. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Figure 17. Macaw, from a volume of paintings entitled The natural history of Jamaica by L. J. Robins (© The Earl of Derby). accompanies Walter Rothschild's quotation of Gosse's account of the Jamaican Macaw (and from which Rothschild took his 1905 type description), the bird clearly has a yellow crown, whereas Robins's Macaw seems only to have a yellow crest; nor does Robins's Macaw seem to match the plumage of the now-extinct Cuban Macaw Ara tricolor. Illustrations of extinct species, 3: the Great Auk This species, which became extinct in the 18
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Figure 17. Macaw, from a volume of paintings entitled The natural history of Jamaica by L. J. Robins (© The Earl of Derby). accompanies Walter Rothschild's quotation of Gosse's account of the Jamaican Macaw (and from which Rothschild took his 1905 type description), the bird clearly has a yellow crown, whereas Robins's Macaw seems only to have a yellow crest; nor does Robins's Macaw seem to match the plumage of the now-extinct Cuban Macaw Ara tricolor. Illustrations of extinct species, 3: the Great Auk This species, which became extinct in the 1840s, is known from mounted specimens, eggs and osteological material. However, much of its ecology and behaviour, as well as the story behind the bird's extinction, has been deduced from written accounts. Figure IX. Painting of a New Zealand Laughing Owl, by an unknown artist, from the Rothschild Library at Tring (© The Natural History Museum, London).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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