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Birds

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 260 Collections and/or Records:

List entitled 'Toimhsegain' [Riddles], c1862

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/47
Scope and Contents

List entitled 'Toimhsegain' [Riddles] including riddles for things such as mist, hens, rainbow and the wind. A few corrections have been made to the text in ink and in pencil.

Dates: c1862
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

List of names and place-names connected with birds and a saying, 9 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/99
Scope and Contents

List written on Giodha [Giogha/Gigha, Earra Ghaidheal/Argyllshire] of bird names and place-names there and in Cinn Tìre/Kintyre connected with birds and a saying which reads 'Posadh thar beinn 's goisteac thar fo lingeara' and explaining 'Lingearac' as 'Midden'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 9 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

List of names of birds, 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/140
Scope and Contents

List of names of birds collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann including 'An Golcach = Puffin'; 'Deardain = Tern' in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye; and 'uiseag na traighe = a Bhothag - lives on wilks'.

Dates: 24 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Localisation and Ontogeny of Peptidergic Neurons in Birds. Edited by R. Jozsa B. Mess, 1993. 96pp. Akademicai Kiado, H-1519 Budapest, Hungary. [book review], 1994

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/591
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1994. Part 2.

Dates: 1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

Manipulation of the avian genome. Edited by R J Etches A M V Gibbins, 1993. 322 pp., illustrated in colour. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-4216-3 [Book review], 1994

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/340
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1994. Part 1.

Dates: 1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

Modified staining techniques for avian blood cells, 1990

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/768
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1990. Part 2.

Dates: 1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Molecular cloning of avian prolactins, July 1994

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/450
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1994. Part 1.

Dates: July 1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

Multipurpose perfusion apparatus, October 1973

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/825
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1973.

Dates: October 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Note about a cave 'Ua[mh] nan cathag nam casa dearg', August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/104
Scope and Contents

Note about a cave 'Ua nan cathag nam cas dearg' [Uamh na Cathaig, Lios Mòr/Lismore] said to contain stalagmites and stalactites. Close to it, at Salen [An Sàilean], is a well, which is covered at half-flood and on which 'lianaiach' [sea-ware] grows. The note states that the last of the bird 'cathag nan casa dearg' [chough] was killed by a Rankin in Fort William [An Gearasdan, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire]. An illustration, possibly of a feather, is included.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about birds found on Islay, 4 June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/5
Scope and Contents Note about birds found on Islay including 'Catheag C- bheag nan cudainean' [possibly cathag-dhearg chasach the red-legged crow or chough] describing how it catches its food from the sea; a note on the fhaoilean [faoileann or seagull]; the call of the brid [oyster-catcher]; that the loinean [blackbirds] are the same size as druidean [starlings] and that 'No dog will eat the bone of the truide[ag]' [druideag or starling] because a starling 'gave seed to the prophet of old' and the prophet gave...
Dates: 4 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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