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J.G. Keulemans:
Ibis 1880-1884

This page lists papers, published in Ibis, the British Ornithological Union journal, between 1880 and 1884, 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

 

Notes on Birds from British Guiana, Part III

Osbert Salvin and F. DuCane Godman

2 colour plate (Calliste whitely / Lathria streptophora): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 443-452

1884

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"In the last number of 'The Ibis' a letter from Mr. Henry Whitely was printed, dated 'Roraima, Oct. 15, 1883,' in which the writer gave a short account of his doings up to that date in the remote part of British Guiana he was then investigating. Towards the end of June last Mr. Whitely returned home, bringing with him his collection, which, as on previous occasions, he kindly submitted to us for examination. It contains specimens of upwards of 240 species, and includes all the birds discovered by Schomburgk in the higher districts investigated by him during his well-known expedition, the types of which have hitherto remained almost unique in the Berlin Museum. Now, owing to Mr. Whitely's enterprise, we have before us a good series of Diglossa major, Setophaga castaneicapilla, Buarremon personatus, Campylopterus hyperythrus, &c., besides a number of other birds not included in Schomburgk's lists. Of these latter we now describe eighteen species, all of which appear to us to be new, some of them being rcmarkable for their beauty and distinctness."
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On a Collection of Bird-skins from the Orinoco, Venezuela

Hans von Berlepsch

Colour plate (Cnipolegus orenocensis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 431-441

1884

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"The vast plains of the Orinoco, in Venezuela, still remain a 'terra incognita' to ornithologists - at least no account of the birds of this country has yet been published. It was therefore with considerable interest that I heard of a collection of bird-skins made in the neighbourhood of Angostura (or Ciudad Bolivar) by a young man sent out by the well-known dealer in natural objects, Mr. F. F. G. Umlauff, of Hamburg. The whole collection has been submitted to my inspection and, although small, proves to be of considerable interest."
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On Tetrao grisciventris, a recently described Species of Hazel-Grouse from North-east Russia

Henry Seebohm

Colour plate (Tetrao grisciventris): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 430-431

1884

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"The Grouse form a compact little genus, confined to the Palsarctic and Nearctic Regions, and containing about a score of well-defined species, some of which are again divisible into climatic races or subspecies. Modern ornithologists, suffering from the epidemic which has been callcd the 'furor genericus' and the 'cacoethes dividendi,' have established no less than twelve genera for the reception of these twenty or twenty-four species, to the no small inconvenience of ornithologists whose powers of memory are not unlimited."
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Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippine Islands. On two Collections of Birds from the vicinity of Manilla

R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay

Colour plate (Ceyx cyanopectus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 330-335

1884

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"In the course of the last four months I have received through the kindness of my friend Mr. Frederick Maitland-Heriot, of Manilla, two collections of bird-skins which were made in the neighbourhood of that town. The skins in the first collection were in a very ragged condition, and in many cases barely recognizable; but those in the second collection were prepared by a skilful taxidermist, by name Pio Oliva."
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On a Collection of Birds made in Southern Palawan by Mr. E. Lempriere

R. Bowdler Sharpe

Colour plate (Thriponax hargitti): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 316-322

1884

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"The contributions to our knowledge of the avifauna of the island of Palawan are two in number, viz. my own paper on the birds collected by Professor J. B. Steere in the Philippine archipelago, published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society (second series, Zoology, vol. i. pp. 307-355); and Lord Tweeddale's account of the collections made by Mr. Everett (P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 611-624). The chief interest attaching to Mr. Lempriere's collection arises from the fact that it has been made in a portion of the island yet unvisited, and that, as will be seen, it not only contains examples of many of the species discovered by Professor Steere and Mr. Everett, but also brings to our knowledge one or two undescribed kinds of birds."
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Remarks on two rare American Oscines

P.L. Sclater

Colour plate (Idiopsar brachyurus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 240-241

1884

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"As mentioned in my last article on the Icteridae (Ibis, 1884, p. 167), the authorities of the U.S. National Museum have kindly sent to me for inspection the type of Idiopsar brachyurus of Cassin. From the same obliging correspondents Mr. Salvin has obtained the loan of the only two known spccimens of Acanthidops bairdi of Ridgway. I venture to offer a few remarks upon these two rare and little-known species."
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Further Contributions to the Ornithology of Japan

Henry Seebohm

Colour plate (Bubo blakistoni): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 174-183

1884

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"Two more collections of Japanese birds, for which I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. F. Ringer of Nagasaki and Mr. H. Henson of Hakodadi, enable me to add a few species to the list of birds from these islands, and to correct some errors in the identification of those already recorded."
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A Review of the Species of the Family Icteridae. Part IV. Quiscalinae

P.L. Sclater

Colour plate (Quiscalus tenuirostris): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 149-167

1884

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"To the last subfamily of the Icteridae, the Quiscalinae, which we now come to, I refer, for the present, the following eight genera:- I. Lampropsar, II. Scolecophagus, III. Dives, IV. Quiscalus, V. Macragelaeus, VI. Hypopyrrhus, VII. Aphobus, VIII. Cassidix."
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On A New Species Of Wryneck, Discovered In Eastern Equatorial Africa By Dr. Emin Bey

Dr. G. Hartlaub

Colour plate (Iynx pulchricollis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 1, pages 28-30

1884

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"I have the pleasure of introducing to my brother ornithologists a new species of the restricted genus Iynx, lately discovered by my excellent correspondent Dr. Emin Bey, which I propose to call Iynx pulchricollis."
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A Review of the Species of the Family Icteridae. Part III. Agelaeinae

P.L. Sclater

Colour plate (Agelaeus cyanopus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 26, Issue 1, pages 1-27

1884

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"In reviewing the species of the third subfamily of the Icteridae I shall, for convenience sake, as in the case of the former subfamilies, adhere very closely to the sequence of genera adopted in the 'Nomenclator' aud 'Catalogue of American Birds,' although I am well aware that it would not be difficult to show that in certain points this arrangement is by no means free from objections."
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A List Of The Birds Collected By The Late Mr. W.A. Forbes In The Niger Region

Captain G.E. Shelley

Colour plate (Aegialitis forbesi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 538-562

1883

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"Our late fellow-worker Mr. W. A. Forbes, during his expedition to the unhealthy region of the Niger, where he succumbed to the deadly effects of the climate, made a valuable collection of birds, comprising examples of over one hundred species. Many of them are extremely rare, and several of them hitherto only known from North-east Africa, as, for instance, Muscicapa aquatica, Heugl., Hyphantornis atrogularis, Heugl., Lagonosticta melanogastra, Heugl., and L. nigricollis, Hengl. This would indicate apparently that there is no obstacle to the transit of birds between the upper waters of the White Nile and those of the Niger."
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Descriptions of six new Species of Birds from Southern and Central America

Hans von Berlepsch

Colour plate (Thripophaga sclateri): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 487-494

1883

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"Mr. Salvin was kind enough to send me for examination all the specimens of P. salvini and P. rubicoides contained in the mus. Sa1v.-Godm.; so I have been able to study the differences between these two species in a satisfactory manner. The result arrived at is that P. salvini has only a superficial resemblance to P. rubicoides, being perhaps more closely related to P. fuscicauda, Cab., from Costa Rica, agreeing with it in the form of the crest, which is short and concealed, and in the blackish colour surrounding the bill laterally and on the chin."
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Notes on Woodpeckers. No. IV. On the Woodpeckers of the Ethiopian Region

Edward Hargitt

Colour plate (Dendropicus Gabonensis / Dendropicus lugubris): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 401-487

1883

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"It may, perhaps, occur to ornithologists that, after Malherbe's extensive monograph, there would be little to write on the subject of the Woodpeckers of Africa; but the criticisms in Professor Sundevall's 'Conspectus' alone would show that the work of the above-named author was not altogether satisfactory; while the vast increase in our knowledge of African ornithology since Malherbe's time seems to me to warrant the necessity of a fresh revision of the family, as far as the Ethiopian Region is concerned."
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A Review of the Species of the Family Icteridae. Part II. Icterinae

P.L. Sclater

Colour plate (Icterus grace-annae): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 352-374

1883

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"Shorne of the Cassiques, the Icterinae, according to my views, contain only one large genus, Icterus, which, however, it is possible, for convenience sake, to divide into three sections - Hyphantes, Pendulinus, and Icterus. But I quite agree with the distinguished authors of the 'History of North-American Birds', that it is 'exceedingly difficult to arrange these birds in any sharply defined sections,' and that it is better 'to consider them all under the single genus Icterus'."
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On a second Collection of Birds made in the Island of Sumatra by Mr. H. O. Forbes

Francis Nicholson

Colour plate (Suya albigularis and Brachypteryx saturatus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 235-257

1883

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"MR. H. 0. Forbes has been collecting in Central Sumatra, and has sent to Mr. Janson a very interesting collection of birds, an enumeration of which will be found below. I have received a letter from Mr. Forbes respecting my previous communications to 'The Ibis' on the specimens obtained by him in Java and Sumatra."
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Notes on Birds from British Guiana. Part II

Osbert Salvin and F. DuCane Godman

Colour plate (Brotogerys panychlorus and Microcerculus ustulatus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 203-212

1883

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"As was stated in our last notice of Mr. Henry Whitely's collections from British Guiana, that enterprising explorer proceeded to the Roraima Mountains, and remained there during the antumn of the year 1881 and the early part of 1882. He then returned to Georgetown, and brought home with him the results of his expedition - a collection containing examples of upwards of 280 species of birds. During his stay at the foot of the Roraima Mountains and in their vicinity Mr. Whitely ascended to an elevation of about 5000 feet, a height still short of that attained by Schomburgk, who reached 7000 feet above the sea. Some of the birds of this higher zone have thus escaped Mr. Whitely's observation, and a few species, such as Diglossa major, Setophaga castaneocapilla, Buarrermon personatus, and Campylopterus hyperythrus are still unrepresented in any museum but that of Berlin, where Schomhurgk's collection remains."
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Description Of A Recently Discovered Species Of Paradisea

Osbert Salvin and F. DuCane Godman

Colour plate (Polyplectron helenae): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 199-202

1883

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"In the last number of 'The Ibis' (p. 131) we published a brief diagnosis of a Bird of Paradise recently obtained in one of the D’Entrecasteaux Islands by Mr. Andrew Goldie. We now propose to give a fuller account of the bird, which, with the accompanying figure, drawn by Mr. Keulemans, will, we trust, do some justice to this beautiful and novel species."
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A Review of the Species of the Family Icteridae. Part I. Cassicinae

P.L. Sclater

2 colour plate (Ostinops salmon / Ostinops oleagineus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 145-163

1883

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"The Cassiques have been mostly associated by modern naturalists with the Icteriiiae or Hangnests, but may, 1 think, fairly stand apart as a separate subfamily of Icteridae, recognizable by their naked nostrils and conspicuous frontal shield. The Cassiques were arranged in the 'Nomenclator' in five genera, and placed at the head of the family Icteridae. I will take them in thc same order on the present occasion, but have a slight addition to make to the number of species, and have also been obliged, somewhat unwillingly, to make one new generic title."
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On a new Species of Polyplectron

Eugene W. Oates

Colour plate (Polyplectron helenae): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 136-137

1883

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"I propose to characterize an apparently new species of Polyplectron from Upper Burma under the name of Polyplectron helenae."
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On the Position of the Acrocephaline Genus Tatare, with Descriptions of two new Species of the Genus Acrocephalus

H.B. Tristram

2 colour plate (Acrocephalus mendanae / Acrocephalus pistor): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 25, Issue 1, pages 38-46

1883

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"In many cabinets a drawer near the bottom, generally deeper than most of the others, serves as a receptacle for various odds and ends which have not found a place elsewhere, or which, perhaps, from their shape aud size, do not exactly fit in symmetrically with the contents of the upper drawers. To this Bluebeard's closet are relegated all sorts of miscellaneous curiosities. The owner is not very fond of examining and sifting it. To do so gives a great deal of trouble, and, besides, if its contents are to be reduced, may involve the labour of rearranging some very pretty and undoubtedly homogeneous series. Such a deep drawer in the practice of many ornithologists is the family Timeliidae. The Timeliine group is, in fact, the waste-paper basket of the puzzled systematist in the Passerine birds."
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Notes on the Birds of the Province of Constantine, Algeria

Charles Dixon

Colour plate (Saxicola seebohmi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 4, pages 550-579

1882

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"The following notes refer to the birds either identified or collected during a short trip to Biskra and the Aures mountains made in company with Mr. Elwes. Considering that our stay was such a brief one, and that travelling took up at least half of the month we mere away from England, our success was far beyond our highest expectations. Amongst our captures were a dozen specimens of the rare little Algerian Coal Titmouse, Parus ledoucii; specimens of Saxicola lugens with the sex carefully ascertained, settling the much-vexed question as to the difference of plumage in the sexes of this bird; several examples of Emberiza saharae; Phylloscopus bonelli; a female in breeding-plumage of the rare Sylvia deserticola; and, last but not least, we secured two specimens of a hitherto undescribed Chat."
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Notes on the Birds of Archangel

Henry Seebohm

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

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 3, pages 371-386

1882

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"The following notes on the birds of Archangel and the surrounding district were furnished to me by Mr. Henke, who resided in that city for several years, and thus has had a better opportunity of making a complete list than any ornithologists who have previously written on the subject."
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Notes on a ‘Catalogue of the Accepters in the British Museum’ by R. Bowdler Sharpe

J.H. Gurney

Colour plate (Falco atriceps): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 290-321

1882

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

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"I now propose to consider the genus Falco in the restricted sense of that term; but before doing so, I am desirous of inserting two corrections, for one of which I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Ridgway, who writes to me as follows :- I I think you are mistaken in believing that the first dress of the young males [of Tinnuncullus sparverius], as stated by Mr. Sharpe, resembles the old female'. So far as the true T. sparverius of North America is concerned, this is, most certainly, not the case."
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On the Birds of Gilgit

Major J. Biddulph

2 colour plate (Accentor fulvescens / Propasser blythi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 266-290

1882

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"Since the publication of my former paper on the Birds of Gilgit I have been again rcsident, from May 1880 till March 1881, in that place, during which time I procured several species not previously obtained, either by Dr. Scully or myself. The summer of 1880 was marked by an unusual amount of bad weather - the monsoon, which, as a rule, is never felt so far from the plains of India, having made its influence apparent. The end of July and the beginning of August, which, in ordinary years, is the hottest season in Gilgit, was marked by ten days continuous rain and stormy weather. In consequence of this the autumn migration commenced a fortnight earlier than usual, and on the first two days in August a number of water-birds and waders, such as Ibidorhynchus struthersi, Machetes pugnax, Tringa temmincki, Totanus glareola, Totanus calidris, &c., appeared : amongst them a special prize, in Tringa acuminata, was secured. I also saw several Kites (Miltius melanotis or M. govinda)."
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On a Collection of Birds made by Mr. J. S. Jameson in South-eastern Africa, with Notes by Mr. T. Ayres

Captain G.E. Shelley

Colour plate (Hyliotis australis and Sharpea ayresi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 236-265

1882

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"Mr. Jameson has asked me to describe this fine collection, and has also lent me a most interesting book of notes made by Mr. T. Ayres, so well known to readers of 'The lbis' as an accurate observer of birds, who accompanied the expedition. From them I have made many extracts. As regards the classification, I shall follow that adopted by Mr. R. B. Sharpe in his new edition of Layard's Birds of South Africa."
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On Ninox rudolfi, a new Species of Hawk-Owl from the Malay Archipelago

A.B. Meyer

Colour plate (Ninox rudolfi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 232-234

1882

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"Ninox rudolfi ... Above greyish brown, spotted or streaked with white, darker from the hind neck to the head, which is blackish; each feather of the head bears two white spots or streaks; most of the feathers of the hind neck and mantle with a white coherent spot on their apical third, and another one or two, not coherent, subterminal ones; on the middle of some of the feathers, besides, a third lengthened white spot."
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Notes on a Collection of Birds from the Solomon Islands, with Descriptions of new Species

H.B. Tristram

3 colour plate (Caprimulgus nobilis / Alcyone richardsi / Ptilopus rhodostictus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 133-146

1882

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"I have lately received a very interesting collection of birds made by Lieut. Richards, R.N., when surveying last year in the Solomon Archipelago. The collection contains examples of 35 species, most of them collected in the hitherto unexplored islands of Rcndova, or Hammond Island, and Ugi. On first examination of the skins I pronounced twelve of them to belong to new species. But I soon afterwards received from Mr. E. P. Ramsay a separate copy of his paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society of New South Wales for February last, in which that gentleman has described five of these species, collected, I believe, by the Rev. G. Brown; and in a paper read at a Meeting of the Linnean Society (of London) on the 3rd of November last, Mr. Ramsay has described from the same source two more of these species. Of the twelve species, therefore, which have now reached England for the first time, there remain five to be described."
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Notes on the Raptorial Birds collected in New Britain by Lieut. G. E. Richards, R.N.

J.H. Gurney

Colour plate (Strix aurantiaca): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 126-133

1882

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"Canon Tristram having submitted to my examination the series of raptorial birds collected by Liet. G.E. Richards in New Britain, I have great pleasure in offering the subjoined notes on them.."
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Notes on Birds from British Guiana

Osbert Salvin and P.D. Godman

Colour plate (Pipra suavissima): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 76-84

1882

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"Mr. Henry Whitely, who for some time past has been sending us collections of birds from the neighbourhood of Bartica Grove, in British Guiana, has lately made an excursion further into the interior of the country, and, ascending the Mazaruni river, has penetrated as far as the Merume Mountains, which lie on the south bank of that river, under the 60th degree of west longitude. Here and at a place called Camacusa, lower down on the Mazaruni river, he made a large collection of birds, which reached us in excellent condition a few weeks ago."
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On some new and little-known Species of Trochilida

Osbert Salvin and P.D. Godman

Colour plate (Eucephala pyropyga): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 4, pages 595-597

1881

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"The following notes relate to certain species of Trochilidae which have recently come into our possession. We publish them in order to render them available for the completion of the 'Supplement to the Trochilidae,' commenced shortly before his death by the late John Gould, and now, we understand, to be brought to a conclusion."
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A Contribution to the Ornithology of Gilgit

John Scully

Colour plate (Syrnium biddulphi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 415-453

1881

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"The following notes on the birds of Gilgit are founded on a collection of 1543 specimens obtained in that country during a residence of nineteen months. Of this period nine months were passed in Major Biddulph's company; and for the rest of the time I was alone."
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On A New Crossoptilon

Henry J. Elwes

Colour plate (Crossoptilon harmani): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 399-401

1881

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"CROSSOPTILON HARMANI, Sp. nov. Bill horn-colour tinged with red, 1 1/2 inch long from gape, and 3/4 inch deep at nostril. Lores and a space surrounding the eye, 2 inches long by 1 inch deep, naked, red. Top of head covered with short velvety blue-black feathers. A band on occiput, chin, and middle of throat, for a space of about 5 inches from the beak, white. Ear-coverts produced, nearly 2 inches long, white. Rest of neck, back, wing-coverts, breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts dark slaty bluish. Upper tail-coverts long, rather greyer than back. Centre of belIy white. Primaries and secondaries dark slaty bluish, with purplish reflections. Wing 12 inches long."
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Note on Onychotes grueberi, Ridgway

John Henry Gurney

Colour plate (Onychotes grueberi): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 396-398

1881

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"In 'The Ibis' for 1876, at p. 476, I referred, in some detail, to the very curious Buteonine bird for which Mr. Ridgway, a few years since, proposed the generic and specific names of Onychotes grueberi, the type specimen having been 'sent to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Griiber, who labelled it as having been obtained in California' (vide Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 'North American Birds,' vol. iii. p. 254)."
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On the Genus Hylophilus

P.L. Sclater

2 colour plate (Hylophilus muscicapinus and Hylophilus fuscicapillus / Hylophilus brunneiceps and Hylophilus ferrugineifrons): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 293-312

1881

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"The genus Hylophilus was founded by Temminck in 1823, in the 29th livraison of his 'Planches Coloriees,' for two species discovered in Brazil by Natterer, H. thoracicus and H. paecilotis. In 1831 Prince Maximilian of Neuwied (Beitr. iii. p. 720 et Segq.) transferred Temminck's term Hylophilus to certain Tanagers of the genus Nemosia, and placed the Hylophili of Temminck in the genus Sylvia. Unfortunately, also, Prince Maximilian's Sylvia poecilotis is not Hylophilus poecilotis of Temminck, but H. amaurocephalus, as was pointed out by Nordmann (in Erman's Reise) in 1835, when he described the latter species. Up to 1835, therefore, only three species of Hylophilus were recognized, H. thoracicus, H. poecilotis, and H. amaurocephalus."
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Descriptions of some new Species of South-American Birds of the families Tyrannidse and Formicariidse

P.L. Sclater and Osbert Salvin

Colour plate (Terenura spodioptila and Terenura humeralis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 2, pages 258-267

1881

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"Amongst the recent additions to our collections are examples of certain species of the families Tyrannidae and Formicariidae, which seem to be undescribed."
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Notes on some Hawks of the Subgenera Cooperastur and Urospizias

John Henry Gurney

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

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 2, pages 258-267

1881

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"Accipiter, or, to speak more exactly, Cooperastur poliogaster (Temm.), has been for many years only known by the type specimen at Leyden. It has now ceased to be unique, as a second specimen, said to be from the Amazons valley, has been acquired by Messrs. Salvin and Godman, who have very kindly permitted me to examine it. It is an adult bird; and the following are its measurements compared with those of the type specimen in the Leyden Museum, the latter being taken from Mr. Sharpe’s Catalogue, vol. i. p. 121."
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Notes on Woodpeckers. No. I. On the Piculets of the Old World

Edward Hargitt

Colour plate (Analcipus cruentus and Analcipus consancuineus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 2, pages 222-239

1881

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"The present paper is the first of a series of small articles which I trust to he able to contribute to the pages of 'The Ibis' on the family of Picidae, in which I have been for years interested, and of which I have managed to get together a considerable collection. Not long ago, in examining some of the birds at the British Museum, I discovered among the specimens of Vivia an example from China which was evidently referable to a new and hitherto undescribed species; and in giving a description of this interesting bird, I have added some notes on the other Piculets of the Old World, with a view to determine the present state of our knowledge of this little group."
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Description of a new Finch of the Genus Propasser from Yarkund

Major J. Biddulph

Colour plate (Analcipus cruentus and Analcipus consancuineus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 156-157

1881

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"A small number of Rose Finches, identified at the time as Propasser rhodochlamys, were procured by me during the winter of 1873-74 in Yarkund. The large series of P. rhodochlamys since obtained, and a careful examination of the figures and published descriptions, leave no doubt in my mind that the Yarkund bird is distinct and hitherto undescribed. from Yarkund. I therefore propose to name it Propasser rhodometopus."
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Descriptions of two new Species of Wrens from Ecuador

Osbert Salvin

Colour plate (Analcipus cruentus and Analcipus consancuineus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 129-130

1881

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"The two Wrens described in this paper were both procured in Ecuador through the intervention of Mr. Clarence Buckley. The first (Cistothorus brunneiceps) was obtained by Mr. Buckley himself, in the neighbourhood of Sical, a village lying about twenty miles to the sonth-east of Cuenca, at an elevation of 7000 feet; the other (Microcerculus taeniatus) was contained in a collection of birds' skins made by his correspondent, Mr. Illingwortb, in the Balzar Mountains - a range lying to the northof Guayaqui1,and forming a spur of thc Andes running in a south-westerly direction from the main chain."
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Descriptions of two new Species of Birds

Captain R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay

Colour plate (Analcipus cruentus and Analcipus consancuineus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 32-34

1881

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"Two apparently distinct species of the genus Analcipus, Swainson, have hitherto been treated as identical, viz. the Black-and-crimson Orioles of Sumatra and Java."
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Remarks on two Species of Halcyon

E.L. Layard

Colour plate (Halcyon tristrami): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 4, pages 459-460

1880

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"Halcyon juliae, Reich., from Ansevata, in New Caledonia. There must be some error here! It must be a young example of H. sancta. Our bird never has the inside of the wing white; in H. juliae and H. chloris it is always so in the adults, and more or less so in the young. We have splendid specimens of H. juliae exactly according with Mr. Sharpe's plate and descriptions, from Aneiteum, Tanna, Vate, and St. Bartholomew, New Hebrides - also H. chloris from Vate or Sandwich Island, which we believe is a new habitat; at least we have no record of the species being found so far south. Both these species are considerably larger than H. sancta; and unless the Ansevata bird comes fully up to the measurements given by Mr. Sharpe in his monograph, we should hardly be inclined to accept its being an example of H. juliae."
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Description of a new Genus and Species of Owl from the Seychelles Islands

Canon H.B. Tristram

Colour plate (Gymnoscops insularis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 4, pages 456-459

1880

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"It is with somewhat of the feelings of a poacher unprotected by the new Ground-Game Act, that I venture to intrude on a domain so sacred as that of the Mascarene Islands, which Professor Newton and his brother have established as peculiarly their own, and which they seemed to have so thoroughly exhausted. But the temptation is as irresistible as a stray Falcon to a keeper in the close season longing for an excuse to discharge his piece ; and I can only, in mitigation of judgment, express my hope that it will not be long before I receive a second specimen of my prize, wherewith to enrich the Professor's unique collection."
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On An Apparently New Species Of Pigeon Of The Genus Otidiphaps From Southern New Guinea

Osbert Salvin and F. DuCane Godman

Colour plate (Otidiphaps regalis): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 364-366

1880

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"A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of receiving from Mr. Andrew Goldie a box containing a collection of birds made by this now well-known naturalist in the neighbourhood of Port Moresby, on the southern coast of New Guinea. Mr. Goldie's collecting-ground extended inland to a distance of thirty miles from the coast towards the Owen Stanley range of mountains, which here forms the backbone, as it were, of New Guinea, and runs in a south-easterly direction to the extremity of the island. We have not yet been able to have the whole collection critically examined, but we do not hesitate to describe this magnificent Pigeon, which, so far as we are aware, has not previously been seen in Europe.."
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A List of Birds collected by the late Henry Durnford during his last Expedition to Tucuman and Salta

Osbert Salvin

2 colour plate (Coryphospingus pusillus and Poospiza melanoleuca / Cnipolegus cinereus): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 351-364

1880

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"In 'The Ibis' for 1878, p. 493, we recorded the death of Henry Durnford, which lamentable occurrence took place on the 11th July of that year at Campo Santo, near the remote town of Salta, in the Argentine Republic, whither he had gone on a collecting-tour from Buenos Ayres. After some delay the last collections formed by Durnford were forwarded to his brother, our Member, Mr, W. Arthur Durnford, who sent them to me for examination. My promise to him to name the specimens I now proceed to fulfil."
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Descriptions of four new Species of East-African Birds

Captain G.E. Shelley

2 colour plate (Barbatula olivacea / Amydrus walleri): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 333-336

1880

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"CISTICOLA RHODOPTERA, sp. n. Upper half of the head dark brown, with the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts of a slightly more ashy shade; back brown, with a slight rufous shade on the middle, a more ashy shade towards the scapulars, and an olive shade on the rump and upper tail-coverts; wings dark brown, with all the coverts, and with broad margins to the quills, bright chestnut; the secondaries with narrow pale ends; tail-feathers (much worn) brown, with white ends, and with a broad subterminal blackish-brown bar; chin, throat, and centre of the chest white, shading into pale ochreous brown on the sides of the crop, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts; under surface of the wings dark brown, with the inner margins of the quills and the centre portion of the coverts pale ochreous brown, the remainder of the under wing-coverts white; bill pale brown, shading into dark brown towards the base of the upper and the edges of both mandibles; tarsi and feet flesh-colour. Total length 4.8 inches, culmen 0.6, wing 2.15, tail 2.4, tarsus 0.95."
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On the Birds of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia (continued)

Osbert Salvin and F. DuCane Godman

2 colour plate (Campylopterus phainopeplus and Oxypogon cyanolaemus / Rhamphomicron dorsale): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 169-178

1880

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"PIPRA AURICAPILLA, Licht. Minea (2000 ft.), 15th and 18th January, 1879. chalky white." 21st January, 1879. 'Iris brown.' 'Found in the depth of the forest. A very noisy bird frequenting the tops of the highest trees'."
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On the Birds of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia

Osbert Salvin and F. DuCane Godman

Colour plate (Poecilothraupis melanogenys): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 114-125

1880

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"Since our last paper on this subject was published (Ibis, 1879, p. 196 et seqq.), Mr. Simons has sent us three more collections of birdskins from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta and its vicinity. As will be seen in the following notes, a considerable proportion of the birds now sent were obtained at a place called Minea, a coffee-hacienda situated on the slopes of the mountains, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the sea, a few leagues from the town of Santa Marta. But besides working in this locality, Mr. Simons also made a journey to the higher parts of the Nevada itself, and succeeded in reaching an elevation of 17,000 feet. Here the more interesting part of his collection was formed."
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