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Birds

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

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/6
Scope and Contents Legend about the dreolan or wren and the Irish army that when the English were asleep and the Irish were about to attack them during the night [at the Battle of the Boyne] the wren began eating crumbs on the drummer's head, waking him up and allowing him to alert the English to the attack. Consequently, 'the irish take a day in the year to kill the Dreathan (wren (St Pat[rick]?)' [referring to Wren Day or St Stephen's Day, 26 December]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to...
Dates: 4 June 1887

Letter from F.G. Hedges, 1922

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Identifier: Coll-2099/2/2/3/1/1/7
Scope and Contents

A letter from F.G. Hedges, a bird dealer, to T.H. Gillespie offering to supply birds or animals. Dated 30th September 1922.

Dates: 1922

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander William Mair, 07 December 1919

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/25/2
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Mair discusses options in potential Latin and Greek nomenclature relating to the wings and feathers of birds.

Dates: 07 December 1919

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Dorothy Thursby-Pelham, 12 May [1922]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/28/8
Scope and Contents Thursby-Pelham writes that she would happily let Ewart use her drawings for his work on the Antarctic Penguin, but that strictly speaking they are the property of Mrs Assheton, as Thursby-Pelham drew them whilst working as Dr Assheton's assistant. Mrs Assheton has written to Harmer to grant the required permission. She offers Ewart her collection of bird embryos which she acquired for the purpose of comparison with the penguins. The date is not written on the letter, but is...
Dates: 12 May [1922]

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from [N.] Bassett, 19 April 1929

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/35/5
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Bassett asks Ewart where he can trace the authority for Ewart's assertion in his 1920 lecture that the only bird in the world to have the rudiments of teeth in its mouth was 'Springops' [sic] the New Zealand parrot. He has examined 20 stuffed specimens in the Christchurch Museum but the mouths were not well preserved enough.

Dates: 19 April 1929