Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici

Author(s): Fuisz, T. I., Haraszthy, L. & Vas, Z.
Title: Catalogue of Iván Király’s oological collection in the Hungarian Natural History Museum
Year: 2012
Volume: 104
Pages: 369-386.

Abstract: The collection of IVÁN KIRÁLY is a significant oological collection containing 423 bird clutches and several nests. The collection was assembled from 1948 in the course of 16 years. Due to strict nature conservation laws implemented all over Europe, such a collection could not be established nowadays. Now the collection is deposited in the Bird Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The main merit of the collection is the large sets of Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio), Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) clutches. The Bird Collection of the HNHM has not possessed such large series of clutches from these species before. Ninety percents of the clutches still have their original collecting labels handwritten by the collector. The collection was purchased in very good condition with its own custom-made original egg cabinet and collecting data from EDIT ANDRÉEWITCH, the daughter of IVÁN KIRÁLY in 2012. With one table and 5 figures.
Keywords: Hungarian Natural History Museum, birds, Iván Király, bird eggs, oological collection, Hanság
Subject: zoology

Journal: Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici
Journal abbreviation: Annls hist.-nat. Mus. nat. hung.
ISSN: 0521-4726
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I. & Merkl, O.