The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, Volume 4The Union, 1905 |
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Página 179 - ... Biological Survey, contains the following statement: "For more than two thousand years the phenomena of bird migration have been noted, but while the extent and course of the routes traveled have of late become better known, no conclusive answer has been found to the question, why do birds migrate? . . . The broad statement can be made that the beginnings of migration ages ago were intimately connected with periodic changes in the food supply, but this motive is at present so intermingled with...
Página 150 - Emu A Quarterly Magazine to popularise the Study and Protection of Native Birds. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ORNITHOLOGISTS
Página 142 - ... would render the work as exact as it is possible to make a complex 'index. Besides the value of these plans for the Catalogue itself, they keep the Institution in relation with the entire body of scientific workers in the United States and incidentally result in considerable accessions to the Library. The supreme control of the Catalogue is vested in an international convention, and during the interval between two successive meetings of the convention the administration is conducted by an international...
Página 179 - I would like to see all harmless wild things, but especially all birds, protected in every way. I do not understand how any man or woman who really loves nature can fail to try to exert all influence in support of such objects as those of the Audubon Society. Spring would not be spring without bird songs, any more than it would be spring without buds and flowers, and I only wish that besides protecting the songsters, the birds of the grove, the orchard, the garden and the meadow, we could also protect...
Página 55 - Government banana plantation, and on large streams, the writer often perceived hosts of swifts (Collocalia terrcefmncica) appear an hour before sunset, darting rapidly hither and thither, as if feeding on minute insects of the air. This generally occurred during the wet season, November to February. It was from the same point — Cape Nelson — that a coming "blow " from the southward was always heralded some hours before by the appearance of a few frigate birds (Frcrjata ayuila), which hovered...
Página 54 - Snipe (Gallinngo'australis) have been shot on the northeast coast, where in January they are found when migrating, though from whence, and whither bound, it is hard to say. Wild duck, too. are plentiful in the same locality. On the south coast and in the Gulf district small duck with a broad patch of white on the wing, and a variety about the size of teal have been obtained. Vide extract of an expedition up the Morehead River, western...
Página 57 - ... has its playground. Respecting the " death bird " of New Guinea, too much credence should not be indulged in until confirmed. Native myths are numerous and extraordinary, even precise in details. The moon, we are impressively told by some Papuans, was originally found in the soil by one of their number, who, in attempting to carry the luminary to his village barely escaped with his life through not relinquishing the prize as it ascended heavenward. BM 1904 27 BIRD SANCTUARIES OF NEW ZEALAND.
Página 56 - ... would be quite GO to 70 miles an hour, if not more. Mr. Louis Beck, writing in the Pall Mall Gazette, mentions the frigate bird as the swiftest of all sea birds, and in some of the equatorial isles of the Pacific it is used as a letter carrier. Taken from the nest before it can fly, it is hand fed on a fish diet by the natives, and in the course of a few months becomes so tame that it can be liberated during the day and will return to its perch at sunset. In the records of the London Missionary...
Página 77 - FZS —On the Birds collected by Mr Robert Hall, of Melbourne, on the Banks of the Lena River between Gigalowa and its Mouth.