Australian Museum Journal Notes on the oology of Lord Howe Island
- Shortform:
- North, 1889, Aust. Mus. Mem. 2(2): 43–48
- Author(s):
- North, Alfred J.
- Year published:
- 1889
- Title:
- Notes on the oology of Lord Howe Island
- Serial title:
- Australian Museum Memoir
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 43
- End page:
- 48
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1967.2.1889.480
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate i
- Date published:
- 31 December 1889
- Cover date:
- 31 December 1889
- ISSN:
- 0067-1967
- CODEN:
- AUNMA5
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- LORD HOWE ISLAND
- Digitized:
- 27 March 2009
- Available online:
- 01 April 2009
- Reference number:
- 480
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (101kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1113kb PDF)
Abstract
Our knowledge of the nesting and eggs of the Lord Howe Island birds is very limited, and until an excursion, fitted out by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, in September, 1887, very little had been done towards recording authentic information relative to the breeding season, or the eggs of the birds found there. Of the sixty species recorded in Dr. Ramsay's "List of birds found in Lord Howe Island," only eleven are strictly peculiar, and of only one of these is the nest and eggs known; much remains therefore to be done, and it is to be hoped that anyone favourably situated for acquiring further information, will not fail to make notes on this interesting subject.