Identifier: ornithologicalmi03rowl (find matches)
Title: Ornithological miscellany
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Rowley, George Dawson, 1822-1878 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Walther, T., lithographer Allen, Edgar W., lithographer Smith, J., lithographer Erxleben, J., lithographer Hanhart, Michael, printer of plates Hanhart, N, printer of plates Chase, Robert William, former owner. DSI Mackintosh, Duncan Robert, former owner. DSI Mintern Bros., printer of plates
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ed it* by shootingone. Bailey told me it was only about the third year that Stock Doveshad nested in their cliffs. THE JACKDAW. One of the most abundant breeders on the cliffs of Flamborough, anda great enemy to the eggs of other birds. Before the Bird-Act, whenthe Guillemots were much shyer, the descent of a man was generallyenough to frighten them off the ledges ; and then, Lowney tells me, thethievish Jackdaws made spoil of their eggs. I have seen the shellswhich these knaves have carried to the top of the cliff and left theref.Sometimes a Jackdaw more bold than the rest attacks a Kittiwake; andthen a hard fight ensues ; but the same authority tells me that the Kittiwakesget the best of it. As an old cliff-climber of many years standing, he bearsa great spite against these feathered rivals ; and the old chap never lets anopportunity slip of destroying both them and their eggs. * Zoologist/ s. s. vol. xi. p. 5040. f Cf. Zoologist/ s. s. vol. xi. p. 4957. ORMITHOLOGIUAL MlSCh.LLAirf.
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J-G.KculemaTis litK- Hanhart -iinp. ODONTOPHORUS CINCTUS, Salv^iz.. ODONTOPHORUS CINCTUS (Sahin). By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY.(Plate LXXXVI.) The following appeared in The Ibis, 3rd ser. vol. vi. (1876) pp. 379, 380 :— XXXVI.— On two additional Species of Central-American Odontophorinse.By OsBERT Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Through Mr. Boucards kindness I have lately been able to add to ourCentral-American collection of birds two species of Odontophorinse—one ofwhich is the tolerably common South-American Eupsychortyx leucotis, theother a species of Odontophorus which I do not hesitate to describe belowas new. The two specimens (one of each species) were contained in twocollections evidently made by our late collector, Enrique Arce, in Veragua,one of which came directly, and the other indirectly into Mr. Boucards hands.Both from the style in which the skins are made up, and from the birdskinsassociated with them, there cannot be the slightest doubt as to their origin. (Here follows th

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