BIRD SKINS COLLECTION.
SPECIMENS FOR MUSEUM.
[BY. TELEGRAPH. CORRESPONDENT.] > I CHEISTCEUBCH. Wednesday. A valuable collection of • bird skins has recently been . received by the Canterbury Museum, in exchange, from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The collection comprises 28 specimens, representing 22 species/ , Most of the specimens were collected by the Whitney South Sea expedition of the American Museum and are of special interest to New Zealand ; ornithologist? in that they are sea birds which .have closely related forms around our own. coasts. •'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 10
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