. The Avicultural magazine . BLACK-BILLED SHEATHBILL.( Cliionarrliim minor.). m^^ ■t^CAK • • ir_ OLLLLAlhU rUHKLY Photos, by Graham Renshaw, M,D. Adlard & West Newman. on the Ocellated Turkey. 113 captured in the Bay of Honduras. It was purchased for theParis Museum, and is probably still there. Cuvier described andfigured the new bird under the name of Meleagris ocellata; Temminckof Leyden, figured it as Plate 112 of his Planches years later this beautiful species was seen alive in London, ahen bird having been presented to the Zoo by the Earl of Ilchester. About this time th
. The Avicultural magazine . BLACK-BILLED SHEATHBILL.( Cliionarrliim minor.). m^^ ■t^CAK • • ir_ OLLLLAlhU rUHKLY Photos, by Graham Renshaw, M,D. Adlard & West Newman. on the Ocellated Turkey. 113 captured in the Bay of Honduras. It was purchased for theParis Museum, and is probably still there. Cuvier described andfigured the new bird under the name of Meleagris ocellata; Temminckof Leyden, figured it as Plate 112 of his Planches years later this beautiful species was seen alive in London, ahen bird having been presented to the Zoo by the Earl of Ilchester. About this time the thirteenth Earl of Derby was engaged informing his superb zoological collection at Knowsley Hall. TheDerby museum and menagerie became the largest and best in thekingdom ; the menagerie occupied one hundred acres of land andseventy acres of water, and cost over £15,000 a year in upkeep. Themuseum contained the first Apteryx seen out of New Zealand;five hundred birds, belonging to forty-five species, were bred in theaviaries. Lord Derby introduced the Black-nec
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