Nests and eggs : Aniwa and Tanna islands

Title Variants

Alternative: Daily log, nest and eggs

By

Macmillan, Lindsay.

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection.
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1935 and 1936]

Notes

Pages are numbered 32 to 183; page 38 to 183 are blank.

List of specimen data while on expedition in Tanna and Aniwa. Daily log includes information on various nests and eggs collected and observed. Macmillan led the Whitney South Sea Expedition from 1935 to 1940 and his wife Joy accompanied him on the expedition, acting as assistant.

Lindsay Macmillan was trained by A.J. Marshall, a well-known Australian ornithologist. Before joining the expedition, Macmillan was already well-versed in skinning and collection bird specimens. He left the expedition to join the Australian military during World War II.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

Subjects

(1920-1941) , Aniwa Island , Birds , Description and travel , Eggs , Field notes , Macmillan, Lindsay , Melanesia , Nests , Scientific Expeditions , Tanna Island , Travel , Vanuatu , Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museu

BHL Collections

BHL Field Notes Project

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.128521
OCLC: 961274087
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51404528