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List of Birds obtained in British East Africa
F.J. Jackson
Notes by R, Bowdler Sharpe
2 color plates (Pholidauges sharpie / Parus nigricinereus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 4, pages 587-640
1899
Opening lines: "The following is a list of the birds obtained by me in various parts of British East Africa and the Equatorial Provinces from 1892 to 1898. My friend Dr. Sharpe has kindly added a few critical notes on some of the species, and I hope on a future occasion to describe more fully the nests and eggs in my collection."
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Description of a new Emu-Wren
A.J. Campbell
Color plates (Stipiturus ruficeps): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 3, pages 399-400
1899
Opening lines: "The occurrence of a second species of Stipiturus, or Emu-Wren, in Australia will doubtless be of great interest to ornithologists. It is many years since Shaw described the original species. On the 14th April, 1898, near the North-west Cape, Mr. Tom Carter shot a pair of the new Emu-Wrens, and on December 8th following procured a second pair in the same vicinity. Mr. Carter kindly forwarded a skin (of a female) to me, which I provisionally described ay Stipiturus ruficeps before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. At my request Mr. Carter has now forwarded a male, which fully confirms the new species - one of the smallest of Australian birds."
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On a Collection of Birds from the Tanganyika Plateau, in British Central Africa
Captain G.E. Shelley
2 color plates (Malaconotus manningi / Melanobucco macclounii): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 3, pages 364-380
1899
Opening lines: "As I am kindly informed by Lt.-Col. W. H. Manning, H.B.M. Deputy Commissioner for British Central Africa, the present collection of birds was made during the months of July, August, and September last year by the hunters belonging to the Scientific Staff at Zomba, who were temporarily attached to the Commission for the Delimitation of the Anglo-German Boundary between Lakes Nyasa atid Tanganyika. The Cornmission landed in July at Karonga, about 10 s. lat., and during its stay there some specimens were collected at Mpata, ten miles to the westward. The expedition then travelled due north to Fort Hill, on the Songwe River, which forms a portion of the Anglo-German boundary, and followed the Stevenson Road through the Mamwe district to Fife, in about 9 25's. lat., 32 40' E. long. Many of the specimens were collected at Ikawa, ten miles S.E. of Fife, and at Luchinde, halfway between Fife and Lake Nyasa."
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On Birds from West China
F.W. Styan
Color plate (Proparus fucatus and Schoeniparus variegatus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 2, pages 289-300
1899
Opening lines: "In June 1896 my two native collectors left Hankow by steamer for Ichang, in Hupeh, about 1000 miles from the mouth of the Yangtse. Thence they proceeded, on the south of the river, about 100 miles to Patung, close to the border of Sechuen, in which neighbourhood they remained, among wooded hills of moderate height, until the end of September. The season was very wet and the results were indifferent. The specimens collected were mostly of common species in poor plumage, the following being the most interesting."
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On the Birds of New Hanover
Ernst Hartert
Color plate (Alcyone websteri): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 2, pages 277-281
1899
Opening lines: "The Ornis of New Hanover, an island situated to the westward of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Ireland, 37 miles in length by about 20 miles in breadth, and averaging in height from about 1000 to 2000 feet above the sea, is practically unknown. It was therefore of considerable interest to the naturalists of the Tring Museum to receive collections from there which had been brought together by Captain Cayley Webster. It fell to my lot to examine the bird-skins, and I have given a list of the species in the appendix to Captain Webster's book 'Through New Guinea' (London, Fisher Unwin, 1898), pages 369 to 375."
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On the Results of a Collecting-Tour of Three Months in Somaliland
R. McD. Hawkes
Color plate (Apalis viridiceps and Mirafra marginata): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 1, pages 52-4
1899
Opening lines: "Mr. G. H. Cheetham and I, having engaged the services of Mr. Harwood (who had been before in Somaliland with Mr. E. Lort Phillips, and had there done excellent work as collector, arrived at Aden on October 17th, 1897, and called on Colonel Sadler, the Political Resident and Consul for the Somali coast. Col. Sadler told us that we could not be allowed to go into Abyssinia, as we had planned, as at that time the treaty with Menelik had not been ratified, and that for the same reason we could not go into Somaliland unless we undertook not to pass outside the British Protectorate."
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On the Occurrence of Radde's Bush-Warbler (Lusciniola schwarzi) in England
Howard Saunders
Color plate (Lusciniola schwarzi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 41, Issue 1, pages 1-4
1899
Opening lines: "For the discovery in England of this Warbler from Eastern Siberia ornithologists are indebted to the persistent researches of Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh. On the 1st of October last, according to his custom at the time of migration, Mr. Haigh was diligently working the hedgerows which border the long sea-banks on the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, and, when near North Cotes (where he obtained the first British specimen of the Greenish Willow-Warbler, he was attracted by a strange and particularly powerful note. Thereupon the hedgerow was thoroughly beaten out, and the owner of the loud voice proved to be the Warbler in question - a bird about the size of a Wood- Wren."
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On a Collection of Birds from Morocco
J.I.S. Whitaker
Notes: R. Bowdler Sharlpe
Color plate (Otocorys atlas): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 4, pages 592-610
1898
Opening lines: "Towards the close of the: year 1896 I engaged the services of Mr. Edward Dodson, with a view to sending him on a collecting-tour in Tripolitana and Cyrenaica. This trip, however, having been found to be impracticable, owing to the difficulty of travelling in the interior of the Pashalic, I determined to send Mr. Dodson instead to Marocco, and he accordingly left England for that country in the early part of 1897."
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On a Collection of Birds from Fort Chiquaqua, Mashonaland
J. Lawrence Sowerby
Notes: R. Bowdler Sharlpe
Color plate (Smilorhis sowerbyi and Cisticola hindii): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 4, pages 567-575
1898
Opening lines: "All the birds in the present collection were obtained in one district, namely at Port Chiquaqua, which is about 18 miles E.S.E. of Salisbury. I was stationed there from the early part of July to the beginning of November. The country is very broken, and is mostly covered with 'mahobohobo'-bush, though in the kopjea other kinds of bush predominate. The country is well watered, and there are many deserted native gardens."
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On the Psophia obacura of Natterer and Pelzeln
P.L. Sclater
Color plate (Psophia obacura): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 4, pages 520-524
1898
Opening lines: "In the account of the Trumpeters (Psophiidae) in the British Museum Catalogue (vol. xxiii. p. 23l), Psophia obscura of Natterer and Pelzeln has been united to P. viridis Spix. Knowing full well the almost unfailing accuracy of Natterer and his scrupulousness in naming new species without good reason, I waa always of opinion that some mistake had been made here; but, no specimens of either of these species being in the British Museum or in any other collection in England, I have until quite recently been unable to set it right. I have now the opportunity of doing so, through the kind assistance of my excellent correspondent Dr. Goeldi, Director of the Museum of Para."
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Narrative of a Visit to Somaliland in 1897, with Field-notes on the Birds obtained during the Expedition
E. Lort Phillips
3 color plate (Rhyhchostruthus louisae / Tricholaema blandi and Pseudalaemon freemantlii / Fancolinus lorti): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 3, pages 382-425
1898
Opening lines: "Early in January 1897 I returned to Somaliland accompanied by my wife, my niece (Miss Gillett), her brother (Mr. F. Gillett), Mr. G. P. V. Aylmer, Mr. Ivers Bland, and Mr. Guy Fremantle. I had engaged to assist me with my specimens a young taxidermist, Leonard Harwood, who, with Aylmer's man, George, completed our rather formidable party of Europeans. Our object was to explore the Goolis range to the eastward of Berbera as far as Mount Wagga, to add, if possible, to the scientific knowledge of this part of Africa, and to avail ourselves, as well, of any sport obtainable along and beyond the reservation-line that has been drawn in so arbitrary a manner by the 'powers that be' at Aden."
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On a Hybrid Thrush found in Norway (Turdus iliacus × Turdus pilaris)
R. Collett
Color plate (Turdus iliacus × Turdus pilaris): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 3, pages 317-319
1898
Opening lines: "In December last I obtained a newly-caught specimen of a Thrush, which in size and plumage appears to be intermediate between Turdus iliacus and Turdus pilaris, and which I believe to be a hybrid between these two species. The specimen was snared in Faaberg, Norway, the southernmost district of Gudbranddalen, on the 11tb December 1897, together with some examples of T. pilaris. Its stomach contained only berries of the mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia). In Faaherg a great portion of the sides of the valleys extends into the subalpine region, and both T. iliacus and T. pilaris commonly breed there. In most of the colonies of the far more numerous T. pilaris onc or more pairs of T. iliacus will be found."
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An Ornithological Expedition to the Cape Verde Islands
Boyd Alexander
Color plate (Spizocorys fazae): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 1, pages 74-118
1898
Opening lines: "Although Dr. Dohrn and Mr. Keulemans have recorded the results of their observations from the Cape Verde Islands in the 'Journal fur Ornithologie' for 1871, it has long been felt, among those interested in the African Avifauna, that a further and more systematic working of the Islands would reveal many interesting facts. With this object in view, I left Liverpool on February 28th, 1897, for Sao Vicente, accompanied by a friend, Mr. John Duncan, and two skinners (Ramm of Cley, and Griffin of Tunbridge Wells)."
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On some Birds and Eggs lately collected at Cape York, Queensland, by Mr. H. G. Barnard
D. Le Souef
Color plate (Ptilotis gracilis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 40, Issue 1, pages 51-59
1898
Opening lines: "Talegallus purpureicollis sp. nov. Cape York. (Barnard's Talegallus.) This species is found in the Capc York Peninsiula. Mr. K. Broadbent observed it during his extended visit there some years ago. Mr. Jardine, of Somerset, Cape York, and Mr. H. G. Barnard have lately noticed the variation between it and thc southern form, and the latter has kindly sent me some skins."
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On the Birds collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., during his Expedition to the Nyika Plateau in North Nyasaland
Captain G.E. Shelley
Introduction: P.L. SClater
2 color plates (Serinus whytii / Bessonornis modesta and Cisticola nigriloris): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 4, pages 518-554
1897
Opening lines: "The collections of birds from the Protectorate of Nyasaland previously described in this journal have all been formed in the country south of Lake Nyasa, mostly in the district called the 'Shire Highlands,' of which a chart has been given in 'The Ibis' for 1894, p. 462. Sir Harry Johnston, shortly before he left Zomba in 1896, arranged that Mr. Whyte should make an expedition into the high district called the Nyika Plateau, situated some 300 miles further north, on the west coast of the north portion of Lake Nyasa, to ascertain how far the fauna and flora of this part of the Protectorate corresponded with those of the southern portion."
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On the Birds of Zululand, founded on the Collections made by Messrs R. B. and J. D. S. Woodward
R. Bowdler Sharpe
Narrative of their travels: R. B. and J. D. S. Woodward
Color plate (Stactolaema woodwardi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 3, pages 400-422
1897
Opening lines: "The brothers Woodward, of Hlati Kula, Ubombo, for the last three years have devoted their energies to the exploration of Zululand, and the list of species of the birds of which they have obtained specimens has been prepared from the collections that they have sent to England from time to time. As will be seen from the account of tbeir journeys, the travellers have traversed a large tract of country, and have enlarged our views as to the ranges of several species, while the discovery of a new Barbet, allied to an East-African species, is of great interest, and the occurrence in Zululand of Turacus livingstonii and Nicator gularis, species hitherto believed to be confined to the Zambesi district, are also facts of importance."
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Description of a new Bird of Paradise from British New Guinea
Mr. C.W. De Vis
Color plate (Macgregoria pulchra): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 2, pages 250-252
1897
Opening lines: "The bird, of which I forward a specimen, appears to belong to a new genus of Paradiseidae, which I propose to name (by request), after Lady Macgregor."
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On the Birds of the Philippine Islands, Part IX: The Islands of Samar and Leite
W. R. Ogilvie Grant and John Whitehead
2 color plates (Pithecophaga jefferyi / Zosterornis pygmaeus and Rhabdornis inornatus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 2, pages 209-250
1897
Opening lines: "About the middle of May, 1806, Mr. John Whitehead once more left Manila for the island of Samar, to make another collection in place of the one which had been lost off Singapore. There is no really high ground in Samar, and nowhere do the hills attain a greater altitude than about 1500 feet above sea-level. The greater part of the island is covered with a dense and lofty forest, many of the trees being over 240 feet high. Under these circumstances collecting was often a matter of difficulty, for birds, especially large ones, some 80 yards overhead are hardly to be brought down with a charge of shot from any ordinary gun. The climate is hot and damp, and, as might be expected, the rainfall unusually heavy, while the mud, for which the island is almost proverbial, renders locomotion most disagreeable. With very few exceptions, the present collection from Samar contains all the more important birds previously met with, hut a little Owl (Scops sp.), the lovely Blue Flycatcher (Cyanomyias helence), arid the Flower-pecker (Prionochilus olivnceus) were not again seen."
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On a Further Collection of Birds, made by Messrs La Touche and Rickett, from N.W. Fohkien
Henry H. Slater
Color plate (Suthora davidiana and Cryptolopha ricketti): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 2, pages 169-176
1897
Opening lines: "I am again indebted to my two indefatigable friends in the far East for the privilege of examining an interesting collection of birds, selected from a much larger number, obtained at Kuatun (cf. 'Ibis,' 1896, pp. 489-490) in May and June 1896. I am pleased to find among them some confirmation of an expectation formed a good many years since - namely, that many of the Himalayan birds, hitherto known only from the Indian side, would on further investigation be found, either in identical form or as closely-allied representative species, in China. It will be noticed that many of the birds here mentioned are of genera well known in the Indian hill-country."
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On the Genus Psittacella
Ernst Hartert
Color plate (Psittacella picta): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 58-60
1897
Opening lines: "Tn 1891, when writing the 20th volume of the Catalogue of Birds, Count Salvadori recognized three different species of the genus Psittacella, Schleg., hitherto known only from New Guinea. At present the genus is enlarged by one more species, described quite recently by Mr. Rothschild, and we can, in my opinion, distinguish as a slightly differentiated subspecies Psittacella brehmi pallida of A. B. Meyer. A revised 'key' to the species of this genus is therefore necessary, which I give as follows."
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An Additional List Of Birds Ohtained At Kalaw, Southern Shan States, During April And May, 1896
Major G. Rippon
Color plate (Sitta magna): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 1-5
1897
Opening lines: "During my second visit to Kalaw this year I did a good deal of collecting, but succeeded in obtaining examples of only 34 species of birds in addition to those previously recorded ('Ibis,' 1896, p. 357), making a total of 109 in all. I have included in the present list only those birds which I or my man actually shot and identified. A few obtained last year I did not see again: for instance, Pica rustica and Lioptila melanoleuca; while, on the other hand, I obtained nearly all those entered in the previous list as 'observed by Mr. Oates.' As in my former paper, I have not recorded any species procured below 4000 feet above the sea-level."
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Notes on some Birds from the higher mountains of Nyika, west of Lake Nyasa, British Central Africa, with a description of a new Species of Francolin (Francolinus crawshayi)
W. R. Ogilvie Grant and Richard Crawshay
Color plate (Francolinus crawshayi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 4, pages 482-489
1896
Opening lines: "Through the kindness of Mr. Richard Crawshay, who has recently returned to England from British Central Africa, the National Collection has recently received several rare and interesting birds from the highlands of Nyika, which lie to the west of Lake Nyasa. Among the specimens brought home is a Francolin which is certainly undescribed, and I therefore propose to name it, in honour of its discoverer, Francolinus crawshayi."
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On the Birds of the Philippine Islands, Part VII: The Highlands of Mindoro
W. R. Ogilvie Grant and John Whitehead
Color plate (Caprophaga mindorensis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 4, pages 457-477
1896
Opening lines: "A considerable time has now elapsed since the readers of ‘The Ibis ' have heard anything of Mr. Whitehead's doings in the Philippine Islands. I need hardly say that this indefatigable collector has not been idle during the last year, but through a lamentable accident the entire results of four months' work in the island of Samar have apparently been lost, owing to the destruction of the S.S. Weiland by fire off Singapore."
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Notes on some Species of the Families Cypselidae, Caprimulgidae, and Podargidae, with Remarks on Subspecific Forms and their Nomenclature
Ernst Hartert
2 color plates (Aegotheles insignis / Aegotheles affinis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 3, pages 362-376
1896
Opening lines: "Having recently gone over the same ground as five years ago, I find that in a new list of Goatsuckers and Swifts I shall have to make quite a number of alterations and additions, and I wish to explain and to discuss some of the points in the following pages. I sincerely hope that nobody will blame me for inconsistency in cases where I do not agree with my own former conclusions. To my mind it is much more truthful and honourable to our beloved science to correct one's own mistakes, admitting that one has altered his opinions for (at least what one believes to be) the better, or that one has gained new knowledge in the course of time, than to adhere with obstinate consistency to what one has written before."
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Remarks on Richardson's Merlin (Falco richardsoni, Ridgway)
W.E. Brooks
Color plate (Falco richardsoni): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 2, pages 226-228
1896
Opening lines: "In the first volume of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds (p. 409), published in 1874, Dr. Sharpe stated that he was unacquainted with this species, and appended a short extract from the Proc. Phil. Acad. 1870, p. 147, in which Mr. Ridgway described, as a male, an earthy-brown coloured bird. This description must refer to the immature male, for the adult male is of a beautiful blue-grey above, and somewhat resembles the European Merlin, but is generally lighter toned, and, I think, more handsome."
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On a Collection of Birds from Mount Chiradzulu, in the Shiré Highlands, Nyasaland
Capt. G.E. Shelley
Color plate (Oriolus chlorocephalus): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 2, pages 177-184
1896
Opening lines: "Amongst the collections lately received from Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B., H.B.M. Commissioner, is a small series of birds from this mountain, obtained by Mr. Alexander Whyte, who visited it in July last. It contains about 40 specimens, which, as kindly determined by Capt. Shelley, are referable to 27 species. Of these three are new to science; and one of them is a very distinct and beautiful Oriole with a bright green head ; another is a closely allied representative of a species lately described from the neighbouring mountain Milanji; while the third is a southern form of the rare genus Cryptospiza, hitherto known only from the mountains of Camaroons and Shoa."
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On the Birds of the Philippine Islands, Part VI: The Vicinity of Cape Ertgafio, N.E. Luzon, Manila Bay, and Fuga Island, Babuyan Group
W. R. Ogilvie Grant and John Whitehead
Color plate (Orthotomus chloronotus and Zosterornis dennistouni): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 101-128
1896
Opening lines: "On the 6th April, 1895, our indefatigable friend, Mr. Whitehead, started off once more for the north of Luzon, his destination this time being Cape Engafio, the extreme northeast point of the Island. From thence he hoped to reach the ranges of mountains that run parallel with the east coast, but the impossibility of obtaining either Negrito porters or boats proved a serious obstacle. Having arrived safely at Aparri, where he was obliged to remain for some days, as it was semana santa (holy week), he managed to charter a large coasting-boat to take him on to Cape Engafio. The start was made on a Monday night, but a contrary wind drove the boat in a northerly direction far out of its course, and for a couple of days she was obliged to seek shelter under Fuga Island, one of the Babuyan group. Here Mr. Whitehead landed, and, though the time at his disposal was very limited, several interesting birds were collected, the most important being examples of a new species of Bulbul (Hypsipetes fugensis), which finds its nearest ally in the Loo Choo Islands."
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On Birds observed in the Goolis Mountains in Northern Somali-land
E. Lort Phillips
Color plate (Merula ludoviciae): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 62-87
1896
Opening lines: "On January 4th, 1895, we left London in the P. and 0. S.S. Rome, bound for Aden, thence to Somali-land, where we hoped to spend a very pleasant three months, away from the cold and damp of an English winter. Of our party of five persons: my wife, Miss Edith Cole, and my brother-inlaw, Mr. Frank Gunnis, were about to make their first trial of camp-life in Africa, while Mr. G. P. V. Aylmer and I were fairly old hands, having made several shooting-trips together."
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Further Notes on the Birds of Aden
Lieut-Col. J.W. Yerbury
Color plate (Myrmecocichla melanura and Myrmecocichla yerburyi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 13-41
1896
Opening lines: "So much has already been written by the late Mr. Barnes and by myself about the physical aspect of the country in the neighbourhood of Aden that it is necessary to say but little more on that subject. Haithalhim, which was formerly one of my favourite hunting-grounds in this district, has been, I regret to say, almost entirely spoiled by floods. The irrigation works have been destroyed and half the garden has been carried away; the trunks of big tamarind-trees, 1.5 feet or more in circumference, are to be seen lying in the riverbed, while the remaining trees are either dead or dying. I was unlucky in the time that I selected for visiting Lahej, as, owiug to the drought, the country was quite burnt up, the jowari and other crops having in great measure failed in consequence."
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On the Birds of the Philippine Islands, Part V: The Highlands of the Province of Lepanto, North Luzon
W. R. Ogilvie Grant and John Whitehead
3 color plates (Pyrrhula leucogenis / Pseudoiharrhaleus caudatus / Brachypteryx poliogyna and Rhinomyias insignis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 37, Issue 4, pages 433-472
1895
Opening lines: "The second collection formed by Mr. Whitehead in the Benguet district, teeming as it was with novelties and rare birds, is, as a whole, far surpassed in interest by the great collection now sent home from the Province of Lepanto. This lies immediately to the north of the scene of his former labours, and includes what is believed to be the highest part of Luzon, Mount Data attaining an elevation of over 8000 feet. Unfortunately Mr. Whitehead has furnished us with only a somewhat vague account of his various movements, but I believe I am correct in stating that the whole of the present collection, or very nearly all of it, was made in the Lepanto district."
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On the Bower-bird recently described by Mr. C. W.
De Vis as Cnemophilus mariae
P.L.Sclater
Color plates (Loria mariae): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 37, Issue 3, pages 343-344
1895
Opening lines: "As already recorded in this Journal Mr. C. W. De Vis, the Curator of the Queensland Museum, in a report, dated June 30th, 1894, and addressed to the Administrator of British New Guinea, described a collection of birds made by Captain Armit and Mr. Guise during Sir William Macgregor's recent exploration of Mount Maneao. Amongst the new birds characterized on this occasion was what Mr. De Vis considered at the time to be a second species of his lately instituted genus Cnemophilus, which was dedicated to Lady Macgregor as Cnemophilus maria. Of this species a male had been obtained on Mount Maneao in the month of April at an elevation of 6650 feet, and a young male and five females at 5000 feet."
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On a new Species of Xenicus from an Island off the Coast of New Zealand
Sir Walter L. Buller
Color plates (Xenicus insularis): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 37, Issue 2, pages 236-237
1895
Opening lines: "Projecting into Cook's Strait as a bold and salient point from the eastern shore of Blind Bay, and rising to a height of 2180 feet, is D'Urville Island, presenting a very broken and partially wooded surface. With a width of from five to six miles, it stretches away 17 miles to the northward, whilst to the south it is separated from the mainland by a very narrow channel known as the French Pass."
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On Some New And Little-Known Species Of Birds From Formosa
Henry Seebohm
Color plates (Parus holsti): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 37, Issue 2, pages 211-213
1895
Opening lines: "Mr. Holst has been a year or more in the island of Formosa, and so long as he remained near the coast his collections contained nothing of special interest. He has not yet succeeded in ascending Mount Morrison, but a small collection from the outlying spurs of the range may be regarded as the first-fruits of a rich harvest which awaits any ornithologist who may make a collection in the above island at a few thousand feet above sea-level."
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On the Birds of the Philippine Islands, Part III: The Mountains of the Province of Isabella, in the extreme North-east of Luzon
W. R. Ogilvie Grant and John Whitehead
2 color plates (Zosterornis striatus and Dendriphila mesoleuca / Aethopyga flavipectus and Eudrepanis jefferyi): J.G. Keulemans
Ibis: Volume 37, Issue 1, pages 106-117
1895
Opening lines: "Mr. Whitehead's third collection, formed in the Province of Isabella, arrived in London on the 8th of October, and though the number of birds collected was comparatively small somewhat less than forty - several remarkably interesting forms were included, two being new to science. Perhaps the most interesting novelty is a second species of my new Timaliine genus Zosterornis (Ibis, 1894, p. 510). This species which I have named Z. striatus on account of its striped underparts, though displaying all the generic differences which mark Z. whiteheadi (Ibis, 1894, plate xv. fig. l), at the first glance reminds one strongly of the members of the allied genus Mirornis (especially M. montana, Sharpe, from Kina Balu) in its general coloration and style of markings, but this resemblance is only superficial. The other new bird is an Oriole named Oriolus isabellae, of which unfortunately only the female was obtained; but, as may be seen from the full description given below, it can readily be distinguished from the only allied form 0. albiloris, the type of which was obtained during Mr. Whitehead 's second expedition, and described in the volume of 'The Ibis' for 1894 (p. 504)."
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