Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects, by James R. McClymont This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects Author: James R. McClymont Release Date: February 4, 2008 [EBook #24506] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY *** Produced by David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) i ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY i i 200 copies printed i v Casuarius uniappendiculatus, juv. v ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY AND KINDRED SUBJECTS BY JAMES R. McCLYMONT M.A., AUTHOR OF ‘PEDRALUAREZ CABRAL’ ‘VICENTE AÑES PINÇON’ WITH THREE PLATES LONDON BERNARD QUARITCH LTD. 11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET 1920 v i i CONTENTS PAGE The Rukh of Marco Polo 3 The Penguins and the Seals of the Angra de Sam Bràs 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 31 i x LIST OF PLATES I. Casuarius uniappendiculatus, Blyth. (juv.) . From an example in the British Museum of Natural History.