360 Lee and Nightingale—Expedition to the Galapagos Islands


in both the 8th and 9th International Ornithological Congresses held in

Oxford and Rouen.


Miss Barclay-Smith has visited most of the European collections

of birds both public and private and her knowledge of foreign languages

enables her to keep in touch with aviculturists and ornithologists

in all parts of the world.


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who keeps birds, as well as those who make interesting observations

on birds in the wild, should write an account of his or her experiences ;

so please do so.


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EXPEDITION TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS


By Lee and Nightingale


Two zoologists, who with four others are to spend six months

studying bird life on the lonely Galapagos Islands, off the West Coast

of South America, sailed from Liverpool in the P.S.N.C. liner

Reina del Pacifico. They were David Lambert Lack, the leader

of the expedition, and Mr. Hugh Thompson. They are travelling about

seven thousand miles to Ecuador in the Reina del Pacifico, and will

cross from the mainland of South America to the Galapagos Islands,

which are on the Equator, a voyage of about six hundred miles, in a

small ship.


The expedition is on behalf of the London Zoological Society and

the Royal Society. “We shall make our headquarters on an island

called ‘ Indefatigable ’ and we shall live in tents,” said Mr. Lack in

an interview at Liverpool. “ There are only a few people on the island,

about a dozen or so of various nationalities. We shall study the habits

of the living birds, and hope to be the first to bring back alive to England



