Essays on Early Ornithology and Kindred Subjects (Classic Reprint)

CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, Blyth. (juv.). From an example in the British Museum of Natural History. By permisslon of the Director. . Frontispiece This plate should be compared witlt that opposite p. 22, whith represents a cassowary with two wattles-probably all immature Casuarius galeatus, Vieill. for that £s the species which is believed to have been brought alive to Europe by the Dutch in 1597. An £mmature example oj that speeles was not avaz'lable jor reproduction. ABRIS DES WVNDERBAREN VOGELS EME. From the fifth edition of Erste Schiffart in die orientalische Indien so die hollandische Schiff im Martio 1595 aussgefahren vnd im Augusto 1597 wiederkommen verzicht ... Durch Levinvm Hvlsivrn. Editio Quinta. Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn durch Hartmann Palthenium in Verlegung der H ulfischen. Anno M.DC.xxv., From a copy of the book in the British Museum. By permission of the Keeper of Printed Books. . p.22 THE MASKED OR BLUE-FACED GANNET (Sula cyanops, S. personat

Table of Contents

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

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