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Title: Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects

Author: James R. McClymont

Release Date: February 4, 2008 [EBook #24506]

Language: English

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ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY

_200 copies printed_

[Illustration: Casuarius uniappendiculatus, _juv._]

ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY
AND KINDRED SUBJECTS

By
JAMES R. McCLYMONT
M.A., Author of 'Pedraluarez Cabral'
'Vicente Anes Pincon'

_With Three Plates_

LONDON
BERNARD QUARITCH LTD.
11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET

1920

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Rukh of Marco Polo 3
The Penguins and the Seals of the Angra de Sam Bras 7
The Banda Islands and the Bandan Birds 15
The Etymology of the Name 'Emu' 21
Australian Birds in 1697 25
New Zealand Birds in 1772 32

LIST OF PLATES

I. CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, Blyth. (_juv._). _From
an example in the British Museum of Natural History.
By permission of the Director._ Frontispiece

_This plate should be compared with that
opposite p. 22, which represents a cassowary
with two wattles--probably an immature Casuarius
galeatus,_ Vieill. _for that is the species which
is believed to have been brought alive to Europe
by the Dutch in 1597. An immature example of
that species was not available for
reproduction._

II. ABRIS DES WVNDERBAREN VOGELS EME. _From the fifth
edition of_ Erste Schiffart in die orientalische
Indien so die hollaendische Schiff im Martio 1595
aussgefahren vnd im August