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A skin of a male antelope, collected by Mr. A. Sharpe in Southern Angoniland has been described by Mr. Oldfield Thomas under a new specific title, Rhaphiceros Sharpei (P. Z. S. L. 1896, p. 796, plate XXXIX); the author had no cranial evidence of its age, as the skull of the individual was wanting. Mr. Oldfield Thomas remarked that it is »a Rhaphiceros with the white markings of the Grysboh (melanotis), but with the feet of the Steinbok (campestris)”, i. e. no accessory hoofs. Now the description and the figure of this animal, its small size, its short horns, its relatively short ears make the impression as if it is a young Grysbok; the absence however of the accessory hoofs is the difficulty: but if we suppose that those very small — especially in a young...

On Vespertilio akokomuli and Vespertilio erythrodactylus, types of Temminck

Ano: 1900

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508436

Temminck ¹) states »il paraît que les Japonais confondent le Vespertilion macrodactyle avec le Vespertilion abrame, l’un et l’autre sont désignés par eux sous le nom de Komuli In the description of his V. abramus ²) however we read »nous conservons son nom japonais” viz. abrame. Concerning the indigenous name of V. akokomuli3) he says »son nom japonais est Komuli, que porte aussi le V. macrodactyle.” In the Fauna japonica 4) we learn „le nom japonais du V. macrodactyle n’est pas indiqué”, further 5) „le nom japonais du V. abrame est abramusi (insecte du lard)” and 6) »le nom japonais du V. akokomuli (akokomuli see supra) serait selon M. Burger Komuli ou akakomuli (Vespertilion noir)”. Finally Temminck 1) says »le nom japonais du V. molosse est aka-komuli.”

On Dactylumys dactylinus and Kannabareomys amblyonyx

Ano: 1880

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509103

Dactylomys is the name of a genus of South-American Rats, created in 1838 by Mr. Is. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire ¹) for the reception of Echimys dactylinus of Mr. E. Geoffroy- Saint-Hilaire (1817). Mr. Is. Geoffroy bestowed the specific title typus on that animal and herein all the later authors ²) have followed him, although according the rule of priority it would have been more correct to retain the name given by Mr. E. Geoffroy and to call the animal Dactylomys dactylinus. But as it perhaps is a matter of euphony and as Is. Geoffroy’s name typus once had gained the victory I followed in my paper in the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1887, p. 224, the bad example of my predecessors. Natterer brought home from his journeys in South-America two rats, described³)...

On two re-discovered Antelopes

Ano: 1891

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508980

Among the Mammals collected by our travellers in Liberia are two Antelopes of a peculiar scientific interest; the one procured by Mr. Büttikofer was only known from a description and name given to a flat skin without head, neck, extremities and tail; the other, sent over by Mr. Stampfli, is the first complete representative of a species created in favour of a skull without horns belonging to an Antelope. The named piece of a skin as well as the skull are in the British Museum. As in so many other cases, if species have been described after insufficient materials , these type-specimens have a very problematical scientific value and the results of the laughing efforts to create as many species as possible in order to secure types are in the case under...

On the Malayan and Papuan Pigs in the Leyden Museum

Ano: 1885

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508724

If we separate some aberrant forms like Babirussa, Dicotyles, Phacochoerus, Potamochoerus and Porcula ¹) from Cray’s suborder Setifera, there remains a large series of Pigs which present a striking resemblance in external appearance and in dentition; they more or less remember our common Sus scrofa. The latter is the only representant in Europe, meanwhile the others are distributed over Asia, the islands of the East Indian Archipelago and New-Guinea. If comparing the members of this group with Sus scrofa and at the same time if paying attention to their geographical distribution, one discovers that the group may be split in several smaller ones which generally coincide with a more or less restricted geographical area; names have been given to the latter...

On a new Taphozous from Java

Ano: 1891

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508806

Dr. P. N. van Kampen offered some bats to our Museum, all from the neighborhood of Batavia, Java. Among them is a Taphozous, an adult male, with a radiometacarpal pouch and a gular sac. Among the very few Taphozous-species known from the East Indian Region, there only is a single one, presenting these two characteristics combined, viz. Taphozous longimanus Hardwicke, from the Indian Continent. Dobson (Catalogue, p. 385) described a variety from Flores under the name of Taphozous longimanus leucopleurus (by an error in Trouessart’s splendid „Catalogus Mammalium” mentioned as leucopteurus and leucopterus). I registered in the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1897, p. 54, two specimens, collected by Mr. Goedhuis at Sintang, Borneo, a female and a young male,...

On a new genus and species of Bat from Celebes

Ano: 1907

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509427

Upper and lower lips deeply grooved; index finger with a distinct claw; wings from the back near the spine; metacarpal bone of the middle finger slightly shorter than the index finger; tail well developed, rather thick; in the upper jaw two incisors separated from the canines and from each other; upper canines grooved in front, lower canines inclined outwards.

Pithechir melanurus S. Müller

Ano: 1879

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Mr. J. D. Pasteur, well-known to the readers of our » Notes” (cf. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1890, p. 209), having removed from Padang Sidempoeau (Sumatra) to Batavia (Java), wrote to me to send him over a colored drawing of P. melanurus, for in the possession of it he dared say that he could procure specimens, if the species truly was to be found on the Goenong Gedeh. After having received the desired drawing he had neither rest nor repose until he had kept his word. And indeed on December 3, 1891 I received a postcard d. d. November 3, with the good news, that in his possession were two living adult specimens, ♂ and ♀, the latter with a half grown young, captured on the northern slope of the Goenong Gedeh and that he intended to send them over...

Ano: 1892

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508685

On Felis badia Gray

Among some very commonly known mammals, presented to the Leyden Museum by the well-known Dutch Borneoexplorer Dr. Nieuwenhuis, I found a fine Cat quite distinct from all other cats I ever saw; it has a size somewhat larger than Felis planiceps, a small head like that cat, a much longer tail and a much darker color — though of a uniform tinge like in planiceps — than the latter offers. Moreover there are, though only to see in certain lights, three stripes on the head from between the ears. No species having been described presenting the named peculiarities, I supposed the cat belonging to an undescribed form. Studying however the small uniformly colored Cats from Borneo, I was struck by the plate of Felis badia published by Dr. Gray in P. Z. S. L. 1874, as...

On a specimen of Herpestes semitorquatus Gray from Sumatra

Ano: 1901

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509218

In the year 1883 the Museum procured some animals from Soekadana, collected by Mr. J. C. van Hasselt. Among them was a specimen of the rare Herpestes semitorquatus, recorded in the Catalogue du Museum d’Histoire naturelle, T. XI, p. 125. Gray’s type-specimen (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, p. 211) being sent by Lowe from Borneo, I was convinced that my specimen too came from Borneo: Soekadana lies in Southwestern-Borneo. There is, however, an other locality called Soekadana and lying in the Lampongs, Southern Sumatra. And now I discover by an accident that Mr. v. Hasselt in 1883 dwelled in Soekadana, Southern-Sumatra, so that our specimen of H. semitorquatus is from the latter locality and not from Borneo. Sumatra therefore — and that is the reason why I...

On the genus Galidia and its species

Ano: 1895

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509229

In the year 1839 Is. Geoff. St. Hilaire ¹) described and figured three species of his new genus Galidia, viz: elegans, concolor and olivacea, all natives of Madagascar. It seems that Galidia olivacea has not been captured by the travellers who visited Madagascar after Bernier and Goudot: the only specimen hitherto known was the type of which Is. G. St. Hilaire relates “la queue, dans notre individu, est incomplète; mais, à en juger par la portion très étendue qui est conservée, elle paraît plus longue que chez la Galidie concolore”, and therefore every one meant that the tail of the species in question would be as long as it is in Galidia eoncolor ²). The two other species are of frequent occurrence, especially Galidia elegans: some writers considered them...

Some additions to the Mammalian-fauna of Billiton

Ano: 1879

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In the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1890, p. 149, I said that Sciurus prevostii belongs to the fauna of Billiton; this statement was based upon two specimens procured by the late Teysmann in 1877 in that island and presented to our Museum (cf. Cat. syst. des Mammifères, 1888, p. 26, m and n). Dr. Vorderman kindly informs me that Sciurus prevostii perhaps formerly has been introduced there and afterwards has grown wild. Specimens have been brought over from Mendanao, a small island close to the west coast of Billiton, and are at present living in Billiton in the neighborhood of Tandjong Pandan, N. W. Billiton, in the gardens, having escaped from their cages. He nowhere in the interior observed a single specimen. According to Dr. Vorderman in Billiton is...

On Strepsiceros kudu and Strepsiceros imberbis

Ano: 1891

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509128

In a »notice of two overlooked species of Antelope” by Mr. Edward Blyth (P. Z. S. L. 1869) we read on p. 55 the following passage: »Dr. Gray, in his »List of specimens »of Mammalia in the British Museum” (1850, p. 143), »under Strepticeros kudu notices »Var. smaller. Inhabits »Abyssinia; Mus. E. I. C.; Mus. Frankfort, adult and »young.” I consider this small kudu, of which adults of »both sexes are figured and described by Sir Andrew »Smith, to be decidedly a well-marked species; and therefore I now propose for it the name of Strepticeros imberbis.” As Dr. Gray did not publish in 1850 a book entitled »List of specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum”, Mr. Blyth apparently meant herewith the well-known »Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the...

On a new species of Hyrax (Hyrax Stampflii) from Liberia

Ano: 1890

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508503

In the P. Z. S. L. of the year 1852, p. 99, we find a description of a new Hyrax from Fernando-Po by Fraser. This new species, Hyrax dorsalis, is rather insufficiently described and the figures (Plate XXXIII) have no value at all. In the following year, 1853, Temminck published his »Esquisses Zoologiques sur la Côte de Guinée” and described a new species of Hyrax, H. sylvestris; was evidently not acquainted with Fraser’s knew Temminck Hyrax, he only Hyrax syriacus, capensis and arboreus. Now I am convinced that Temminck’s species is the same as Fraser’s and although Temminck’s description is very extensive and clear, meanwhile this cannot be said of that of Fraser, the latter having the priority of some months, the species in question ought to be called H....

On the „Diana” and the „Roloway”

Ano: 1886

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508908

Since more than a century the »Diana” has become such a well known Monkey that every child can show it you in every Zoological Garden. Therefore it may be called somewhat hazardously to move the supposition that — although it seems to be so familiar an animal to children — it has always been misunderstood by naturalists and scientific authors. In our collection there are 9 specimens (among them 2 from the Gold-coast and 4 from Liberia) all labeled Cercopithecus diana. Some weeks ago Mr. Oscar Neumann, the excellent German Africa-traveller, told me that he had observed some differences between our Liberia- and Gold-coast-specimens, differences sufficiently striking to regard upon them as two distinct species. I now have studied the thing and believe to be...

On the species of the Phalanger-genus Pseudochirus

Ano: 1899

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509110

Pseudochirus is a well-defined genus of Phalangers, which, up to this time, embraced three species: cookii, bernsteinii and albertisii. Pseudochirus viverrinus Ogilby (1837), from Van Diemen’s Land, is regarded as specifically distinct from Ps. cookii Desmarest (1817), from the Australian Continent. They are also separated by Gould (Mammals of Australia, 1863), who stated that the island examples are of a larger size and always dressed in a softer and longer fur and who said, that for the present he regarded them as distinct. Gould remarked an analogical phenomenon in Trichosurus lemurinus or vulpinus from the Australian Continent and Trichosurus fuliginosus from Van Diemen’s Land. He says „the skins of the Island and Continental Animals are both made into...

On the Rhinoceroses from the East-Indian-Archipelago

Ano: 1884

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509048

It seems that the distribution of the Rhinocerotidae over the islands of the Malayan Archipelago is still a puzzle to all the authors, unscientific as well as scientific ones, even to the most modern writers on the subject. This fact is the more surprising as fifty years ago the question was nearly settled and as since the year 1876 the problem in fact does not exist more at all. Sal. Müller and Herm. Schlegel said 1839—44 ¹), that in Sumatra was living Rhinoceros sumatrensis, and in Java another species Rhinoceros sondaicus; the latter perhaps also in Borneo. Beautifully executed plates illustrate their accurate and excellent descriptions. The open question thus was this: does there exist a Rhinoceros in Borneo, and if so, to what species may it belong?

Two undescribed Shrews from Mount Pangerango, Java

Ano: 1895

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508783

The following middle-sized and small Shrews have been described from Java, viz.: Crocidura brunnea Jent. (without further indication of locality); Cr. orientalis Jent. and brevicauda Jent. (from Tjibodas near Sindanglaja) and Cr. monticola Peters (from Mount Lawoe near Soerakarta). I have to add two species: a small one based upon a specimen collected by Mr. Bartels at an altitude of 3000 feet on Mount Pangerango (Gedé) and a larger one based upon three individuals procured also by Mr. Bartels from the same locality. They were presented by Mr. Bartels to our Museum.

On three rare South-American Mammals

Ano: 1910

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508751

Some weeks ago I procured a small collection of Mammals and Birds collected by Mr. J. H. (I have not been happy enough to investigate the name) in the years 1880 and 1881. The specimens labeled 1880 are from Nauta; those with the label 1881 are from Samiria. Nauta is a locality in North-Eastern-Peru on the Marañon-River, visà-vis the mouth of the Ucayali-River. Samiria is a name quite new to me and not on the maps, but I think that this locality is to be found in the neighborhood of Nauta and is perhaps the same as Chambira on the maps: and if this supposition is right then it is a locality in Ecuador, on the River of the same name, a branch of the Marañon. That it is not without interest to know the exact situation of the latter locality will be clear if...

On Trichys Fasciculata (Shaw)

Ano: 1887

URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509060

Linnaeus bestowed the name Hystrix macroura on a Porcupine, described and figured by Seba in 1734. Seba remarked: »La queue est la partie la plus admirable de cet animal; elle est d’une grande longueur, diminuant insensiblement, hérissée de poils piquans, et finissant en épi d’une façon toute particulière; car ses poils paroissent composés de noeuds ¹) d’une manière très-artificieuse; d’abord on voit un poil délié que reçoit un autre poil plus long et plus gros, à peu près comme sont arrangées les graines de Ris enfermées dans leurs capsules ¹). Chacun d’eux n’est pas de la même longueur, ni de la même grosseur, mais joints ensemble ils forment un faisceau transparent, et qui jette un éclat qu’on peut nommer argentin”. Seba figured the specimen belonging...