Allan McEvey's 1966 Journal: NT Bustard Expedition

This is Allan McEvey's record of the bird specimens observed and collected during the Northern Territory Fisheries & Wildlife Department Bustard Expedition in 1966. McEvey later published a book entitled Birds of the Fisheries and Wildlife Dept. N.T. Bustard Expedition. This expedition is mentioned in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988’s Action Statement for the Australian Bustard.
Allan Reginald McEvey became the Curator of Birds at the National Museum of Victoria in 1955. For the next 30 years he made an invaluable contribution to the museum's ornithological collection, particularly to the avian osteological (bone) collection, which he developed into one of the best in the world. He was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) from 1968 to 1969 and was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1980. The total number of tasks for this dataset is: 36, number transcribed is 36 and number validated is 35.