. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. C. T. Fisher & F E. Warr 150 Bull 2003 123A information to turn up. A clutch of White-tailed Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla eggs, now at the National Museum of Scotland (Fig. 11), is labelled in ink as having been collected at Ardnamurchan on 7 May 1874 and were apparently without further data when the private collection they were in was confiscated by the RSPB10. The collector's diary" was given to the NMS by a completely separate source at a later date and gives a more detailed account of the collection of these two eggs (Fig. 1
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. C. T. Fisher & F E. Warr 150 Bull 2003 123A information to turn up. A clutch of White-tailed Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla eggs, now at the National Museum of Scotland (Fig. 11), is labelled in ink as having been collected at Ardnamurchan on 7 May 1874 and were apparently without further data when the private collection they were in was confiscated by the RSPB10. The collector's diary" was given to the NMS by a completely separate source at a later date and gives a more detailed account of the collection of these two eggs (Fig. 12): * ... Simon Ross took a nest situated on the cliffs overhanging the sea on the farm of Grigadale about 2 miles south of the lighthouse and Point of Ardnamurchan ....'. Captive breeding records and studbooks: the first Budgerigar and Smalley's pigeons The first Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus to be hatched in captivity in Britain was the subject of a letter in 1848 from the 13th Earl of Derby to John Gould. Gould had imported the parent 'Sparrow Parakeets' from Australia for Lord Derby, for his aviaries at Knowsley Hall, near Liverpool. In 1840 Gould had been the first person to import live budgerigars successfully from Australia to Britain. Lord Derby's letter to Gould (Fig. 13) recorded that: I have the pleasure to tell you we have been overjoyed here by the fact of a Pair of the Melopsittacus undulatus breeding. It was first observed by Thompsons. Figure 10. Popham's diary, open at the page where he recorded that he had shot a parent Curlew Sandpiper off its nest in Siberia on 3 July 1897. The picture also shows the eggs from this nest, the clutch card, and four Curlew Sandpiper skins collected by Popham (©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
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