[Field guide]

Title Variants

Alternative: Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia field guide

By

Macmillan, Lindsay.

American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection.
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[between 1935 and 1940]

Notes

Typescript and handwritten.

The field book includes a handwritten list of birds with both their scientific name, common name and locations either observed or collected. Also included is a hypothetical list for birds not previously recorded. Remaining content is typed with handwritten notations. Book contains detailed information for each bird listed including range of location, description, habitat, collecting guidelines and native name. The endpapers include notes in a hand other than Macmillan. Macmillan led the Whitney South Sea Expedition from 1935 to 1940. His wife Joy accompanied him and acted as assistant for part of the expedition.

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 collecting bird specimens. He left the Whitney expedition to join the Australian military during World War II.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

Subjects

(1920-1941) , Birds , Description and travel , Field notes , Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia) , Macmillan, Lindsay , Melanesia , Scientific Expeditions , Travel , Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museu

BHL Collections

BHL Field Notes Project

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.129251
OCLC: 953585022
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51405024