Haraszty László: A Janus Pannonius Múzeum madártojás- és fészekgyűjteményének katalógusa (Pécs, 2012)
Vándor Tamás tojásgyűjteménye
Summary Summary The collection of the bird eggs at the end of 19th century served the scientific cognition. However from the middle of the 20lh century particualry from the sixties both in the circles of the science and the natural conservation the collection of the bird eggs have become a negated activity. In Hungary was also finished the acquisition of the egg collections by the egg collectors in the same period. Although the time of the egg collection has been terminated contemporaneously raised that the bird egg collections preserved in the natural history museums implying exceedingly valuable facts and informations therefore the elaborations of them and accessible for the search is cogent work. Declarable that the elaboration of even outsize, frequently containing more thousand fo nests, egg collections has not been taken place neither in national and international relations. Taken as a whole 16.000 broods can be found in the Hungarian egg collections. Excluding three ones the majority of the collections is deposited on public collections however two catalogues from the collections have been publicated utterly till the recent past. Part of the elaborating works of the Hungarian egg collections, started some years ago, it was their turned now the revision and the compilatin of the catalogues of the above mentioned three collections The egg collection of the Janus Pannonius Museum, set up from donation and legacies of Ede Agárdi, Lajos Horváth and Tamás Vándor, composed of broods, origin from almost Hungarian localities, is one the biggest between the Hungarian egg collections. Over and above the egg collections of Agárdi, Horváth and Vándor Agárdi's nest collection is retractable in the Museum. The each brood collections according to the collectors listed in taxonomically order in tables. The elaboration of collection of the Janus Pannonius Museum makes correcting i possible to correct the former spreading relation and population size of the extincted species such as Rock Trush (Monticola 16
