Libyan birds. the remains of the italian ornithological collection in the Assaray Al-Hamra Museums of Tripoli, Libya

Marco Masseti

doi:10.4081/rio.2011.70

Libyan birds. the remains of the italian ornithological collection in the Assaray Al-Hamra Museums of Tripoli, Libya

https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2011.70

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Vol. 81 No. 2 (2011)

Submitted: 29 September 2014
Accepted: 29 September 2014

Published: 15 December 2012

Libyan birds, Assaray Al-hamra Museums, Libyian Museum of Natural History of Tripoli, ornithological collections.

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Marco Masseti
marco.masseti@unifi.it
Department of Biology of the University of Florence. Laboratories of Anthropology and Ethnology., Italy.

This paper deals with the surviving ornithological stuffed specimens from the former Libyan Museum of Natural History, set up in Tripoli in 1936, in the extant Assaray Al-hamra Museums. The aim of this note is to provide a checklist of the stuffed birds still on display in the cases, while taking the opportunity to furnish a range of additional information that augments our knowledge of the current Libyan ornithofauna and also documenting its past diffusion in the north-African state. All the data recorded were gathered prior to the civil unrest that broke out in Libya in February 2011.

Masseti, M. (2012). Libyan birds. the remains of the italian ornithological collection in the Assaray Al-Hamra Museums of Tripoli, Libya. Rivista Italiana Di Ornitologia, 81(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2011.70