with the objective of showing that scientific practices and publishing practices are not two absolutely separate domains. The circuit of communication present in TBRC's development is analyzed, specifically the efforts of the editor, printer and author to bring this work to fruition. This analysis demonstrates the following: (i) how the scientific interests of Meyer and the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales converge, (ii) the contradictions between scientific interests that promoted the publication of TBRC and the publishing rationale of a journal and (iii) how unforeseen publishing issues of the time, such as the increase in printing costs due to inflation, influenced the final structure of the work.

1948年，美国鸟类学家Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee开始出版当时最完整的哥伦比亚鸟类名单。他的作品被称为哥伦比亚共和国的鸟类（TBRC），应哥伦比亚国立大学和Caldasia的自然科学研究所所长Armando Dugand的邀请期刊，这项工作在四年中分五期在期刊上独家发表。本文分析了出版方面，这些方面尤其影响了这项工作的进行，目的是证明科学实践和出版实践不是两个绝对独立的领域。分析了TBRC发展中存在的交流回路，特别是编辑，印刷商和作者为使这项工作取得成果所做的努力。该分析表明：（i）迈耶大学和自然科学研究院的科学利益是如何融合的；（ii）促进TBRC出版的科学利益与期刊的出版原理之间的矛盾；以及（iii）不可预见的发布当时的问题，