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Birds

 Subject

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

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Each-drai Chlann Uisne', 16 March 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/14
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Each-drai Chlann Uisne' [Eachdraidh Chlann Uisne] collected from Iain MacNeil [John MacNeil], aged 83 years, cottar, Buaile nam bodach [Buail nam Bodach/Bolnabodach, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. Carmichael describes him as 'aois 83 co-aois a Chorneil mhic Neil. He appears about 60 years'. The story tells how Seven folios of text have been written over transversely in blue ink, the first text being written in black ink. The blue ink text is a continuation of the story or as...
Dates: 16 March 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story entitled 'Ursgeul - An Sagairt agus Bean a Chiabair', 28 February 1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/25
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Ursgeul - An Sagairt agus Bean a Chiabair' collected from Manus Mac Neacail [Magnus Nicolson] Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. This tells how a boy finds a dead horse out on a moor. An eagle had started to eat its carcass but had got so full it could no longer fly so the boy takes the eagle with him. He comes across a shepherd's bothy and his wife lets him in. After a while the shepherd's wife sends the boy out into the snow, although he did not want...
Dates: 28 February 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Studies on the influence of sex hormones on the avian liver. 1. Sexual differences in avian liver clearance curves, 1957

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/73
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Studies on the influence of sex hormones on the avian liver. 2. Acute liver damage in the male fowl, and the protective effect of oestrogen, as determined by a liver function test, 1957

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/74
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Studies on the influence of sex hormones on the avian liver. 3. Oestrogen-induced regeneration of the chronically damaged liver, 1957

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/75
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Superstition about the bird 'Naosg' [snipe], 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/138
Scope and Contents

Superstition about the bird 'Naosg' [snipe] collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann that if it is heard in the morning, death comes earlier than if heard later on. Wives, on hearing the snipe ask 'where the grioglachan [Pleiades] is in the Skye (sic)' for telling the time. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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

Superstitions linking birds and death, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/83
Scope and Contents

Superstitions linking birds and death that if a dove is seen at the house of a dying person, this is a good sign but a raven is a bad sign. A small curlew predicts death and like the sand piper gives a sharp pipe or screech. On the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] a 'Glugabhas' is a bird that comes the night before a death. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

The avian caeca: a review, 1973

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Identifier: Coll-1362/3/818
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1973.

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

The effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on the proliferation and differentiation of avian chondrocytes maintained in vivo, 1994

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/410
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

The effect of pinealectomy on plasma LH concentration and courtship in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria), 1986

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/71
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1986. Part 2.

Dates: 1986
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)