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Pecking order: how John Gould dined out on the birds of Australia

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Subject: Pecking order: how John Gould dined out on the birds of Australia
From: Brian Fleming <>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:31:23 +0000
I think it hardly surprising that early collectors ate their specimens 
after skinning them! They were camping out, often  with limited 
supplies, and fresh meat was very welcome.  Not just birds either.  
Gould writes with great feeling of the excellence of a large Red 
Kangaroo which sustained his whole party when they had run out of food 
in South Australia.

Anthea Fleming


On 31/12/2017 10:19 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
> Early ornithologists like to eat their subjects - see
> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/30/pecking-order-how-john-gould-dined-out-on-the-birds-of-australia
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