General notes on South Pacific island groups
By: Charles W. Richmond
Contributors: American Museum of Natural History; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Whitney South Sea Expeditions Collection; Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941)
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941); Scientific expeditions; Travel; Birds; Description and travel
Description: General notes and lists of birds in various areas of the South Pacific. Vol. 1 deals with Tuamotu, Marquesas, Line, Caroline Atoll, Harvey or Cook, and includes general notes and other lists of Rapa and vicinity, the Samoan group, clues to the identity of South Pacific birds, and the islands east and northeast of Samoa. Vol. 2 deals with  Fiji, Rotuma and vicinity, Horne islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Banks, Santa Cruz, Tokelau or Union, and Uvea or Wallace, and includes a general index to both volumes 1 and 2.
Notes: Bound volumes.

Typescript, based on original notes.

Cataloged through a 2015 Leon Levy Foundation Archives grant.

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Richmond was an accomplished ornithologist, excelling in the naming of new birds and species. His lifetime work includes the Richmond Index, a card catalog of detailed bird species data he maintained for over 40 years.

Finding aid available for the Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History Collection.

Part of the AMNH Ornithology Archives.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 1920-1923; title: v. 2. 1924-1926.