Books About Birds A guide to books about birds and birdwatching Home | Index | Search | Links | Contact


On this page

J.G. Keulemans:
Ibis 1885-1889

This page lists papers, published in Ibis, the British Ornithological Union journal, between 1885 and 1889, that include illustrations by J.G. Keulemans.

Keulemans plates appeared in Ibis between 1869 and 1909.


J.G. Keulemans pages

There are a number Keulemans pages on the site:

Original publications with Keulemans illustrations

Later publications with Keulemans illustrations

Keulemans plates in scientific journals:

- Novitates Zoologicae

- Ibis 1905-1909
- Ibis 1900-1904
- Ibis 1895-1899
- Ibis 1890-1894
- Ibis 1885-1889
- Ibis 1880-1884
- Ibis 1875-1879
- Ibis 1870-1874

 

Further Notes on the Birds of the Canary Islands

E.G. Meade-Waldo

2 colour plates (Pratincola dacotiae / Parus palmensis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 503-520

1889

Opening lines:

"In the middle of February of this year I paid another visit to the Island of Fuerteventura, meeting by chance in Las Palmas a kindred spirit, Dr. Percy Rendall, of Gambia, who accompanied me. A fortnight later Canon Tristram, whom I had not expected to see, arrived. My principal objects in this visit here to observe the habits of the Chat which I had procured the previous year, to have another good look at the Cream-coloured Courser and Houbara Bustard on their breeding-grounds, and to get living specimens of as many species as I could."
book cover

book cover

On the Genus Turnix

W. R. Ogilvie-Grant

Colour plates (Turnix ocellata): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 446-475

1889

Opening lines:

"The twenty-two known species of the genus Turnix are primarily divisible into a few groups which can be easily distinguished from one. another ; but to clearly define each of the several species included in these groups is by no means so easy a matter. This will soon become apparent to anyone making a study of the genus, for most of the species pass through intricate changes of plumage, and every character seems to be subject to variation. Whether we look to general colour, markings, size, or other characters, it is almost impossible to form an opinion as to the value of a species without having first studied the group or had a considerable series of specimens to judge from. Nevertheless it will be found that, after allowing a certain margin for variation, these individual differences in plumage are not so irregular as would at first appear, all of them being stages through which each bird passes before reaching maturity."
book cover

book cover

On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo

R. Bowdler Sharpe

With notes by John Whitehead

2 colour plates (Orthnocichla whiteheadi / Allocotops calvus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 409-443

1889

A continuation of an paper from an earlier issue.

Opening lines:

"Brachypteryx erythrogyna. A young male in Mr. Whitehead's collection is of a duller blue than the adult male, and not only has the abdomen washed with rufous, but has some rufous feathers on the breast, evidently the remains of the first plumage, which must therefore resemble that of the adult female. [Frequents the true forest from 4000 to 8000 feet, though very scarce at the lower elevation, owing to the Dusan rat-traps, which have almost exterminated all the small mammals and ground-loving birds. This species, like the little Androphilus, was most difficult to shoot from its extreme tameness, as it often came within a few feet of us, and followed us for several yards through the forest, making it extremely hard to obtain specimens without blowing them to bits. Eye dark brown; feet and bill black.]"
book cover

book cover

Notes on some recently described Species of Dendrocolaptidae

P.L. Sclater

Colour plate (Berlepschia rikeri): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 350-354

1889

Opening lines:

"The authorities of the U.S. National Museum have lately most kindly sent me over for examination the typical specimens of some newly described species of Dendrocolaptidae which I was anxious to see. Amongst them is an example of the striking new form, Berlepschia rikeri, of which, by the kind permission of the lenders, I am able now to give a figure (Plate XI). As lately pointed out by Mr. Ridgway, Berlepschia has nothing to do with Picolaptes, as at first supposed, although the tail-feathers are slightly stiffened, but belongs to the subfamily Philydorinae, and may, perhaps, be most conveniently placed, as he has suggested, near Pseudocolaptes."
book cover

book cover

Note on Emberiza cioides, Brandt

H.B. Tristram

Colour plate (Emberiza cioides): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 293-294

1889

Opening lines:

"Attention has lately been drawn to the Eastern Palearctic Bunting, Emberiza cioides, Brandt, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet. i. p. 363 (1843), by the fact that our Member, Mr. R. W. Chase, of Birmingham, has lately obtained at Flamborough a specimen of this species. This specimen is stated to have been taken there in October 1887, and to have been mounted from the flesh by Matthew Bailey, who did not know the bird, and was quite ignorant of the interest attaching to it. The species has considerable seasonal variation, and this specimen agrees exactly with one in my own collection obtained near Lake Baikal in the month of October. So far, therefore, the evidence of its occurrence at Flamborough seems satisfactory. But it is curious that the bird has never been met with before in Europe, not even in that resort of unwonted stragglers, Heligoland, nor even in Western Siberia."
book cover

book cover

On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo

R. Bowdler Sharpe

With notes by John Whitehead

Colour plate (Chloropsis kinabaluensis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 265-283

1889

A continuation of an paper from an earlier issue.

Opening lines:

"Locustella ochotensis. Sir Hugh Low was the first to meet with this species in Borneo, and his collectors procured in Lumbidan a specimen which is now in the collection of the British Museum, as recorded by Mr. Seebohm (l.c.). [This bird was obtained for me by one of my collectors close to my camp at 1000 feet elevation. It was probably on its way north at the time.]."
book cover

book cover

On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo

R. Bowdler Sharpe

With notes by John Whitehead

2 colour plates (Hemichelidon cinericeps and Rhinomyias gularis / Cryptolopha montis and Cryptolopha schwaneri): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 2, pages 185-205

1889

A continuation of an paper from an earlier issue.

Opening lines:

"Oriolus xanthonotus. Iris dark lake; bill dull pinkish red; feet blackish brown. Fairly common, frequenting the higher trees in the jungle. It does not extend up Kina Balu beyond 1000 feet. Native name 'Burong Sarawak'."
book cover

book cover

Descriptions of two new Birds from Northern Peru

Hans von Berlepsch

Colour plate (Brotogerys gustavi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 2, pages 181-185

1889

Opening lines:

"This fine new species I have dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. Gustav Garlepp, of Kothen, Anhalt, who has collected birds during the last three years in different places in Northeastern Peru, and has been fortunate enough to get several of great rarity, such as Cornurus roseifrons, Gray (in great numhers) , Ara couloni, Scl., Pteroglossus beauharnaisi, Zebrilus pumilus (hitherto only known from Guiana), and many others of considerable interest."
book cover

book cover

Notes on Birds collected by Dr. G. Radde in the Transcaspian Region

H.E. Dresser

Colour plate (Lanius raddei): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 85-92

1889

Opening lines:

"Dr. G. Radde of Tiflis, has recently sent to me for examination and identification a selection from a collection of birds obtained chiefly by him during his recent journeys in the Transcaspian Region. He purposes to publish a full account of the birds he observed there in thc 'Ornis;' but it may be of interest to the readers of 'The Ibis' to have a few particulars respecting the small selection sent to me, which contains an example of one new species, a most interesting Shrike, and several other birds of interest."
book cover

book cover

On the Ornithology of Northern Borneo

R. Bowdler Sharpe

3 colour plates (Accipiter rupotibalis / Heteroscops luciae / Cissa jefferyi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 63-85

1889

Opening lines:

"In the present paper I have commenced a list of all the species of birds procured by my friend Mr. John Whitehead during his four years' travels in Northern Borneo. The chief interest naturally centres round his exploration of the great mountain of Kina Balu, of the avifauna of which a complete account is here, for the first time, attempted. The comparison of the natural history of this mountain with that of Sumatra, Java, and Tenasserim I shall leave till the end of the memoir. The following are Mr. Whitehead's notes on his journeys, and all his observations on the habits of the different species are placed between brackets."
book cover

book cover

On A Breeding-Colony Of Larus eburneus On Spitsbergen

Professor Robert Collett

Colour plate (Larus eburneus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 440-443

1888

Opening lines:

"In August 1887 Capt. Johannesen, master of one of the Norwegian Arctic traders, passed Cape Smith, the easternmost point of north-eastern Spitsbergen, and one which has only been reached in summers exceptionally free from ice. On the small island of Storoen, lying about 16 English miles to the east of Cape Smith, in 80' 9' N. lat., he discovered a colony of Larus eburneus, and as it mas easily accessible, and he had not previously succeeded in examining one, although he had seen several in Tsfjorden and in other parts of Spitsbergen, he made a short stay at the island in order, if possible, to obtain eggs and young, which he knew would of interest."
book cover

book cover

Further Descriptions of new Species of Birds dicovered by Mr. John Whtehead on the Mount of Kina Balu, Nothern Borneo

R. Bowdler Sharpe

4 colour plates (Oreoctistes leucops and Androphilus accentor / Brachyteryx erythrogyna / Chlorocharis emillae and Megalaema pulcherrima / Harpactes whiteheadi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 383-396

1888

Opening lines:

"Mr. John Whitehead left Labuan on the 15th of December last, and ascended the great mountain of Kina Balu for the second time. The discoveries of this expedition are no less remarkable than those of the first; but as, by the time that these lines are in print, Mr. Whitehead may be expected in England, I do not propose to do more than give a very few notes on some of the actual novelties and extreme rarities of which he has sent me specimens. Of the rest of the acts of Mr. Whitehead, of the collections he has made, and of the nests and eggs he has found during his four years’ travel in the Malay Archipelago, I hope he will himself give an account. Attention should be especially drawn to the Ceylonese affinities of some of the new genera described in this paper."
book cover

book cover

Description d'une nouvelle Espèce du Genre Emberiza

L. Taczanowski

Colour plate (Emberiza jankowskii): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 317-319

1888

book cover

book cover

List of Birds collected in Eastern Africa by Mr. Frederick J. Jackson, F.Z.S.

Capt. G.E. Shelley

Notes and introduction: Frederick J. Jackson

2 colour plates (Philetaerus cabanisi / Ploceus jacksoni): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 287-307

1888

Opening lines:

"On Nov. 17, 1884, I left London in the British Indian s.s. Henyada to join my friend Mr. J. G. Haggard, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul in Lamu, for some big-game shooting and to collect natural-history specimens. On Dec. 25 I arrived at Lamu, a port on the east coast of Africa, some 300 miles north of Zanzibar. For the first two and a half months I did not do much, either shooting or collecting, but after two or three short trips to the mainland, in which I shot a few Waterbucks and Hartebeests, I made preparations for a trip up the river Lana, intending to proceed into the Galla country, making my dhow my head-quarters."
book cover

book cover

Further Notes on Calyptomena whiteheadi

R. Bowdler Sharpe

Colour plate (Calyptomena whiteheadi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 231

1888

Opening lines:

"The brief description which I gave last year (P. Z. S. 1887, p. 558) of this beautiful species was founded on a pair of birds sent by Mr. John Whitehead in advance of the bulk of his collection from Kina Balu. When the whole of the latter arrived last autumn, I described merely the new species (Ibis, 1887, p. 435), leaving Mr. Whitehead to give a complete account of his collection on his return to Europe, which, it is hoped, will take place next August. As many of my readers are aware, he is at present engaged on a second exploration of the mountain of Kina Balu, which I trust may be as successful as the first."
book cover

book cover

On a Collection of Birds from the Island of Palawan

R. Bowdler Sharpe

2 colour plates (Syrnium whiteheadi / Prionochilus johannae and Siphia Ehithacus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 193-204

1888

Opening lines:

"My friend Mr. John Whitehead has sent a fine collection of birds as the result of his expedition to Palawan. He was unsuccessful in getting far into the interior of the island, and was therefore obliged to collect in the neighbourhood of Puerto Princesa, which had been the scene of the labours of Professor Steere and of Mr. Everett. It is sufficient to state that Mr. Whitehead has obtained examples of every species but one met with in Palawan by the before-mentioned naturalists, and Mr. Lempriere also; while he has added to the list 60 species previously unrecorded from Palawan, thus nearly doubling the known avifauna of the island."
book cover

book cover

Ornithological Notes of a Tour in Cyprus in 1887

Dr. F.H.H. Guillemard

Colour plate (Parus cypriotes): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 94-124

1888

Opening lines:

"Those who are acquainted only with the more western islands of the Mediterranean - Corsica, with its snow-capped peak of Monte Rotondo peeping from above the pine-groves; Sicily, with Taormina, the champion view of Europe; Corfu, the richness of whose verdure is hardly to be surpassed even by Madeira - will be more than disappointed with the first view of Cyprus."
book cover

book cover

On the Birds of Bhamo, Upper Burmah

Mr. E.W. Oates

Colour plate (Acridotheres albosinctus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 70-73

1888

Opening lines:

"In 1881 the taxidermist of the Phayre Museum of Rangoon was despatched to Bhamo to form a collection of birds. I had an opportunity of examining all the skins immediately on their arrival in Rangoon; but as the results were not very noteworthy, I have hitherto deferred making any systematic list of them."
book cover

book cover

Notes on a Collection of Birds made by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mountain of Kina Balu, in Northern Borneo, with Descriptions of new Species

R. Bowdler Sharpe

2 colour plates (Chlamydocaera jefferyi / Arachnothera juliae): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 435-454

1887

Opening lines:

"Beyond the few species described by me in the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society for 1879 (p. 246), nothing has been ascertained of the ornithology of the remarkable mountain of Kina Balu. In the present paper I give some descriptions of new species of the greatest interest to science, and it is remarkable to find that some of the genera hitherto believed to belong to the Himalayan subregions have received a startling accession of range. Certainly the discoveries by Dr. Beccari of such Himalayan genera as Psarisomus, Pericrocotus, Stachyris, Turdinus, Rimator, Pnoepyga, Buchanga, and Cochoa in the higher regions of Sumatra might have prepared ornithologists for the occurrence of some of these genera in the high ranges of Borneo, which, however, had hitherto been considered very Malayan in its avifauna, the only real Himalayan element having been shown, quite within recent years, by the discovery of Dendrocitta on the Lawas River, Rubigula on Kina Balu, and more lately by that of a Parus and Myiophoneus in the higher districts of Sarawak. Mr. Whitehead’s first expedition has resulted in the enlargement of our knowledge of this strictly Himalayan element, and although he has not yet met with Pnoepyga, Cochoa, or Rimator, it is quite possible that they will all be found, along with such forms as Tarsiger hodgsoni, Hemichelidon cinereiceps, Pterythius aeralatus, Oriolus vulneratus, Staphidia, &c. Apart from these evidences of connection with the Himalayan system of Tenasserim, the Malayan peninsula, and Sumatra, the new forms discovered by Mr. Whitehead are striking enough, viz.: a marvellous new Calyptomena, a new genus of Campophagidae, and a striking new Arachnothera."
book cover

book cover

book cover

On an apparently new Species of Zosterops from the Island of Anjuan, Comoro Group

H.B. Tristram

Colour plate (Zosterops praetermissa and Zosterops hovarum): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 369-371

1887

Opening lines:

"I was surprised, on looking through my series of Zosterops, to find a specimen which had been obtained by Mr. C.E. Bewsher in 1879, and had been labelled 2. anjuanensis before I purchased it, but which I had placed, without noticing its label, among my series of grey-backed White-eyes, as the representative of this section from the Comoros. In every point, except in coloration, it comes very close to 2. anjuanensis, but the measurements are slightly larger. I have compared it with eight specimens of its congener, and do not find in any of them the slightest indications of a tendency to vary or to lose the bright olive-green of the upper parts or the rich yellow of the throat. This bird shows no trace of green on the upper surface, which is of a lightish ashen grey; but the throat is very faintly washed with yellow, as is a very narrow portion of the forehead."
book cover

book cover

Remarks on the Species of the Genus Cyclorhis

P.L. Sclater

Colour plate (Cyclorhis atrirostris): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 320-324

1887

Opening lines:

"Having been obliged during the preparation of the first volume of 'Argentine Ornithology' to come to some conclusions as to the correct names of the two Argentine species of Cyclorhis, I have been led to examine carefully the series of specimens of this genus in the National Collection, which, since they were catalogued by Dr. Gadow (Cat. 13. viii. pp. 316 et seqq.) in 1883, have received considerable additions from the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman and my own. As, with the aid of this increased number of specimens, I have come to rather different conclusions as to the best mode of arranging the species of the genus in natural order, I venture to put forward my views on this subject, and at the same time to point out the characters of what I believe to be a new and interesting member of the group."
book cover

book cover

On Some New Or Rare Palearctic Birds

Dr. M. Menzbier

Colour plate (Tharrhaleus pallidus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 299-302

1887

Opening lines:

"I give herewith the descriptions of some new and a few notes on some little-known Palearctic birds, based upon the spccimens preserved in the late Mr. Scvertzow's and my own ornithological collections."
book cover

book cover

Notes on the Birds of the Loo-choo Islands

Henry Seebohm

Colour plate (Picus noguchii): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 173-182

1887

Opening lines:

"The Loo-choo, Liu-kiu, or Ryu-kyu Islands lie between Japan and Formosa, and enjoy a climate of remarkable equability. The summer is not too hot to permit the growth of wheat, and the winter is not too cold for the cultivation of sugar-cane and pine-apples. From an ornithological point of view these islands are said to rival Heligoland as a station where migration may be seen on an extended scale."
book cover

book cover

On a new Species of Trochalopteron from China

F.W. Styan

Colour plate (Trochalopteron cinereiceps): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 166-168

1887

Opening lines:

"In 1885 I purchased in Hankow two living specimens of a Trochalopteron which appears to be undescribed, and for which I propose the name of T. cinereiceps. Its nearest ally is T. cineraceum of Godwin-Austen (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 45, pl. xi.), from Munipur, India, from which it differs in its more olive and less grey upper parts, in having a dusky brownish-grey cap to the head instead of black, and in its rufous ear-coverts and white on the cheeks. The underparts in the two species are practically identical."
book cover

book cover

Observations upon the Habits of Micropus melanoleucus, with Critical Notes on its Plumage and External Characters

R.W. Shufeldt

Colour plate (Micropus melanoleucus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 151-158

1887

Opening lines:

"My first acquaintance with this very interesting Swift was made during the spring of 1878, while I was on my way from the little frontier town of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, to the military station of Fort Laramie, situated some 80 miles to the northward of it. On the Chugwater Creek, about halfway between these two points, we pass some very high and imposing chalk cliffs which constitute the more striking and prominent features of the landscape, as the country about them is low and unbroken, being quite prairie like in its character"
book cover

book cover

Description of a new Species of the Genus Setophaga

Osbert Salvin

Colour plate (Setophaga flavivertex): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 129-130

1887

Opening lines:

"Mr. Whitely recently brought me two specimens of this Setophaga, together with a few other birds, stating that he had received them from a correspondent who had obtained them in the neighbourhood of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta in Colombia. Amongst the other species in the same collection I find Basileuterus conspicillatus and Buarremon melanocephalus, both discovered by Mr. Simons in this district, and as yet only known to be found there"
book cover

book cover

On An Apparently Undescribed Hawk Of The Asturine Subgenus Urospizias, Proposed To Be Called Urospizias jardinei

J.H. Gurney

Colour plate (Urospizias jardinei): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 96-98

1887

Opening lines:

"Amongst the Raptorial specimens which were acquired for the Norwich Museum at the recent sale of the collection of the late Sir William Jardine is a Hawk which bears a ticket with the following inscription: 'Astur poliocephalus'. The bird is certainly not Aslur poiiocephatus of Gray, and much more nearly resembles an adult of the white-breasted phase of Urospizias albigularis; it is, however, quite distinct, as will appear by the measurements given below, in which I have compared it with an adult specimen (a female, as I believe) of Uroapizias albigularis as well as by certain differences of coloration, which I will also specify"
book cover

book cover

A Review of the Species of the Family Ploceidæ of the Ethiopian Region

G.E. Shelley

2 colour plates (Ploceus gurneyi and Ploceus angolensis / Ploceus capitalis and Malimbus rubropersonatus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 1-47

1887

Opening lines:

"The second subfamily of the Ploceidae, Ploceinae, is distinguished by the larger size of the bastard primary, which is never very sharply pointed; the tail always square or rounded, never elongated nor graduated; the claws always of moderate length, strong, and much curved. The species of this group generally build in colonies, and with few exceptions their nests are hung from the ends of boughs or reeds, and are spherical, with an elongated entrance."
book cover

book cover

A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana

Osbert Salvin

Colour plates (Pipreola whitelyi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 499-510

1886

Opening lines:

"Since the last portion of this paper was published (antea, p. 181), Mr. Whitely has again returned to England, after a stay of about twelve months on the Carimang River, during which time he made another extensive collection of bird-skins, and having brought them home with him, he has submitted them to us for examination."
book cover

book cover

Description of a new Ground-finch from Western Peru

P.L. Sclater

Colour plates (Haemophila pulchra): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 258-259

1886

Opening lines:

"My excellent and much valued correspondent, Prof. William Nation, of Lima, has lately sent me a single skin of a Ground-finch from the upper valley of the Rimac, which seems to belong to an undescribed and very distinct species of the genus Haemophila. It is evident from the specimens previously forwarded by Prof. Nation from the same district, as also from the fine novelties in plants recently gathered by Mr. John Ball in the upper valley of the Rimac, that there is still much to be done by collectors on the Transandean slopes of Peru."
book cover

book cover

On some new Paradise-birds

O. Finsch and A.B. Meyer

Colour plates (Paradisornis rudolphi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 237-258

1886

Opening lines:

"Amongst the collectors who at first founded and afterwards materially increased our knowledge of the zoology of South eastern New Guinea, the principal credit is due to our fellow-countryman, Karl Hunstein, of Friedberg, in Hesse. A first-rate shot, collector, and observer, it was he who, after the failure of the gold-diggers’ expedition (in the ranks of which he first visited New Guinea, seven years ago), in company with the well-known collector, Andrew Goldie, made several excursions into the same district of New Guinea and eastwards to Milne Bay and the d'Entrecasteaux Islands."
book cover

book cover

On a Collection of Birds from the vicinity of Muscat

R. Bowdler Sharpe

Colour plates (Bubo Milesi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 162-168

1886

Opening lines:

"For the collection here described the British Museum is indebted to the kindness of Colonel Miles, and the interest which attaches to any series of birds from a new locality is certainly not wanting in the present instance. The only information me possess up to the present concerning the ornithology of this part of Arabia is contained in a short reference in Mr. Hume's diary of his expedition to Sind and the Mekran coast."
book cover

book cover

On a new Species of Barbet of the Genus Trachyphonus

Dr. G. Hartlaub

Colour plates (Trachyphonus shelleyi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 105-112

1886

Opening lines:

"When I read the description of Trachyphonus erythrocephalus in Capt. Shelley's paper on the Birds of Somaliland (Ibis, 1885, p. 394), I came to the conclusion that the Somali bird did not belong to that species. Capt. Shelley having kindly lent me one of the specimens, I have been able to compare it with the type of Tr. erythrocephalus in the Berlin Museum; and finding my suspicions justified, I now propose to describe the Somali bird as Trachyphonus shelleyi."
book cover

book cover

On some interesting Additions to the Avifauna of Bucaramanga, U.S. of Colombia

Hans von Berlepsch

Colour plates (Donacicola hunsteini): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 53-57

1886

Opening lines:

"In the Journal fur Ornithologie for 1884, pp. 273-320, I have spoken of a large collection of bird-skins from Bucaramanga sent to the Lubeck Museum by Mr. Emilio Minlos, a German resident of that city. Lately I have had the pleasure of examining another collection from the same source, which was most obligingly placed in my hands for determination by my friend Dr. H. Lenz, of Lubeck. In general this second collection contained but little additional material worthy of notice; indeed, it furnished but three species which were not represented in the first consignment. However, two of these are of no small interest: one being quite new to science, the other not yet known as a denizen of New Granada."
book cover

book cover

On the Species of the Genus Plotus and their Distribution

H.B. Tristram

Colour plates (Donacicola hunsteini): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 41-43

1886

Opening lines:

"There are few groups in ornithology more distinct than the subfamily Plotinae - so sharply marked that not an aberrant Cormorant on the one side, or Tropic-bird on the other, has ever been suspected of balancing itself on the boundary-fence. Yet even this self-contained group has not escaped the fate of all others, of being subdivided into baseless species."
book cover

book cover

On Two New Species Of Birds From New Ireland

O. Finsch

Colour plates (Donacicola hunsteini): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 1-2

1886

Opening lines:

"DONACICOLA HUNSTEINI, sp. nov. Male. Black, quills lighter, more of a brownish black; vertex and nape ashy grey, the latter lighter; all these greyish feathers with dark brown centres; lores and cheeks black, with faint greyish apical edges, giving these parts a somewhat mottled appearance; upper tail-coverts dark chestnut, as are the external margins of the central tail-feathers; under wing-coverts pale rufous; bill aiid feet black; iris dark."
book cover

book cover

On Mr. E. Lort Phillips's Collection of Birds from Somali-land

Captain G.E. Shelley

3 colour plates (Dryoscopus ruficeps and Telephonus jamesi / Argya aylmeri and Parus thruppi / Saxicola phillipsi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 389-418

1885

Opening lines:

"MR. E. Lort Phillips, F.Z.S., accompanied by his friends Messrs. James, Aylmer, and Thrupp, left Berbera, on the Gulf of Aden, on the 22nd December, 1884, and returned there again towards the middle of the following April. They journeyed nearly due south along the parallel 45' E. long. to about 5' N. lat. On leaving Berbera they crossed for the first eight miles a low flat country and then ascended to the high plateau-land 3000 feet above the sea. This plateau is a parched desert for about six months in the year, and it was during this period that most of the specimens were collected."
book cover

book cover

An Autumn Ramble in Eastern Iceland, with some Notes from the Faroes

Wm Eagle Clarke and James Backhouse

Colour plate (Lagopus rupestris): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 364-380

1885

Opening lines:

"The morning of the 2nd of September, 1884, found us on board the Danish Royal Mail Boat 'Thyra,' steaming down the Forth en route for Iceland, via the Faroe Islands. At about 11 A.M. on the 3rd we sighted the Orkneys, and these passed, a north-westerly course was shaped, carrying us south of the Shetlands, of which group only Fair Island and Foula were seen from afar. The Faroes should have been in sight early on the morning of the 4th, but the islands were shrouded in drizzling mist, a characteristic feature in the climate of the group. Numerous Fulmars sailing round the vessel heralded our approach, and in due course the bold outline of Sudcroe loomed through the veil of mist, whilc to the eastward the cone-capped Dimons appeared, illumined by a stray sun-ray."
book cover

book cover

A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana

Osbert Salvin

Colour plate (Pachyrhamphus griseigularis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 291-306

1885

This is the continuation of a paper from an earlier issue.

Opening lines:

"Oxyrhumphus hypoglaucus, Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1883, Merumk Mountains, Roraima (3500 ft.)."
book cover

book cover

On a Collection of Birds from the Island of Cozumel

Osbert Salvin

Colour plate (Spindalis exsul): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 185-194

1885

Opening lines:

"The collection of birds described below was formed by Mr. E. C. J. Devis, who, after residing for some time in Northern Yucatan, visited Cozumel before returning to England. The centre of Cozumel is situated in about lat. 20' 30' N., long. 86' 50' W. The island lies off the east coast of Yucatan, a little to the southward of Cape Catoche. It is an irregular oval in shape, about twenty-five miles long and ten wide, and is separated from the mainland by a channel about ten miles wide."
book cover

book cover

On two new Birds from Borneo

Rev. H.H. Slater

Colour plate (Parus cinerascens): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 121-124

1885

Opening lines:

"In a small collection of bird-skins from the neighbourhood of Sarawak, Borneo, for which I am indebted to Mr. W. A. Harvey, there are two interesting forms, belonging to genera not yet recorded from Borneo. One is a Myiophoneus (unfortunately an immature individual), on which some remarks will follow; the other is a Parus, which I propose to call Parus cinerascens."
book cover

book cover

The Ornithology of St. Kilda

Charles Dixon

Colour plate (Troglodytes hirtensis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 69-97

1885

Opening lines:

"Perhaps no part of the British Islands is more interesting to the ornithologist than St. Kilda. On this bleak and sublimely grand ocean-rock some of the rarest and the most interesting birds in our fauna find a congenial home; here alone they may be studied at their breeding-places. Now that it is known that St. Kilda possesses a Wren peculiar to its rocky shores the interest attaching to it will be increased, and the fact may serve to draw the attention of British ornithologists to the little bird's secluded home."
book cover

book cover

Ornithological Notes from Corsica

John Whitehead

Colour plate (Sitta whiteheadi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 24-48

1885

Opening lines:

"Arriving in Ajaccio in the middle of November 1882, I remained in the neighbourhood, shooting and collecting birds, until the beginning of January 1883, when I crossed the island to Aleria, and worked my way down the east coast to Bonifacio, and, via Sartene, back to Ajaccio. A great storm on the 12th March, which lasted three days, added many birds to my list, some of which I did not meet with again. On the 22nd of March I started for Bastia; but as the shooting on the lagoon there proved a failure, I left in two days for Ajaccio by the west coast, but during the whole journey hardly noticed a bird. In April I returned to the east coast, where I remained moving from place to place until the 15th of June. The shooting of the new Nuthatch induced a second trip, but only added thirty birds new to my list. As some of the best days of the season of passage were spent in the mountains, no doubt I missed a few birds."
book cover

book cover



Last updated March 2014