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TO European oologists, the name of John Wolley is both well known and held in great esteem, for not only was he one of our soundest and best ornithologists, especially in the field, but also was one of the first egg collectors who fully realised the extreme importance of securing the identification of the parent bird, of carefully, and if possible indelibly, marking each egg when taken, so as to avoid all risk of error, and of procuring and noting down the fullest possible information respecting each clutch, as well as of collecting a series of specimens to show all the variety of colour, size and shape to which eggs of the same species are subject. Collectors will therefore gladly welcome the present part, which completes the first volume of the “Ootheca Wolleyana.”
Ootheca Wolleyana.
An Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs formed by the late John Wolley jun.. Edited from the Original Notes by Alfred Newton. Part ii., Picariæ—Passeres. (London: R. H. Porter, 1902.)
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Ootheca Wolleyana . Nature 67, 219–220 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067219a0
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