The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger Zoology 08 Report on the Birds

REPORT

of the

SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

of the

VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER
DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

under the command of
Captain GEORGE S. NARES, R.N. F.R.S.

and the late
Captain FRANK TOURLE THOMSON, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of

the late
Sir. C. WYVILLE THOMSON, Knt., F.R.S., &c.
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh
Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on board

and now of
JOHN MURRAY, LL.D., Ph. D. &c.
One of the naturalists of the expedition.

ZOOLOGY Part VIII

1881

Report on the Birds collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger in the Years 1873-1876.

by

Philip Lutley Sclater,
M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S.,
Secretary to the Zoological Society of London.

166pp. Illustrated with 30 full-color plates.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Volume 2, 1881.

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in the library holdings of
Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire.

June, 2004.

Ptilopus johannis, Male and Female,
From Plate X

A high resolution (800 ppi) world map showing the H.M.S. Challenger Track and Sounding Stations
is available here in three sections.
From Zoology Volume LIII, 1887.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1   001 002 003

CONTENTS 4 004

I. On the Birds collected in the Phillipine Islands. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., President of the Zoological Society of London, 5   005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024

II. On the Birds collected in the Admiralty Islands. By P.L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 25   025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033

III. On the Birds collected in Tongatabu, the Fiji Islands, Api (New Hebrides), and Tahiti. By Dr. O. Finsch, C.M.Z.S., 34   034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057

IV. On the Birds collected in Ternate, Amboyna, Banda, the Ki Islands, and the Arrou Islands. By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S., 58   058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083

V. On the Birds collected at Cape York, Australia, and on the Neighbouring Islands (Raine, Wednesday, and Booby Islands). By W.A. Forbes, F.Z.S.,   84   084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092

VI. On the Birds collected in the Sandwich Islands. By P.L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 93   093 094 095 096 097 098

VII. On the Birds collected in Antarctic America. By P.L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, M.S., F.R.S. 99   099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109

VIII. On the Birds collected on the Atlantic Islands and Kerguelen Island, and on the Miscellaneous Collection By P.L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 110   110 111 112 113 114 115 116

IX. On the Steganopedea and Impennas collected during the Expedition. By P.L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, M.S., F.R.S. 117   117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132

X. On the Laridæ collected during the Expedition. By Howard Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S.,   133   133 134 135 136 137 138 139

XI. On the Procellariidæ collected during the Expedition. By Osbert Salvin, M.S., F.R.S., &c. 140   140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149

APPENDIX

I. List of the Eggs collected during the Expedition By P.L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 150   150 151

II. Note on the Gizzard and other Organs of Carpophaga latrans. By A.H. Garrod, M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Zoological Society of London 152   152 153 154

Explanation of the Plates 155
        Plates I to VII 155
        Plates VIII to XVII 156
    Plates XVIII to XXVI 157
        Plates XXVII to XXX 158

Index 159 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166

PLATES.

For Descriptions, see the Explanation of the Plates, pp 155-158.

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