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Nests and eggs : Aniwa and Tanna islands

by: Macmillan, Lindsay; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection; American Museum of Natural History; Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Publication date: 1935

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Topics: Birds, Nests, Eggs, Description and travel, Travel, Scientific expeditions, Macmillan, Lindsay, Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941), Birds, Birds, Description and travel, Description and travel, Travel, Travel, Scientific expeditions, Scientific expeditions

Collection: fieldnotesclir2016; amnhfieldbooks; biodiversity; americanmuseumnaturalhistory

Contributor: American Museum of Natural History Library

Language: English

Rights: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions

Rights-holder: American Museum of Natural History Library

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

Part of AMNH Ornithology Archives

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant

Abstract: 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.