Produced by David Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY _200 copies printed_ [Illustration: Casuarius uniappendiculatus, _juv._] ESSAYS ON EARLY ORNITHOLOGY AND KINDRED SUBJECTS By JAMES R. McCLYMONT M.A., Author of 'Pedraluarez Cabral' 'Vicente Anes Pincon' _With Three Plates_ LONDON BERNARD QUARITCH LTD. 11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET 1920 CONTENTS PAGE The Rukh of Marco Polo 3 The Penguins and the Seals of the Angra de Sam Bras 7 The Banda Islands and the Bandan Birds 15 The Etymology of the Name 'Emu' 21 Australian Birds in 1697 25 New Zealand Birds in 1772 32 LIST OF PLATES I. CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, Blyth. (_juv._). _From an example in the British Museum of Natural History. By permission of the Director._ Frontispiece _This plate should be compared with that opposite p. 22, which represents a cassowary with two wattles--probably an immature Casuarius galeatus,_ Vieill. _for that is the species which is believed to have been brought alive to Europe by the Dutch in 1597. An immature example of that species was not available for reproduction._ II. ABRIS DES WVNDERBAREN VOGELS EME. _From the fifth edition of_ Erste Schiffart in die orientalische Indien so die hollaendische Schiff im Martio 1595 aussgefahren vnd im Augusto 1597 wiederkommen verzicht ... Durch Levinvm Hvlsivm. Editio Quinta. Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Maeyn durch Hartmann Palthenium in Verlegung der Hulfischen. Anno M.DC.XXV., _From a copy of the book in the British Museum. By permission of the Keeper of Printed Books._ p. 22 III. THE MASKED OR BLUE-FACED GANNET (_Sula cyanops_, _S. personata_). _From an example in the Royal Scottish Museum. By permission of the Director._ p. 35