THE BIRDS OF THE COCOS‐KEELING ISLANDS (INDIAN OCEAN)
- 3 April 1949
- Vol. 91 (2) , 221-243
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1949.tb02263.x
Abstract
Summary.: The birds of the Cocos‐Keeling Islands, in the Indian Ocean, are discussed in the light of specimens and data collected during a stay of eleven months in 1941. Seventeen species were found to be breeding. One of these was an indigenous land bird, four were land birds known to have been introduced, and the remainder were sea birds mostly confined to North Keeling. During this period examples of seventeen species of strays or visitors were taken, of which ten probably occur regularly though in small numbers, while the other seven are true vagrants. Eight of these birds have not so far been recorded from Christmas Island.Eleven birds listed from the islands by previous visitors were not present in 1941. Two of these were introduced but have failed to maintain themselves, and one, Egrctta garzetta nigripes, seems to be an occasional vagrant. The remaining eight records are all unsatisfactory.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Three voyages of a naturalistPublished by Biodiversity Heritage Library ,1908
- IV.—Supplementary Notes to the List of Birds collected by Mr. H. O. Forbes in the Island of JavaIbis, 1882