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Common terms and phrasesAfrica April Baird Bendire Biol Birds Afr Birds Austr Birds B. M. x. p. Birds B. M. xii Birds B. M. xiii Birds North breadth broad end broad oval Centr.-Amer colour Corvus Crowley Bequest devoid of gloss Dresser E. C. Stuart Baker eggs Eggs Austr Eier Eiersamml Ernest Gibson examples measure F. J. Jackson Faroe Islands Faun Fauna Brit Foochow Genus Godm Gould Coll greenish-white ground ground-colour Hargitt Coll Hartert Hume Coll Ibis Icterus Iland-l. v. p. June larger end lavender lavender-grey Layard length lilac-grey Linn markings measure respectively Middle Amer moderately glossy mottled Munia Nehrk Nests North America pale Pegu Plate pointed oval form pointed oval shape purplish-grey Radcliffe Saunders reddish-brown regular oval shape Ridgw Salvin-Godman Coll Seebohm Coll Sharpe Shelley slightly glossy speckled spotted and blotched Thien Tristram Coll umber-brown Valkenswaard vary Popular passagesPage 8 - Catalogue of the Birds of the Tropical Islands of the Pacific Ocean in the Collection of the British Museum. Page 29 - No. 4. — Memorials of Charles Darwin : a Collection of Manuscripts, Portraits. Medals, Books, and Natural History Specimens to commemorate the Centenary of his Birth and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Page 26 - Guide to the Domesticated Animals (other than Horses) exhibited in the Central and North Halls of the British Museum (Natural History). [By R. Lydekker, FRS] Illustrated by 24 Figures. Page 23 - Part III. Containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the Orders Chondrostei (concluded), Protospondyli, Aetheospondyli, and Isospondyli (in part). Pp. xlii., 544. 45 Woodcuts and 18 Plates. [With Alphabetical Index, and Systematic Index of Genera and Species.] 1895, 8vo. Page 7 - Woodcuts and 7 coloured Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1896, 8vo. 11. 5s. Vol. XXV. Catalogue of the Gaviae and Tubinares in the Collection of the British Museum. Gaviae (Terns, Gulls, and Skuas), by Howard Saunders. Tubinares (Petrels and Albatrosses), by Osbert Salvin. Pp. xv., 475. Woodcuts and 8 coloured Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1896... Page 18 - Pp. vii., 192. 30 Collotype and 4 Lithographic Plates. [With Systematic Index, Index of Generic and Specific Names, and Explanation of the Plates.] 1897, 4to. Page 24 - A Catalogue of British Fossil Crustacea, with their Synonyms and the Range in Time of each Genus and Order. Page 7 - Limicolse in the Collection of the British Museum. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, Pp. xii., 794. Woodcuts and 7 coloured Plates. [With Systematic and Alphabetical Indexes.] 1896, 8vo. 11. Page 27 - A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History). Page 23 - A descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum, Egypt. Based on the Collection of the Egyptian Government in the Geological Museum, Cairo, and on the Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London. Bibliographic information |