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Vor Kurzem erhielt unser Museum eine Anzahl Paradiesvögel vom Goenong Tobi, Nordwest-Neuguinea, worunter sich ausser einem alten Männchen von Amblyornis inornata Schleg. und einem andern von Pteridophora Alberti Meyer auch eine in der Färbung ganz abweichende Craspedophora magnifica (V.) und vier Exemplare von Parotia Carolae Meyer befanden. Das Exemplar von Craspedophora magnifica erinnert in seinem eigentümlichen Färbuugszustande an Albinismus, mit dem Unterschiede jedoch, dass in diesem Falle das Gefieder nicht weiss, sondern grau erscheint. Die Struktur der Federn in den verschiedenen Partieen ist durchaus dieselbe wie beim normalen Vogel, die Farbe aber so verändert, dass man zu glauben versucht ist, dass der Vogel längere Zeit im Spiritus gelegen...

Zoological researches in Liberia. Fourth list of Birds

Ano: 1895

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508560

Mr. F. X. Stampfli, whom I left in Liberia at the end of May 1887, repatriated last summer and brought home an important number of Birds skins, most of which are collected at three stations: Owen’s Grove, Mount Olive and Gallilee Mountain on the Farmington River. Only relatively few have been obtained at our old station at Schieffelinsville (March 1888) and at Paynesville on the Messurado River (April 1888). The Farmington River is a very important confluent of the Junk River, having its general direction about parallel with the Du Queah River and joining its water with that of the main river half a mile above the mouth of the latter, and seven or eight miles lower than the Du Queah. Going up the Farmington River by canoe, both banks are flat and covered...

Zoological researches in Liberia. A list of Birds, collected by the Author and Mr. F. X. Stampfli during their last sojourn in Liberia

Ano: 1889

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509230

As I told in my previous paper on Liberian Ornithology ¹), Mr. Stampfli and I left for Liberia at the end of October 1886, and arrived at Monrovia, after short stays at Hamburg, Madeira, Teneriffa, Gran Canaria and the Senegal, on the 26th of November. The next day I proceeded in an open sailing boat to Grand Cape Mount to get the servants, which were already hired for me by Mr. Watson, the Liberian Superintendent at Robertsport. From this latter place I visited some of my former stations on the Fisherman Lake, the Japaca Creek and on the Mahfa River.²) Everywhere I was very kindly received by the natives, who had not yet forgotten me and were much enjoyed to see me again. About medio December I returned with three Yey-boys and my old Liberian huntsman...

On a collection of Birds from the Tenimber Islands

Ano: 1888

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509295

In 1883 a collection of birds from the Tenimber or Timor-Laut group of Islands was presented to our Museum by Mr. Riedel, Resident at Amboina. This collection contains 35 skins, representing 31 species, one of which ( Erythromyias Riedeli) is new to science, while two other (Ardea picata and Fregata minor) are for the first time brought from that interesting locality. Unfortunately the collection was much damaged by humidity, some of the labels were wasted entirely, while in most of the others the sexe, date and particularities about the locality were not mentioned. It is however quite certain that all the presented skins really come from Timor-Laut, and have been collected by the hunters of Mr. Riedel in 1882. Our Museum is very much indebted to Mr....

On Merula javanica and its nearest allies

Ano: 1886

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508734

When occasionally looking over the Malayan specimens of the genus Merula in the Leyden Museum, my attention was drawn by a probably new bird from Celebes, which shows a very strong relationship to M. javanica (Horsf.) and M. schlegeli (Sclat.). Mr. Seebohm, in his Catalogue of the Turdidae in the British Museum, united M. schlegeli with M. javanica, though the distinguishing characters, pointed to by Dr. Sclater, are striking enough to have it recognized as an undoubtedly valid species. As Dr. Sharpe described another species from Borneo, we will have to deal, at present, with the following four species of this group: Turdus javanicus Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 148 (1822); Sclat. Ibis 1861, p. 280; id. 1875, p. 344, pl. 8; Seebohm, Cat.

A supplementary note on Glareola megapoda

Ano: 1893

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509150

Just after the preceding Note had left the press, I got a letter from Dr. H. Guillemard, at Cambridge, about the type of Glareola megapoda in the British Museum. During his visit to the Leyden Museum some weeks ago, I called his attention to my Liberian Pratincoles, the specific rank of which was still doubtful in a certain degree. Dr. Guillemard now was kind enough to examine the type in the British Museum and to send me the following informations: »The occipital hand is of the same size and rusty red colour as in your birds. You gave me the following as the measurements of your Glareola: Wing 13,7—14,4 cm.; tarsus 1,8; bill 1,0. Those of the British Museum bird are: Wing 14,9 cm.; tarsus 2,0; bill 1,0.”

On the identity of Stoparola concreta with Siphia cyanea

Ano: 1885

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509197

When revising the genus Siphia and allied genera in the Leyden Museum, I fell upon the fact that our typical males and female of Stoparola concreta (Müller) from the Highlands of Padang (Sumatra) are in striking contrast with the other species of the genus Stoparola, which on the whole is characterized by the sea-green general color, the triangular, flat shape of the bill, the short tarsi and the uniformity in color between male and female. Their strong resemblance with Siphia Everetti, which I brought home from Borneo, led me to the comparison with the description of Siphia cyanea from the mountains of Tenasserim and Perak, a very rare bird which is not represented in the Leyden Museum. This comparison absolutely convinced me that our Sumatran birds are...

On a probably new species of the genus Cercopithecus

Ano: 1897

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509366

In December 1910 the Zoological Garden of Rotterdam obtained, from a dealer, an interesting semi-adult female of a Cercopithecus, said to be imported from the Upper Congo, and belonging to the Mona-group as defined by Mr. R. I. Pocock in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 708. This specimen belongs, as far as I am aware, to a hitherto undescribed species, which I propose to name Cercopithecus petronellae.

On the genus Pycnonotus and some allied genera

Ano: 1911

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508612

This paper, based especially upon the material in the Leyden Museum, may be regarded as a little attempt to show how much a revision of the Pycnonotidae is needed. A fundamental revision only, embracing the whole group, will be able to thoroughly differentiate the many genera, and it will be a thankful task, for instance, to thoroughly separate Xenocichla from Criniger ¹) and Pycnonotus. This latter genus is very unsatisfactorily defined, and undoubtedly contains too many heterogenous elements, which ought to be just as well excluded as are Otocompsa and Kelaartia. In fact the genus Pycnonotus should be restricted to the African and Syrio-Arabian species, which are sufficiently characterized by their plain earthy brown or sandy brown color, without white...

On the specific value of Levaillant’s Traquet Commandeur

Ano: 1896

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508669

In his Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d’Afrique, Vol. IV, p. 84, pl. 189, Levaillant described and figured, under the name of »Traquet Commandeur”, a species of Bird, the type of which made part of the old Cabinet Temminck and at present contained in the Collections of the Leyden Museum. Our bird in question agrees very well with the colored plate given by Levaillant, with the exception of the shoulderpatch, which in the bird is white with a well pronounced rosy tinge, the white feathers being broadly tipped with rosy, especially so near the edge of the wing. The same is the case in Levaillant’s plate, only is the rose color on the tips to the feathers much exaggerated.

On a chestnut- and black weaver finch from Sumatra

Ano: 1892

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509112

While occupied with a revision of the genus Munia in the Leyden Museum, I met with two specimens of blackheaded chestnut-brown specimens from Sumatra. One of them is said to be a male, the other a female, and both are making the impression of adult birds. Both specimens, as far as I am aware the first ones of this group ever recorded from Sumatra, are the representatives of Munia atricapilla (Vieill.) from the Indian Continent and Malacca but may be easily distinguished from the latter and also from the Bornean birds by the abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts being maroon-brown instead of black. In the female some of the feathers on these parts are tipped with sooty brown. Another distinguishing character is the strawyellow tinge of the central pair of...

On two new species of Birds from South Celebes

Ano: 1892

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509132

Amongst the numerous birds, collected by the Dutch botanist Teysmann in the district of Macassar during the year 1878, the Leyden Museum is in possession of a specimen of the genus Cinnyris, which I am not able to identify with any known species and which I introduce here under the name of Cinnyris Teysmanni. Entire crown, sides of head, hind neck, mantle, back and rump, wing-coverts and outer edge of quills uniform earthy brown with a slight tinge of olive, upper tailcoverts purplish brown, tail-feathers purplish black, the outer webs narrowly edged with metallic green; chin and throat metallic purplish blue, flanked on both sides with a broad metallic green stripe, forming a moustachial streak which is produced down to the sides of the chest; the latter...

On a probably new species of Crypturus

Ano: 1893

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509296

A few days ago the Leyden Museum was presented by Dr. Kerbert, the Director of the Zoological Garden at Amsterdam, with a specimen of Crypturus which had been sent alive from Argentinia and died after having been kept in the Garden during the last winter. The specimen, an adult female with worn off tips of the wings and somewhat damaged on the hind neck, appears to belong to an undescribed species, which I propose to name

On two new species of the genus Stoparola from Celebes

Ano: 1896

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509090

Among the specimens of Stoparola in the Leyden Museum there are four from Celebes which prove to belong to two distinct and hitherto undescribed species.

On a probably new species of Newtonia from Madagascar

Ano: 1893

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508481

Amongst a number of specimens of Newtonia brunneicauda from Madagascar in our Museum, I found two specimens which differ considerably from the great number of typical N. brunneicauda and undoubtedly belong to a second, hitherto undescribed species of this genus, which I propose to name

On a collection of Birds from Flores, Samao and Timor

Ano: 1896

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508874

Last month the Leyden Museum received a small number of birds, presented by Dr. H. ten Kate, who bad collected them during his recent voyage through the above mentioned islands. Though most of the 29 species are already mentioned in the list given by Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484, I do not hesitate to give an enumeration of ten Kate’s collection, the more as it has given me the chance of describing a new species of Tropidorhynchus, , years ago discovered by Forsten and sent over since by Mr. van Lansberge, Prof. Max Weber and now contained in ten Kate’s recent collection.

On two new Birds of Paradise

Ano: 1891

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508630

Some weeks ago the Leyden Museum was kindly presented by Mr. J. Bensbach, of late Resident at Ternate, with two Birds of Paradise which belong to two different, hitherto undescribed, species.

On Phasianus ignitus and its nearest allies

Ano: 1895

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509041

While working out the ornithological results of the Dutch expedition to Central Borneo, I had to decide which name to bestow upon the Bornean Crested Fire-back, generally known as Euplocamus nobilis Scl., but afterwards united with E. ignitus Lath. by Elliot (Ibis 1878, p. 414), and lately also by Ogilvie Grant in his Catalogue of the Game Birds in the British Museum. A comparison of the Bornean specimens in the Leyden Museum with our very interesting other representatives of the Genus ¹) convinced me that we have to acknowledge not only two, as Elliot (l. c.) proposes, but four welldefined species, as will be fully explained hereafter in the key to the species.

On the immature dress of Microglossus aterrimus

Ano: 1896

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508672

Amongst a small number of birds, recently presented to the Leyden Museum by Mr. J. Bensbach, of late Resident at Ternate, I found a very interesting specimen of the Great Black Cockatoo from the Arfak Mountains, New Guinea, a specimen which I consider to be immature on account of the great extent of yellow on the black plumage and of the horny white color of the point of the bill and the front of the lower mandible. Unfortunately we know very little about the immature dress of this species, no nestling having been described as yet, and what is stated to characterize the young bird is the whitish tip of the upper and the horny white front of the lower mandible, as well as the more or less developed yellow cross-bars or vermiculations on the under wingand...

On two new species of Birds from Java and Celebes

Ano: 1895

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509148

Amongst a number of very valuable birds from the East-Indian Archipelago, lately presented to the Leyden Museum by Dr. A. G. Vorderman, I found a specimen which proofs to belong to a new species of Cryptolopha and which I propose to name after its discoverer, the meritorious ornithologist of the Malay Archipelago: