A list of the diurnal birds of prey : with references and annotations; also a record of specimens preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum / by John Henry Gurney.

  • Gurney, John Henry, 1819-1890.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A list of the diurnal birds of prey : with references and annotations; also a record of specimens preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum / by John Henry Gurney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In concluding, in the ‘ Ibis'* for 1882, p. 598, my Notes on Mr. Sharpens ‘ Catalogue of the Diurnal Birds of Prey in the British Museum/ I mentioned my intention of supple- menting them hy a tabular index for the convenience of future reference; it subsequently occurred to me that it might be useful to combine with this index a list of the several species and subspecies of Diurnal Birds of Prey, so far as I am acquainted with them, and to add references to a few of the works in which they have been figured, described, or otherwise noticed. This enlargement of my original intention and consequent increase of bulk has necessitated the publication of the following pages in a separate form rather than, as was originally proposed, in a number of the f Ibis/ I have thought it convenient to arrange my matter in columns, of which the first contains the list of species or subspecies1 and also the references to Mr. Sharpe’s Cata- logue; the second column refers to my Notes on that work, and to some other Notes which I have contributed to the pages ot the ‘Ibis’; the third comprises miscellaneous 1 riiose species and subspeeies which I have not personally examined are marked with an asterisk, and those as to the validity of which 1 feel some doubt with a note of interrogation.
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