Two specimens in Royal BC Museum. Photograph by Michael Wall. No. 12756 [bottom]: whimbrel (Family: scolopacidae; binomial name: numenius phaeopus), collected by Hamilton Mack Laing, Comox, April 26, 1927. No. 8889 [top]: long-billed curlew ((Family: scolopacidae; binomial name: numenius americanus), collected by Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Oliver, May 30, 1941.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• Wall, Michael

Contributor

• Laing, Hamilton M. (Hamilton Mack), 1883-1982
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Long-billed curlew
• Whimbrel
• Zoological specimens
• Birds

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_431; No. 8889; No. 12756

Date created

• 1927 to 1941

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : colour

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Oliver
• British Columbia--Comox

Coordinates

• 49.68294, -124.93613
• 49.18306, -119.5524

Additional physical characteristics

• Date and geographic information reflect when and where the specimens were collected.

Physical Repository

• Royal British Columbia Museum

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• color photographs
• photographs

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/pkbj-2381

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