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In Memoriam E.D. van Oort 1876 - 1933
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Bayer, Ch.
On September 21st last Professor Dr. E. D. van Oort died at Leiden rather suddenly. For a considerable time his health had, indeed, been indifferent; on frequent occasions he had been unwell for shorter or longer periods, and in the spring of this year he was even obliged to apply for a four months' leave of absence. When after the expiry of this period, apparently recovered, he resumed his work, be it only for a few hours daily, we fostered the hope to have him among us for many years to come. Fate, however, decided differently. On Thursday morning he came to the museum, feeling better than on the previous days; he received the visitors cheerfully, and left the building past noon. Three hours later death had overtaken him.  Eduard Daniel van Oort was born...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: E. D. van Oort; Obituary; 42.01; 42.83.
Ano: 1933
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318980

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 39. The correct name for the Mangrove Whistler Pachycephala cinerea (Blyth)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Walters, M.P.
The correct scientific name for the Mangrove Whistler is Pachycephala cinerea (Blyth, 1847) and not Pachycephala grisola (Blyth, 1843). The proposal for change by Mukherjee (1970) was based on a purported type specimen of the latter, which cannot qualify as a type.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Mangrove Whistler; Pachycephala cinerea; Nomenclature; Type; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220223

Remarks on Chalcites malayanus (Raffles)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
Till now it was assumed that the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes are inhabited by the typical race of Chalcites malayanus. At Prof. Stresemann's request I compared the beautiful series collected by Heinrich in Celebes with the material in the Leiden Museum and it proved that the above mentioned region is inhabited by more than one race. Especially in series these races are well recognizable. Material was kindly sent me on loan by the British Museum, the Buitenzorg Museum, and the Raffles Museum. Chalcites malayanus malayanus (Raffles) Cuculus malayanus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 13, 1821, p. 286 (Malay Peninsula). The upperparts are greenish tinged, in some specimens with a more or less bronze gloss. The forehead with a varying...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1938
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318016

Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Bird Collections, 10-12 October 2003, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands [editorial]
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Güntert, M.; Howlett, P.; Loneux, M.S.; Roselaar, C.S.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 3rd European Conference on Bird Collections; Leiden; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210790

Current perspectives on the evolution of birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Ericson, P.G.P.
The paper summarizes the current understanding of the evolution and diversification of birds. New insights into this field have mainly come from two fundamentally different, but complementary sources of information: the many newly discovered Mesozoic bird fossils and the wealth of genetic analyses of living birds at various taxonomic levels. The birds have evolved from theropod dinosaurs from which they can be defined by but a few morphological characters. The early evolutionary history of the group is characterized by the extinctions of many major clades by the end of the Cretaceous, and by several periods of rapid radiations and speciation. Recent years have seen a growing consensus about the higher- level relationships among living birds, at least as...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Phylogeny; Systematics; Fossils; DNA; Genetics; Biogeography; 42.83.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/280479

On the sinus lumbosacralis, spina bifida occulta, and status dysraphicus in birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Jelgersma, H.C.
The sinus rhomboidalis sacralis or sinus lumbosacralis as it is named by Ariens Kappers (1920) is an interesting anatomical part of the lumbosacral region of the avian spinal medulla. It is found in birds only and neither in reptiles nor in mammals. Fig. 1 shows the lumbosacral part of the spinal medulla of Phoenicopterus Pig. 1. Spinal medulla of Phoenicopterus, dorsal view, with sinus lumbosacralis and corpus gelatinosum. From Imhof (1905). seen from the dorsal surface and Fig. 2 represents a diagrammatic transverse section through the lumbosacral part. These figures show some peculiarities that are found in birds only. All vertebrates with hind limbs have a lumbosacral enlargement of the spinal medulla, but in birds this enlargement has become more...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1951
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318568

Morphological variation and taxonomic revision of five south-eastern subspecies of Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca (L.) (Aves: Sylviidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Loskot, V.M.
Individual, sex, age, seasonal and geographic variation of size and plumage coloration of Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca (Linnaeus, 1758) was studied on more than 1100 bird skins from all parts of its breeding range. The results of analysis of birds from the south-eastern part of the breeding range of the species support the validity of five light-coloured subspecies: halimodendri Sushkin, 1904, telengitica Sushkin, 1925, snigirewskii Stachanow, 1929, minula Hume, 1873, and margelanica Stolzmann, 1897. Their diagnoses and ranges are refined and supplemented. Numerous phenotypically intermediate birds from intergradation zones between the subspecies show that these five together with the two northern darkcoloured forms S. c. curruca and S. c. blythi...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sylvia; Lesser Whitethroat; Species-limits; Intergradation; Subspecies; Nomenclature; Systematics; Intraspecific variation; Size; Plumage coloration; Distribution.; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210817

The mysterious Carpophaga vandepolli Büttikofer
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
In 1896 Büttikofer (Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. 18) published upon a collection of birds from Nias, collected there by Kannegieter. In this paper he described a new species, Carpophaga vandepolli (p. 190). This bird is closely allied to Carpophaga consobrina (now called Ducula aenea consobrina Salvad.), but is different "by a large pinkish brown patch on the occiput and the conspicuously wine-red color of the breast". In D. a. consobrina these parts are a splendid grey colour, sometimes more or less washed with a vinaceous tinge. In discussing this new species Büttikofer said: "It is not without hesitation that I describe this bird as new, the idea being rather perplexing that two so closely allied species should inhabit so small an island as Nias"....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1935
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318201

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 9. The “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées” of Temminck &amp; Laugier (1820-1839)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
The “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées” of Temminck &amp; Laugier (1820-1839) contains many descriptions of new birds and is of fundamental importance to the history of ornithology. A new detailed review of the evidence presented by the book itself has brought clarity to the relationships between the plates and the livraisons2 of which they were a part. The opportunity has been taken to provide a fresh list of dates for the livraisons, this contains minor changes to that of Zimmer (1926) and the earlier, more widely known one of Sherborn (1898). After this study reached its conclusions important new information has come to light, which confirms the main findings. The second part of this paper reviews specific cases investigated. These relate to Asian...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Temminck; Nomenclature; Priority; Cancellation; Substitution; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219904

A new race of Dicrurus from the Island Morotai (N. Moluccas)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Bemmel, A.C.V. van.
In preparing a Handlist of the birds of the Moluccan islands, I found among the material in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, a race of Dicrurus that needs description: Dicrurus bracteatus morotaiensis nov. subspec. Diagnosis: Distinguished from atrocaeruleus Gray (1860) — Batjan and Halmahera — by smaller culmen and wing. Habitat: Island Morotai (N. Moluccas). Measurements in mm: ♂♂ culmen: 29; 29; 28.5; 28.5; 30 wing: 150; 148; 147; 152; 149 ♀♀ culmen: 27; 29; 30 wing: 149; 147; 145. For comparison the following measurements are given: Halmahera: ♂♂ culmen: 32; 32; 32; 31; 33; 33; 32; 32 wing: 162; 161; 175; 169; 166; 169; 168; 168 ♀♀ culmen: 32; 34; 33; 31; 31 wing: 160; 165; 168; 162; 162 sex inc. culmen: 32; 32; 31; 33 wing: 159; 167;...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318240

A list of the birds known from Roti and adjacent islets (Lesser Sunda Islands)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION Father Verheijen (in press) has given a narrative of his visit to Roti, with a list of all birds recorded from material, personal observations, and hearsay. Although several of Verheijen's own field observations are entirely reliable, other species mentioned by him cannot be regarded as of anything but very doubtful occurrence. Therefore I have considered it useful to compile a list of those birds which are now known from collected specimens. Previous to Father Verheijen's studies, ornithological knowledge of Roti rested entirely on a visit to the island made by the anthropologist Dr. H. F. C. ten Kate in 1891 (22 August — 9 September). During his stay ten Kate did some collecting of miscellaneous zoological objects, which he forwarded to...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1975
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318750

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 11. A preliminary review of the Alaudidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The taxonomic treatment of Asian taxa of larks (Alaudidae) is discussed and recommendations are made for further evaluation or awareness of competing hypotheses as to treatment.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Larks; Alaudidae; Review; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219909

Zur Nomenklatur einiger Raubvögel und Eulen
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
1. Aviceda jerdoni borneensis (Brüggemann) In der Literatur wird Sharpe (1893) als Autor des Namen Baza borneensis betrachtet, und der ältere Name Baza borneensis Brüggemann (1876) als nomen nudum verworfen (z.B. bei Peters, 1931). Das ist aber nicht richtig denn obschon Brüggemann selbst die Art (oder Rasse) nicht beschrieb, basierte er sie ganz auf einen von Schlegel (1873) unter dem Namen Baza magninostris (Fehldruck für Baza magnirostris) beschriebenen Vogel von Pontianak. Da Brüggemann auf eine Beschreibung hinweist, ist sein Name gültig. Die Borneo-Rasse von Aviceda jerdoni soll deshalb Aviceda jerdoni borneensis (Brüggemann, 1876) heissen, und nicht Aviceda jerdoni borneensis (Sharpe, 1893). Es ist merkwürdig dass die jenigen die Sharpe (1893) als...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1967
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319052

Dawn chorus variation in East-Asian tropical montane forest birds and its ecological and morphological correlates
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Chen, W.-M.; Lee , Y.-F.; Tsai, C.-F.; Yao, C.-T.; Chen, Y.-H.; Li, S.-H.; Kuo, Y.-M.
Many birds in breeding seasons engage in vigorous dawn singing that often turns to a prominent chorus. We examined dawn chorus variation of avian assemblages in a tropical montane forest in Taiwan and tested the hypothesis that onset sequence is affected by eye sizes, foraging heights, and diet of birds. Chorus onset and duration varied between sampling months, but generally peaked in the prime breeding season. Overall dawn chorus length increased with, but mean duration per species was negatively correlated with, species richness. The inter-correlation among trait variables in phylogenetic independent contrasts was calculated and examined. Both foraging height and relative eye size were selected as positively explanatory factors, but no dietary effects...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Breeding; Canopy; Diets; Eye size; Foraging; Perch; Taiwan; Tropical forests; Birds; 42.83; 42.62.
Ano: 2015
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/578950

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 37. Types of the Chloropseidae and Irenidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.
A list of about 50 names applied to species of leafbirds (family Chloropseidae) and 15 names applied to species of fairy bluebirds (family Irenidae) is presented. This list provides information on the whereabouts of a type. Where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Chloropseidae; Leafbirds; Irenidae; Fairy bluebirds; Types; Type species; Lectotype designations; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220221

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 53. The authorship and date of publication of the “Catalogue of the Specimens and Drawings of Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet presented by B.H. Hodgson, Esq. to the British Museum”
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Walters, M.
The authorship of this work or at least the ornithological part of it, and of the subsequent 1863 report, is best attributed to both John Edward Gray, who signed the preface, and his brother George Robert Gray. The first report has an imprint date of 1846, but evidence shows that this was not available as a published work until January 1847. The potential for priority conflict between this Catalogue and papers by Hodgson and Blyth in 1844-46, and between the Catalogue and G.R. Gray (1844-49), is discussed; and the new names proposed by Gray &amp; Gray in the Catalogue are examined to see which were immediately in synonymy when they were published. Attention is drawn to the correct authorship of the generic name Aceros as being Hodgson and not J.E. Gray.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Date; Authorship; Priority; Aceros.; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209994

Zosterops montana minima nomen novum for Zosterops montana minor Hoogerwerf &amp; De Boer from Mt. Papandajan (South Priangan, West Java)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
In a previous paper (Hoogerwerf and De Boer, 1947, p. 252) we described as Zosterops montana minor a new white-eye from Mt. Papandajan (South Priangan, West Java). Mr. A. C. V. van Bemmel and Dr. Ernst Mayr, however, called our attention to the fact, that the subspecific name minor cannot be used in this case, because this name is preoccupied by Zosterops albiventer minor Meyer. 1874 (p. 105) from Jobi, New Guinea, which is known as Zosterops minor minor in Mayr's (1941) List. On account of the above we have to introduce a new name for Zosterops montana minor. We take this opportunity to add to the original dutch description the following particulars. Siebers (1929, p. 151) separated birds belonging to this species from Central Java (Mt. Sumbing and...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1949
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318660

Temporal and spatial patterns of laying in the Moluccan megapode Eulipoa wallacei (G.R. Gray)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Baker, G.C.
The Moluccan megapode Eulipoa wallacei (G.R. Gray, 1860) lays its eggs at night in the sand at communal nesting beaches. The majority of the world’s Moluccan megapode population rely on only two nesting grounds on the islands of Halmahera and Haruku, Indonesia. An understanding of the ecological characteristics of these breeding sites is thus important in terms of conservation. Studies of the largest of the two nesting grounds in Halmahera have shown specific temporal and spatial patterns of egg laying. In this paper I discuss the adaptive significance and conservation implications of these laying patterns.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Moluccan megapode; Eulipoa wallacei; Egg production; Lunar synchrony; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219420

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 31. Eastern races of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Eck, S.; Milensky, C.M.
The types of two Far-eastern forms of barn swallow Hirundo rustica saturata Ridgway, 1883 and H. r. mandschurica Meise, 1934 are compared. A significant difference in the colour of the underparts is confirmed and the recognition of mandschurica is recommended.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Hirundo rustica saturata; Hirundo rustica mandschurica; Hirundinidae; Types; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220211

Malleefowl conservation in New South Wales: a review
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Priddel, D.; Wheeler, R.
Together with land clearance, grazing by stock and inappropriate fire regimes, predation by the introduced European red fox Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) has decimated populations of malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould, 1840. The decline of the malleefowl has been most pronounced in New South Wales, where foxes prey so heavily on malleefowl that adult mortality exceeds recruitment of young into the breeding population. Although young malleefowl are particularly vulnerable to foxes, subadults and adults are also taken. Within New South Wales, heavy predation by foxes occurs both in the remnants of native vegetation within agricultural lands and in the large tracts of mallee that lie further inland. Foxes appear to be the prime cause of malleefowl mortality...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Malleefowl; Leipoa ocellata; Threatening processes; Conservation; Management; Recovery actions; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219426

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 23. Types of the Campephagidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.
A list of nearly 300 names applied to Asian forms of species of cuckoo-shrikes and minivets and their allies (family Campephagidae) is provided. This list provides information on the whereabouts of a type; where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information. Lectotypes are designated for the following: Phoenicornis affinis McClelland, 1840; Muscicapa flammea Forster, 1781; Phoenicornis elegans Horsfield, 1840.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Campephagidae; Cuckoo-shrikes; Cicadabirds; Trillers; Minivets; Types; Lectotype designations; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220203

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 54. Comments on the names proposed by Hodgson (1845) and their priority
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Walters, M.
Hodgson (1845) described 49 ‘new’ taxa. It appears that when he prepared this paper for publication Hodgson was unaware of parallel publications by Blyth. Conflicts of priority are thus a concern and although Blyth’s relevant papers have generally been conceded to have priority the ‘fit’ of the dates has not previously been clearly explained. We apply the dates for Blyth’s papers provided by Dickinson &amp; Pittie (2006) and confirm that these fit with previous understanding, implying that no fresh issues of priority arise. 26 of the 49 ‘new’ taxa prove not to have been new, having been named before. Of 18 Hodgson names 16 are in current use. Another has been replaced by a nomen novum due to preoccupation, and one more has been declared a nomen oblitum....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: History; Priority; Synonymy; Hodgson; Blyth; Type locality; Restriction; Ficedula tricolor tricolor; Ficedula tricolor leucomelanura; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209996

Bird specimens - an invaluable resource for genetical studies and conservation
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Gamauf, A.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Specimens; DNA; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210820

Some data on the status of the Spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia L., in Europe, especially in the Netherlands
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Brouwer, G.A.
(33rd Publication of the Vogeltrekstation Foundation) The steady increase of the human population with all its consequences is an omnipresent threat to the wildlife of the Netherlands, especially to the larger animals who make greater demands on their habitat. That is why preservationists must continuously watch that the living conditions of such species do not drop below a certain level. Besides the various reclamation works and reallotment schemes that have been carried out all over the country, the huge hydraulic-engineering works, known as the "Delta Plan" in the provinces of Zuid-Holland and Zeeland will probably prove to have a really serious effect on the birds that are in the habit of feeding in tidal waters. For these hydraulic works will close...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319089

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 26. Types of the Pycnonotidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Loskot, V.; Morioka, V.; Violani, C.; Voisin, C.
A list of about 370 names applied to Asian forms of species of bulbul (family Pycnonotidae) is presented. This list provides information on the whereabouts of a type; where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information. A lectotypes is designated for P[ycnonotus]. Yourdini [sic] “(Homb. &amp; Jacq.)” G.R. Gray, 1847. Comments are also made on previous lectotype designations for Hypsipetes rufigularis Sharpe, 1877, and Criniger simplex Wallace, 1862, and on the need to designate one for Pycnonotus rufocaudatus Eyton, 1845.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Pycnonotidae; Bulbuls; Types; Type species; Lectotype designations; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220206

The use of museum specimens as source of DNA
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Cibois, A.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Museum specimens; DNA extraction; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210819

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 20. Recent additions to the list of type specimens of birds collected by Walter Koelz in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Payne, R.B.
Four previously unrecognized holotypes are listed, and two syntypes reported for another bird described by Koelz, from the Koelz collection in Assam.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Koelz; Holotypes; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219936

Reptilia (Sauropsida) - reptielen, dinosauriërs &amp; vogels
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Nieukerken, E.J. van.
Tipo: Article in monograph or in proceedings
Palavras-chave: Biodiversiteit; Nederland; Reptielen; Dinosauriërs; Vogels; 42.83.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/407573

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 4. A preliminary review of the Pittidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
Recent taxonomic treatments of Asian taxa of pittas (Pittidae) are discussed and recommendations are made for further evaluation or for awareness of competing hypotheses as to treatment.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Pitta; Pittidae; Review; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219438

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 16. The type of Pitta baudii Müller &amp; Schlegel, 1839 (Pittidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Dickinson, E.C.
Further research into the type of Pitta baudii Müller &amp; Schlegel, 1839, showed that Dickinson et al. (2000) erred in referring to the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden as the collection where a type specimen of this taxon is kept. The correction of the date of description to 1839 has revealed that the four selected specimens cannot be types. The museum received them too late. The confusion has been traced to one of the four being labelled “type”. This we find refers to the illustration by J. Wolf published in June 1845. The 1839 plate was suppressed and the original type relative to this taxon as illustrated therein has not been traced; a depiction of this is therefore of considerable importance. The suppressed plate has been located and is...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Pitta baudii; Type-specimen; Validation; Temminck; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219915

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 33. The type of Cyornis unicolor harterti Robinson &amp; Kinnear, 1928, and associated nomenclatural issues
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Walters, M.
The complex history of the nomenclature of the Malayan and Greater Sundan population of Cyornis unicolor is discussed and corrections to type localities relating to two names are provided. The whereabouts of critical type material is revealed and a lectotype is designated. Information given by Watson et al. (1986) is thus amended.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Cyornis unicolor harterti; Rhinomyias umbratilis; Rhinomyias olivacea; Nomen novum; Type locality; Lectotype selection; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220213

The biogeography and extinction of megapodes in Oceania
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Steadman, D.W.
The arrival of prehistoric peoples in Oceania over the past several millennia resulted in the extinction of many species and populations of megapodes. Before these anthropogenic losses, species of megapodes ranged across Melanesia, Western Polynesia, and much of Micronesia. Island groups that lack megapodes today but were inhabited by them in the past include New Caledonia, Fiji, the Ha`apai Group and `Eua (Tonga), Samoa, Niue, and Pohnpei. The extinct megapodes varied in size from a tiny, quail-like species of Megapodius in Tonga to the large, flightless Sylviornis of New Caledonia. Remote Tongan islands as small as 13 km2 were able to sustain three species of Megapodius before human impact, thus calling into question the validity of using modern species...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Biogeography; Extinction; Oceania; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219416

The MNHN taxonomic referential: state and ongoing developments
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Bruckert, R.
The relational database of taxonomic references developed in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), in Paris, has been greatly improved. New names, principally synonyms, have been added to the database following four lines: (1) The referential has been improved taxonomically: type-species of genera have been defined; species names renamed by nomina nova have been searched and entered as well as the source(s) of conflict of the species homonym(s); also, combinatio nova or new combinations of species names given by authors of new genera have been databased. (2) The names which were found written on the labels of the specimens of the MNHN collection have been databased. The computerization of the MNHN collection has started with the Suboscines,...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Ornithology; Systematics; Taxonomy; Classifications; Bird names; Types; Collections; Relational database; Aves; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210800

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 43. Types of the Oriolidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Loskot, V.; Morioka, H.; Voisin, C.; Voisin, J.-F.
A list of about 110 names applied to Asian forms of species of orioles (family Oriolidae) is presented. This list provides information on the whereabouts of type specimens. Where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Oriolidae; Orioles; Types; Type species; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215555

New bird records from Biak Island
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
Mr. C. Hoogerheide, who was stationed at the Netherlands Naval Air Base at Biak Island between July 1953 and December 1954, brought together a small collection of birds, which was sent to the Leiden Museum. It is worth while to put on record those species, which have not been collected before on this island and to give remarks on a few other species. An excellent review of the avifauna of Biak Island is given by Mayr and De Schauensee (1939). Fregata ariel ariel (Gray) A ♂ imm. and a ♀ imm. have been collected by Mr. F. Heuberger at sea near the south coast of Soepiori between Korrido and the kampong Soëk on July 26, 1952. Through the intermediary of Dr. L. D. Brongersma the specimens were presented to the Leiden Museum. Near this island the species has...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1956
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318304

Malacocincla abbotti baweana in het museum te Buitenzorg
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
Bartels &amp; Stresemann noemen op p. 128 van hun „Systematische Übersicht der bisher von Java nachgewiesenen Vögel" (Treubia, vol. XI, 1929) Malacocincla abbotti baweana, waarbij de volgende aanteekening wordt gemaakt: „Zwei Exemplare in U. S. Nat. Museum, gesammelt von Dr. W. L. Abbott. Uns nicht bekannt. —" Aangezien Siebers in zijn aan dit overzicht toegevoegde „Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen" geen melding maakt van tot deze soort behoorende vogels in de Museum-collectie te Buitenzorg, meenden wij, dat het van voldoende beteekenis was hier mededeeling te doen van enkele daar aanwezige balgen van deze timalia. Het gaat hier om twee ♂♂ en twee ♀♀, die op 13 Mei 1928, dus reeds voordat de hierboven genoemde lijst het licht zag, door Dammerman, destijds...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318934

The birds in the collection of the Zoological Museum of the University of Liège: diversity and interest, a first approach
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Loneux, M.S.
Most birds in the Liège Museum of Zoology have been collected during the 19th century. Between 1835 and 1871, Theodore Lacordaire acquired skins from South-East Asia through Francis Laporte Comte de Castelnau. Later, between 1872 and 1910, Edouard Van Beneden bought Belgian birds. At present, some 6,000 avian specimens are recorded as mounted skins, skeletons, skulls, eggs or organs preserved in alcohol. Since the 1970s, new specimens added to the collection are either gifts from private collections or fresh birds found dead. As we achieved to computerise the collections in a FileMaker Pro database, statistics by taxonomy, geographical origin or other criteria can be extracted. The museum also houses a few specimens of threatened or extinct species. The...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: University museum; Liège Museum of Zoology; Bird collection; Extinct species; Castelnau; Van Beneden; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210793

On a collection of birds from the Khwae Noi Valley, Western Siam
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.; Kooiman, J.G.
The present paper deals with a collection brought together by J. G. Kooiman in 1946. After the defeat of Japan, some Dutch biologists, who during the war had worked as prisoners of war on the notorious Burma railroad, biologically explored the Khwae Noi valley. Kooiman joined this party as an ornithologist. The collection might have been larger, but shooting was limited by the exceedingly high prices of cartridges at that time. The lack of field glasses also was an inconvenience. The collection is of interest as it is the first from this part of Siam. Afterwards the collection was sent to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, where it was worked out by Junge, who is responsible for the taxonomical part of the paper. Kooiman added the field notes....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1951
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317771

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 17. Types of birds collected in Yunnan by George Forrest and described by Walter Rothschild
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: LeCroy, M.; Dickinson, E.C.
We have examined the types of 41 nominal taxa based mostly on five bird collections made by George Forrest in Yunnan and described by Lord Walter Rothschild. In some cases, there is a need to designate lectotypes, which we do. We also clarify which types are in Tring and which are in New York (correcting an error previously published). Birds from Forrest’s 1930-1931 Yunnan expedition seem not to have been written up. A map is provided.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Types; Lectotypes; Yunnan; Forrest; Rothschild; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219916

Avian hybrids: incidence and geographic distribution of hybridisation in birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Aliabadian, M.; Nijman, V.
Tipo: Book review
Palavras-chave: Book review; Geographic distribution; Hybridisation; Birds; 42.83.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/217426

Biographische notities betreffende ornithologische verzamelaars in Suriname in het begin van de 19e eeuw : Mr. Charles François Mirandolle (1789-1841) Mr. Adriaan François Lammens (1767-1847)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Haverschmidt, F.
Ornithologists have named many birds after their discoverers, collectors or others they wished to honour. However, it is sometimes not clear exactly whom the person commemorated is; sometimes there is merely a mention of Mr. X. without any initial, at other times no individual is mentioned at all. (O. E. Wynne, Biographical key — Names of birds of the world — to authors and those commemorated. 1969). MR. CHARLES FRANÇ OIS MIRANDOLLE In 1862 beschreef Hermann Schlegel in „Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays Bas — Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement" (hierna kortheidshalve „Revue méthodique" genoemd) een roofvogel uit Suriname onder de naam Astur mirandollei (thans Micrastur mirandollei (Schlegel)). Een vrijwel...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.01; 42.83.
Ano: 1976
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317270

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 66. Types of the Sittidae and Certhiidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Loskot, V.M.; Morioka, H.; Somadikarta, S.; Elzen, R. van den; Kalyakin, M.; Voisin, C.; Voisin, J.-F.
A list is presented of 126 names applied to Asian forms of nuthatch and wallcreeper species (family Sittidae) and of treecreeper and spotted creeper species (family Certhiidae). This list provides information on the whereabouts of type specimens. Where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information. A lectotype is designated for Sitta frontalis Swainson, 1820.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sittidae; Certhiidae; Nuthatches; Wallcreeper; Treecreepers; Types; Synonymy; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210086

The Philippine subspecies of Centropus bengalensis (Gmelin) (Aves, Cuculidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
The Philippine populations of Centropus bengalensis had been generally included in the widely distributed subspecies C. b. javanensis (Dumont), type locality Java, until Deignan (1955) observed that the population of Palawan is actually referable to this subspecies, but: "that those of other islands are separable by having, in fresh plumage, increased nigrescence of the anterior upper parts, the black or blackish area usually extending to the center of the back". For this subspecies Deignan used the name C. molkenboeri Bonaparte (1850: 108, "ex Philippinis"), which had been listed as a synonym of C. b. javanensis by Shelley (1891), Stresemann (1912) and Hachisuka (1934-1935). Parkes (1957) confirmed and amplified Deignan's findings as regards the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1971
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319249

Enige gegevens over de uitgestorven ral Pareudiastes pacificus Hartlaub &amp; Finsch
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INLEIDING De vondst in het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie van twee stuks van de uitgestorven ral Pareudiastes pacificus Hartlaub &amp; Finsch, waarvan de aanwezigheid klaarblijkelijk nog nooit in de literatuur vermeld werd en derhalve volkomen onbekend was, werd voor mij aanleiding eens na te gaan wat er van deze merkwaardige soort bekend is, en hoeveel materiaal er nog in musea bestaat.  GESCHIEDENIS EN MATERIAAL De geschiedenis van de soort begon in 1869 toen de bekende reiziger van het Museum Godeffroy te Hamburg, J. Kubary, op het eiland Savaii, het grootste eiland van de Samoa groep, twee stuks verzamelde, welke hij opstuurde naar Hamburg. Reeds spoedig na ontvangst aldaar werd de soort door Hartlaub &amp; Finsch (1871) beschreven onder de thans...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1977
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318502

Additional records of birds from Formosa (Taiwan)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Since the publication of my paper on birds from Formosa (Mees, 1970), a few more collections have been received from the same source. A ban has now been placed on hunting and export of wild birds by the government of the Republic of China — an enlightened and overdue piece of legislation — with the result that the connection has come to an end and no more material is to be expected from Formosa. Although the later collections do not contain anything spectacular, a few records merit publication and for the reason stated this is a good moment for doing so. I take the opportunity to report on a few specimens from our old collection and from other sources. Appended are a bibliography of ornithological papers that have appeared since Hachisuka &amp; Udagawa's...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1977
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319092

New discoveries from old sources, with reference to the original bird and mammal fauna of the Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hume, J.P.; Prys-Jones, R.P.
The faunal history of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues) has been extensively documented, with most information being derived from the fossil record, museum skins, the journals and logbooks of early mariners and contemporary illustrations. However, our research on original sources, including Dutch journals held at The Hague, and archival correspondence and fossil collections, notably at The Natural History Museum, London, and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, indicates that many problems remain to be resolved. This situation has been exacerbated by exchange schemes amongst museums, personal rivalries, misidentification, lack of comparative material, and inadequate provenance of specimens; furthermore, problematic and...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Mascarene Islands; Extinct birds; Iconographical evidence; Journals; Diaries; Museum specimens; Fossils; Loans and exchanges; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210798

The subspecies of Chlidonias hybridus (Pallas), their breeding distribution and migrations
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
CONTENTS    1. Introduction ... 3  2. Bartels collection from Java (GCAJ) ... 4  3. Specimens from Ceylon (GCAJ) ... 6  4. Additional material from the Greater Sunda Islands and from the Philippines ... 7  5. Status in the Indo-Australian region ... 8  6. Status in East Asia ... 15  7. Status in Africa ... 17  8. Western Palaearctic breeding distribution ... 23  9. Geographical variation ... 34  10. Measurements ... 38  11. Breeding season and nuptial plumage ... 41  12. The identity of Sterna javanica Hors field ... 45  13. Nomenclature ... 46  14. The systematic position of Hydrochelidon albostiata Gray ... 49  15. Acknowledgements ... 53  16. References ... 54    I. INTRODUCTION    During the years preceding his sudden death in Januari 1962, my...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Chlidonias hybridus (Pallas); Laridae; Sterninae; Bartels collection; Geographical variation; Measurements; Nomenclature; 42.83.
Ano: 1977
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/323932

An early note on the occurrence of the Magnificent Frigate Bird, Fregata magnificens Mathews, 1914, in the Cape Verde Islands: Columbus as an ornithologist
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hartog, J.C. den.
The importance of ornithological observations with respect to Columbus' discovery of America as recorded in the "Diario del descubrimiento" is recognized. The fact that his first and crucial crossing of the Atlantic coincided with the autumn migration may have contributed to its success. Columbus' log contains the first historical record of the [Magnificent] Frigate Bird, Fregata magnificens Mathews, 1914, in the Cape Verdes, with a surprisingly accurate description of its characteristic habits.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Columbus; "Diario del descubrimiento"; Cape Verde Islands; Phaethon aethereus; Fregata magnificens; First historical record; Piratical behaviour; Autumn bird migration; 42.83.
Ano: 1993
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318022

Preliminary results of an ongoing study of the Nicobar megapode Megapodius nicobariensis Blyth
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Sankaran, R.; Sivakumar, K.
Data collected during an ongoing study on incubation mounds and the social organization of the Nicobar megapode Megapodius nicobariensis Blyth, 1846, are reviewed. Microbial decomposition of organic matter in mounds is likely to be the major source of heat production within incubation mounds of the Nicobar megapode, though a direct relation between the rate of organic activity and the temperature could not be shown. The size of a mound was found to be the most important factor in the stabilization of incubation temperatures at optimal levels. Data on the social organization of the Nicobar megapode are presented. The use of mounds by multiple pairs, territorial behaviour, extrapair copulations and the break-up of pairs are highlighted. The mating system in...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Nicobar megapode; Megapodius nicobariensis; Incubation mounds; Social organization; Pair-bond; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219422

Vogelkundig onderzoek op Nieuw Guinea in 1828 : terugblik op de ornithologische resultaten van de reis van Zr. Ms. Korvet Triton naar de zuid-west kust van Nieuw-Guinea
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
The ornithological results of the journey with the vessel Triton in 1828 are re-assessed.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; New Guinea; Distribution; Triton.; 42.83.
Ano: 1994
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317250

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 19. Type material from Japan in The Natural History Museum, Tring, U.K.
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Morioka, H.; Walters, M.
The Natural History Museum, Tring, holds type material from Japan upon which names were based by Gould, Gurney, Hargitt, Ingram, Mathews, Oates, Seebohm, Sharpe, Swinhoe, Tristram and Vigors. In most cases selected types, which are not necessarily lectotypes, have been listed by Warren (1966) or Warren &amp; Harrison (1971), but we provide here information that has come to light during preparatory work on a list of types of all Japanese taxa. We have located types for a number of taxa for which they had not been identified or segregated, and lectotypes are here designated for three taxa to safeguard current nomenclatural practice.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Japanese taxa; Type-specimens; Lectotypes; Revision; Picidae; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219935

The biology of the malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould in the Little Desert area, Australia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Reichelt, R.C.
Several pairs of malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould, 1840, have been studied intensively in a block of natural mallee habitat. The unique observational situation, the result of years of patient and low-impact interactions between the observer and the birds, has provided detailed information on a normally secretive species. The regular mound construction behaviour is described, as is temperature testing and manipulation, copulation, egg laying and hatching.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Megapodes; Malleefowl; Little Desert; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219423

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 63. The eastern Asiatic races of Sitta europaea Linnaeus, 1758
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Red'kin, Y.; Konovalova, M.
The Asiatic subspecies of Sitta europaea form an independent group of races which differ from the European subspecies by their smaller size and bill shape. Based on substantial samples of most of these taxa the present revision distinguishes 13 recognizable subspecies in the group. We remove from the group the subspecies arctica Buturlin, 1907, which is the most distinctive of all the Asiatic forms, because there is a zone of sympatry between this and S. e. baicalensis Taczanowski, 1882, where hybrid individuals may occur but if so must be extremely rare. We therefore support the elevation of arctica to full species level.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sitta europaea; Subspecies; Asia; Morphological characteristics; Collection specimens; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210078

A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part I)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION Hardly any group of birds is of a greater interest to the zoogeographer and to the student of evolution and speciation than the family of the Zosteropidae. It was with the fact in mind that no conclusions as regards these fields of investigation could be drawn without the reliable base of a good classification that Stresemann (1931) 1) undertook a revision of the IndoAustralian members of the family. Stresemann's revision is a pioneer work that will long remain the base for any further work in the group. Since 1931, however, 45 further names have been given in the Indo-Australian group of the Zosteropidae, adding two valid species and about 25 valid races to the number already known. Though several partial revisions have greatly elucidated...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1957
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317562

Over de op Java levende ondersoorten van Cyanoderma melanothorax (Temm.)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
In 1823 heeft Temminck onder de naam Myiothera melanothorax (Pl. Col., pl. 185) Cyanoderma m. melanothorax voor het eerst voor Java vastgesteld naar aanleiding van in West-Java (zonder nadere plaatsaanduiding) verzameld materiaal. In 1930 (Orn. Monatsber., vol. 38, p. 148/9) noemt Stresemann vijf exemplaren van deze timelia, afkomstig van Goenoeng Gedeh (West-Java) typische vertegenwoordigers van de nominaatvorm. In 1918 werd door Robinson (Journ. Fed. Mal. States Mus., vol. 7, p. 236) de ondersoort intermedia afgesplitst n.a.v. te Sodong Gerok (Idjen Geb., Oost-Java) verzameld materiaal, waarbij volgens Kuroda (Birds of the Island of Java, vol. I, p. 284/5) de volgende diagnose werd gegeven. „Intermediate between Stachyris (= Cyanoderma) m. melanothorax...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319373

An Update on the Avifauna of Gunung Lumut Protection Forest (East Kalimantan) reinforcing the Potential Conservation Value of Hutan adat
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Wielstra, B.; Boorsma, T.; Pieterse, S.M.
We provide results of a second survey of the hutan adat (forest traditionally exploited on a small scale by local people) situated in the Gunung Lumut Protection Forest, East Kalimantan, conducted in 2007 and closely following the first survey in 2005 (Wielstra &amp; Pieterse 2009. Kukila 14: 1-15). An additional 29 species were observed, bringing the total number of species observed in GLPF to 217. These include two globally threatened (Vulnerable) species, 16 “Sundaic Lowland Forest” biomerestricted species and one “Sundaic montane forest” biome-restricted species. We confirmed the presence of over 1% of the biogeographic population of the congregatory waterbird Storm’s Stork Ciconia stormi. The findings provide further support for our previous...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Avifauna; Gunung Lumut Protection Forest; Kalimantan; Conservation value; Hutan adat; Important Bird Area; 42.83.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/431217

Geographical variation of Caprimulgus Macrurus Horsfield (Aves, Caprimulgidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION The races of Caprimulgus macrurus Horsfield have been revised several times, most recently by Oberholser (1915). This work is now over sixty years old and it was exclusively based on the very inadequate material at the time available in North American collections, without any reference to the large series in the museums of London, Tring, Leiden, etc. As a result, much of Oberholser's revision is based on little more than guesswork (cf. Rothschild &amp; Hartert, 1918: 321). Also, Oberholser omitted the races belonging to the "manillensis" group, although several years earlier Hartert (1906) had concluded that they are conspecific with C. macrurus. My own work on the problem of the geographical variation of the species started over twelve years...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1977
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317588

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 60. Remarks on the systematic position of Ficedula elisae (Weigold, 1922)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Töpfer, T.
Elise’s Flycatcher was described as a full species Ficedula elisae (Weigold, 1922a), but in 1937 was made a subspecies of the Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina (Temminck, 1836), and Zheng et al., 2000, mistook its males for an undescribed species which they named “Ficedula beijingnica”. More recently, owing to its phenotypic characteristics and analyses of its bioacoustics, it has been proposed that elisae should be restored to rank as a full species. After re-examining the full range of evidence it is here recommended to continue treating the taxon subspecifically as Ficedula narcissina elisae pending further information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Flycatchers; Ficedula narcissina; Ficedulaelisae; Ficdedula beijingnica; Ficedula zanthopygia; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210054

Systematic and Faunistic remarks on Birds from Borneo and Java, with new records
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
In this paper I have collected notes on a number of birds from Java and Borneo, which have accumulated over the past seven years as a by-product of other studies rather than as a result of directed research in our collections. Ardea cinerea altirostris subspecies nova Diagnosis. — Similar in plumage to the pale race A. c. jouyi Clark of north-east Asia and Japan, but bill more massive: the bill is not always longer, but thicker and especially deeper (see table of measurements, and plate). Holotype, ♂, 12.III. 1918, Sedari, east of Tjitaroem delta, Reg. Krawang, West Java, leg. M. E. G. Bartels no. 11360, RMNH, Aves no. 28454. Distribution. — Java and Sumatra. Birds which have been found breeding on the west coast of Malaya, in Perak and Selangor (cf....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1971
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318399

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 46. ‘A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company’ by Horsfield &amp; Moore
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
Ornithological literature has been extremely inconsistent in assigning authorship for the new names proposed in ‘A Catalogue of the Birds in The Museum of the Hon. East-India Company’ by Horsfield &amp; Moore, or by Moore in parallel to it. The corrected dates of separate publications by Moore and the ICZN Code allow all assignments to be resolved. Hodgson should never be cited for a new name in this work. All but six taxa are attributable to Moore alone, five to Horsfield &amp; Moore and one taxon, Acanthis flavirostris brevirostris although described by Moore, was described by Bonaparte a few months earlier. The contents are set out to show which families were covered by this unfinished work. Evidence is also presented to show that volume 2 appeared as a...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Horsfield; Moore; Hodgson; Types; Authorship; Priority; Dates; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215558

Zur Verbreitung von Phaethornis malaris (Nordmann) (Aves, Trochilidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Obwohl der Kolibri Phaethornis malaris (Nordmann) der Wissenschaft wahrscheinlich schon vor Ausgang des XVIII. Jahrhunderts bekannt war (eine Abbildung findet sich in Audebert &amp; Vieillot, 1802: 37, T. 17) und 1835 die wissenschaftliche Benennung erfolgte (Nordmann, 1835), war er nur aus einem erstaunlich kleinen Gebiet bekannt. In der Küstenzone von Französisch Guayana war er offensichtlich von jeher ziemlich häufig, denn während des vorigen Jahrhunderts fanden viele Bälge (meist ohne genaues Datum und mit sehr allgemein gehaltenen Lokalitätsangaben) ihren Weg in wissenschaftliche Sammlungen und später gingen dem Carnegie Museum nicht weniger als 33 Stücke zu durch den Sammler S. M. Klages. Der Literatur kann entnommen werden, dass P. malaris in...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1977
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318739

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 24. On the priority of the name Hypsipetes Vigors, 1831, and the division of the broad genus of that name
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Gregory, S.M.S.
We conclude that the reasons hitherto given for non-recognition of the generic name Ixos in the family Pycnonotidae were erroneous. The broad genus employed by the proponents of that view is now considered too broad, and we concur with Sibley &amp; Monroe (1990) that several generic names must be used, including Ixos. No genus can be constructed except around the name of its type species, and no other species within such a genus may be the type species of a generic name that is older. The arrangement offered by Sibley &amp; Monroe (1990) was flawed because this rule was not observed. We therefore offer a complete revision. We believe it to be desirable to recognise several more genera than those recognised by Sibley &amp; Monroe (1990), at least until we...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Bulbuls; Pycnonotidae; Hypsipetes; Ixos; Temminck; Type species; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220204

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 5. Types of the Pittidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Violani, C.; Voisin, C.; Voisin, J.-F.
A list of 126 names applied to Asian forms of species of pitta (Family Pittidae) is provided, with information on the whereabouts of type-specimens. Where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Pittidae; Pittas; Types; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219439

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 58. The correct type species of Anthracoceros Reichenbach, 1849.G
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Gregory, S.M.S.
The history of the generic name Anthracoceros is reviewed. It is confirmed that the type species usually cited, Buceros malabaricus Gmelin, 1788, was not the first subsequently included nominal species. It is further shown that neither of the nominal species included in Anthracoceros by Bonaparte in 1854 can be considered as type candidates. This mistaken use of Anthracoceros aside, the type species of Anthracoceros is shown to be Buceros monoceros Shaw, 1811, by subsequent monotypy (Art. 69.3), and the correct citation given.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Nomenclature; Type species; Reichenbach; G.R. Gray; Buceros; Anthracoceros; Malabaricus; Bicolor; Malayanus; Monoceros; Coronatus; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210052

Malurus callainus Gould and other names supposed to have been based on hybrids (Aves, Passeriformes)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Through an apparent misinterpretation of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Schodde &amp; Mason (1998) mistakenly rejected several names, based on intraspecific intergrades and hybrids.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Passeriformes; Nomenclature; Australia; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/216166

Mass mortality of Puffinus Gravis (O'reilly) on the coast of Suriname (Aves, Procellariidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
In July 1974, a seabird was received for identification from Mrs. M. P. Panday of Paramaribo, Suriname. The bird proved to be an immature specimen of the Great Shearwater, Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly), a species not previously recorded from Suriname or the adjacent countries, which explains why Mrs. Panday had been unable to identify it with the literature available to her. Further information received from Mrs. Panday was that she had found the dead bird on the beach of the fauna reserve Bigi-Santi (east of Paramaribo) during a visit made from 13 to 15 June, 1974. There were many dead shearwaters on the beach at the time, but only a few (like the one collected) were fresh, most of the birds found were already entirely desiccated, and would have been dead...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1976
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318481

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 67. Taxonomic identity and lectotype designation of Sitta velata Temminck, 1821
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Quaisser, C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The composite nature of the type series of Sitta velata Temminck, 1821 requires the selection of a lectotype, which will contribute to taxonomic stability. An appropriate specimen (NMW 6379)in Vienna is duly designated.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sittidae; Sitta velata; Sitta frontalis; Sitta corallipes; Lectotype designation; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210088

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 45. Types of the Corvidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Kalyakin, M.; Loskot, V.; Morioka, H.; Violani, C.; Voisin, C.
A list of about 280 names applied to Asian forms of species of crows (family Corvidae) is presented. This list provides information on the whereabouts of type specimens. Where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information. For technical reasons we herein re-restrict the type locality of both Dendrocitta himalayana Jerdon and Dendrocitta himalayensis Blyth.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Corvidae; Crows; Types; Type species; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215557

Analyse von C. J. Temmincks "Catalogue systématique" (1807)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Stresemann, E.
Unter dem Titel „Catalogue systématique du cabinet d'ornithologie et de la collection de quadrumanes de Crd. Jb. Temminck. Avec une courte description des oiseaux non-décrits ... à Amsterdam, chez C. Sepp Jansz. MDCCCVH" gab der bald dreissigjährige C. J. Temminck ein Büchlein heraus, das dem Historiker der Ornithologie manch willkommenen Aufschluss erteilt. Der Autor selber hat in späteren Jahren diese seine erste Veröffentlichung nicht mehr erwähnt. Wegen ihrer Seltenheit ist sie den meisten Ornithologen der Folgezeit unbekannt geblieben, und einzig Hartlaub hat sich der Aufgabe unterzogen sie genauer zu studieren und die vielen neuen Vogelarten zu deuten, die Temminck im Catalogue" zwar sorgfältig beschrieben, aber nur mit französischen Namen belegt...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1953
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319192

The name of the white-eye from Rendova Island (Solomon Islands)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Of the various races of white-eyes that inhabit the central group of the Solomon Islands, the race from the island of Rendova was the first to become known to science. Tristram (1882) recorded this race, which he indentified with Tephras olivaceus Ramsay, described the previous year from the "Solomon Islands", without an exact indication of its type-locality (Ramsay, 1881). Tristram (l.c.) stated that the species was a typical member of the genus Zosterops, and that, consequently, Tephras olivaceus Ramsay became preoccupied by Zosterops olivacea auct. (Certhia olivacea L.) from Réunion. Therefore he proposed the new name Zosterops rendovae, his comment being as follows : "This bird has already been described by Mr. Ramsay ... as Tephras olivaceus, sp. nov....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1955
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318733

Avian biogeography on western Indian Ocean islands: eustatic sea levels, geological events and anthropogenic changes
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hume, J.P.
The south-western Indian Ocean islands, excluding the microcontinent of Madagascar, are geologically complex and diverse. They have been subject to drastic sea level changes, volcanic events and anthropogenic changes, all of which have contributed to confuse understanding of their avian biogeography. An array of factors have affected these avifaunas, based on palaeontological, historical and molecular evidence,which together have shown that avian biogeography is not congruent with the relative age and size of the islands.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Biogeography; Indian Ocean; Palaeoecology; Geology; 42.83; 42.65.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/428484

Neue Subspecies von Vögeln aus Niederländisch-Indien
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Neumann, O.
Porphyrio porphyrio plessenorum nov. subspec. ♂ und ♀ in der Färbung des Gefieders vollkommen mit P. p. indicus L. von Java übereinstimmend, aber durch die Farbe des Schnabels und der Beine unterschieden. Der Schnabel ist mehr rot, so dass bei den meisten Stücken der ganze Schnabel korallrot bis ziegelrot erscheint. Dagegen sind die Beine nie so rein korallrot wie bei P. p. indicus, sondern ziehen mehr oder weniger ins bräunliche. Bei Porphyrio porphyrio indicus L. (jedenfalls bei Exemplaren von Java) ist der First des Schnabels stets schwarz oder schwärzlich, so dass der Schnabel von oben gesehen schwarz erscheint. Auch die Basis des Unterschnabels ist schwarzlich. Dagegen sind die Beine des P. p. indicus (Javastücke) heller und reiner korallrot. Nur die...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1941
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318623

Taxonomic identity and lectotype designation of Falco Reinwardtii Schlegel &amp; Müller, 1841; Buteo capensis Temminck &amp; Schlegel, 1844; Ptilopus humeralis iobiensis Schlegel, 1873 and Hirundo rufula Temminck, 1835
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Quaisser, C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The composite nature of four type series of bird taxa in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis, Leiden requires the selection of lectotypes, which will contribute to taxonomic stability. Appropriate specimens are duly designated: RMNH 87171 for Falco (Lophotes) Reinwardtii Schlegel &amp; Müller, 1841)^RMNH 87194 for Buteo capensis Temminck &amp; Schlegel, 1844^RMNH 87792 for Ptilopus humeralis iobiensis Schlegel, 1873 and RMNH 88907 for Hirundo rufula Temminck, 1835.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Birds; RMNH; Types; Lectotype designation; Falco Reinwardtii; Aviceda subcristata reinwardtii; Buteo capensis; Buteo buteo vulpinus; Ptilopus humeralis iobiensis; Ptilinopus iozonus iobiensis; Hirundo rufula; Cecropis daurica rufula; 42.83.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/273960

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 15. Nomenclatural issues concerning the common sand martin Riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) and the pale sand martin R. diluta (Sharpe &amp; Wyatt, 1893), with a new synonymy
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Loskot, V.M.; Dickinson, E.C.
A female of Riparia diluta in the ZISP collection and collected by Severtsov, which has sometimes been supposed to belong to the type series, is found to be this species but not the same subspecies and only a topotype. We designate a lectotype for R. diluta as Severtsov’s material was composite. Names introduced by Zarudny (1916) are evaluated and the synonymy of these two species is corrected to take into account the findings of both Zarudny and later workers.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Riparia; Sand martin; Types; Synonymy; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219914

Evolution and biogeography of suboscine birds analysed by DNA sequence data – a research program at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Ericson, P.G.P.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Suboscine birds; Evolution; Biogeography; DNA; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210821

Birds from the Lowlands of Southern new Guinea (Merauke and Koembe)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION In the periods January 1959-June 1961 and February-September 1962, a total of about three years, the late Mr. A. Hoogerwerf was attached to the experimental rice farm Koembe near Koerik, not far from the mouth of the Koembe River, southern New Guinea, where he was in charge of investigations concerning crop-damage caused by birds and mammals. The results of his work were published in an important report (Hoogerwerf, 1962), in which it was suggested that certain alterations in the pattern of agricultural activities, like changes in the times of flooding and planting of the fields, could reduce damage by water birds without need to resort to the drastic measures so frequently taken against wildlife when man feels only in the slightest...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1982
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317858

Possible implications of Rabbit Calicivirus Disease for malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould in the north-west of Victoria
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Sandell, P.
Parks Victoria and the Department of Natural Resources &amp; Environment (NRE) are collaborating with agencies from the other States and the Commonwealth of Australia in a national program of detailed monitoring and surveillance of the effects of Rabbit Calicivirus Disease (RCD). A component of the Victorian study involves an investigation of possible changes in fox predation upon malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould, 1840, in the wake of reduced rabbit abundance caused by RCD. The study entails measurement of overall fox activity post-RCD, measurement of egg loss from malleefowl nests, and an assessment of any observable changes in fox diet. Measures of fox abundance/activity pre- and post- RCD suggest that the level of fox activity has not declined...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Malleefowl; Leipoa ocellata; Rabbit Calicivirus Disease; Fox predation; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219424

Phylogenetic relationships of the Megapodiidae as indicated by their ischnoceran, in particular goniodid, chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mey, E.
Inter- and intrafamilial relationships among the Megapodiidae are presented and discussed based on their host-specific chewing louse fauna, in particular the Goniodidae (Ischnocera). Use is made of both empirical evidence and statistical methods. So far, 53 species of chewing lice have been described which are found only on megapodes, a number which is still growing. The relationships among the Goniodidae genera on megapodes have been analysed using Wagner parsimony analysis rooted by character polarity (51 morphological features). Based on their chewing lice, the Megapodiidae seem to be more closely related to the Phasianidae than to the Cracidae. Megapodes share no Ischnocera with the cracids, while they share a single genus Goniocotes Burmeister, 1838...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Ischnoceran chewing lice; Co-speciation; Phylogeny; Interfamilial relationships; Intrafamilial relationships; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219417

Bird records from the Moluccas
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION For the past thirty years I have, from time to time, come across bird material and literature records which have added localities and in a few instances have added new species, to Van Bemmel's (1948) list of birds of the Moluccan Islands and its supplement, published five years later (Van Bemmel &amp; Voous, 1953). I have kept notes of these additions with the vague idea of perhaps, some time in the future, publishing a revised edition of the list of the avifauna of the Moluccas, zoogeographically one of the most interesting regions of the world. The sum total of my notes to date would hardly have justified publication, were it not for the fact that a new list of Moluccan birds was in the course of preparation by the late C. M. N. White, and...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1982
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318998

“Its Gnow or Never”: a case study of community action for malleefowl conservation in the wheatbelt area of Western Australia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dennings, S.
Concern for the decline of the malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould, 1840, in the Gnowangerup Shire, Western Australia, lead to the formation, in August 1992, of the Malleefowl Preservation Group Inc. (MPG) which currently supports a membership in excess of 1500 individuals (January 1998). The group’s activities are carried out on a volunteer basis addressing projects such as annual field surveys and monitoring, community awareness, school education, feral animal eradication programs, reestablishment of native vegetation on farms and wildlife corridors.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Megapodes; Malleefowl; Leipoa ocellata; Community conservation; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219427

Some Remarks concerning subspecies of Ducula aenea from Celebes and surrounding Islands
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
Though Schlegel (1866, p. 200) as well as Hartert (1898, p. 135) pointed out that Carpophaga paulina, described by Bonaparte (1850, p. 35) and now known as Ducula aenea paulina (Bp.), originating from the Sula Archipelago (East of the East Coast of Celebes) seemed not quite similar to birds from Celebes, lack of sufficient material refrained these authors from separating Sula birds. But this was done by Siebers (1929, p. 152/3) who separated them under the name Ducula aenea sulana, on account of their smaller wing measurements and the darker (more chestnut coloured) nuchal patch. The Sula birds should be also smaller than nuchalis from the Philippines and (doubtful) pulchella from Togian 2) which, according to Siebers, should belong to the same...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1950
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319058

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 42. A preliminary review of the Oriolidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
Asian orioles that have been reviewed since Greenway (1962) are discussed and recommendations are made for the recognition of subspecies. Reasons are provided for the split of Oriolus steerii Sharpe, 1877a, from Oriolus xanthonotus Horsfield, 1821, originally proposed in Dickinson et al. (1991) when such reasons were omitted. Problem areas remain and research is suggested, some morphological, some molecular.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Orioles; Figbirds; Oriolidae; Mimicry; Friarbird; Lipochrome; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215554

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 52. An introduction to the bird collections of Brian Houghton Hodgson (1801-1894)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
Hodgson spent most of his career in Nepal and several years of retirement in Darjeeling, making collection in both areas. Dates relating to these periods are clarified and his collections and donations are discussed. His drawings, touched upon briefly, are now receiving further study and will be reported upon in due course.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Biography; Labels; Drawings; Nepal; Darjeeling; Sikkim; Tibet; Edward Blyth; John Edward Gray; George Robert Gray; William Jardine; Hugh Strickland; Zoological Society of London; British Museum; Hon. East-India Company; Asiatic Society of Bengal; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209967

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 44. A preliminary review of the Corvidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Eck, S.; Martens, J.
Certain Asian species of corvids, mainly those that have been reviewed since 1962, are discussed and attention is drawn to recommended changes in subspecific or specific status. Problem areas remain and research is suggested, some morphological, some molecular and some into voice. The rationale behind the ongoing revision of Corvus macrorhynchos is explained, but it is recommended that it be considered hypothetical and further developments awaited so that all relevant taxa can be assigned safely to species.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Magpies; Treepies; Jays; Nutcrackers; Crows; Corvidae; Type locality; Vocalizations; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215556

The avifauna of Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
The avifauna of the island of Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands) is reviewed. Introductory sections, which include a chapter on the history of ornithological discovery, are followed by the main part, a systematic account in which each species and subspecies known from Flores is treated separately. A discussion of the zoogeography, a gazetteer, a list of references and an index complete the volume. At present 214 forms (210 species) are accepted as having been reliably recorded. Of these, ca. 160 are, or may be assumed to be, residents, and of ca. 100 the eggs have been collected and are described. The balance consists of visiting sea and freshwater birds, migrants from the North and migrants from the South. It is likely that few additions remain to be made to...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Indonesia; Flores; Avifauna; Birds; Zoogeography; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209697

Prolegomenon to further studies in the Chrysococcyx 'Malayanus' group (Aves, Cucilidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Parker, S.A.
In its present state, the corpus of knowledge constituting our understanding of the Chrysococcyx 'malayanus' group is too unorganized to be used directly as the foundation for a modern systematic appraisal. A n attempt is here made to rectify this by overhauling the available facts. Stemming from this exercise, a few simple preliminary adjustments to the nomenclature and taxonomy of the group are suggested.  The taxa here recognized are C. minutillus (with subspecies peninsularis subsp. nov., albifrons, cleis subsp. nov., minutillus and barnardi), C. russatus (subspecies aheneus, jungei, misoriensis and russatus), C. rufomerus, C. crassirostris and C. ruficollis. The type description of Cuculus malayanus Raffles, 1822 being recognizable as a femalephase...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Cuculidae; Chrysococcyx 'malayanus'; Taxonomy; Nomenclature; Checklist; 42.83.
Ano: 1981
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/323956

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 13. A preliminary review of the Hirundinidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
Recent taxonomic treatments of Asian taxa of swallows and martins (Hirundinidae) are discussed and recommendations are made for further evaluation or for awareness of competing hypotheses as to treatment.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Swallows; Martins; Hirundinidae; Review; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219912

Scientific results of the Surinam expedition 1948-1949 : Part II. Zoology No. 3. Birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
During the Scientific Surinam Expedition 1948-1949 Mr. P. H. Creutzberg collected only a few specimens of birds, which came in the Leiden Museum. Most of the collected birds belong to species well known from Surinam as Butorides striatus, Piaya cayana, Rhynchocyclus flaviventris. Others like Leucopternis albicollis are not exceptionally rare. One species, however, proved to be new for Surinam. It is of interest to mention it here together with some other species, rarely recorded from Surinam, collected by Mr. W. C. van Heurn in 1911 and by Mr. H. A. Boon in 1901. Leucopternis melanops Lath. A specimen (♀) of the Black-Faced Hawk was collected by Mr. W. C. van Heurn at Guyana Goudplacer on October 9, 1911. Guyana Goudplacer is situated on the railroad about...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1953
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318598

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 56. The authorship and date of Turdus rubrocanus
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Walters, M.
This name from J.E. &amp; G.R. Gray’s 1847 Catalogue of B.H. Hodgson’s materials from Nepal was not based on a description therein, although it is generally cited from there, and correctly so except for the date. It is valid from there only under the little-used Articles 11.6 and 50.7 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (I.C.Z.N., 1999). These rules allow Hodgson’s 1844 nomen nudum to be reintroduced together with an ‘indication’ although still without a description. In exploring the validity of the citation from 1847 we found that over time the rules of nomenclature have changed and that what should not have been acceptable in 1962 and 1964, is now acceptable. We also draw attention to a colour plate that seems likely to have been...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Turdus rubrocanus; Synonym; Nomen nudum; Nomenclature; Dates of publication; Priority; Brian H. Hodgson; John E. Gray and George R. Gray.; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209999

Current studies on megapode phylogeny
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Brom, T.G.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
Hypotheses regarding the phylogenetic relationships between megapodes and other birds are reviewed, and it is concluded that the available evidence supports a sistergroup relationship between megapodes and all other galliforms. Current studies in this direction are discussed. The resolvement of intrafamilial relationships has gained less attention so far and the most probable hypothesis based on traditional characters is presented.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Interfamilial relationships; Intrafamilial relationships.; 42.83.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317817

A digital catalogue of primary type specimens in German ornithological collections - a three year project running within GBIF - Germany - Vertebrata
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Elzen, R. van den; Frahnert, S.; Quaisser, C.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international initiative that aims to enable the worldwide exchange of biodiversity-related data through the internet. Within a three year project funded as a German contribution to GBIF the information about primary types of birds (and other vertebrates) in German collections will be made available through the internet (http://www.gbif.de). This information includes the original description, status (syntypes, holotypes, etc.), current taxonomic classification, collecting data, mode of preparation, current location as well as digital images of type specimens. So far, 900 of the expected 4000 primary type taxa of birds have been investigated and digitised. It is expected that by the end of the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Vertebrate; Type catalogue; Museum data network; Virtual museum; Type history; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210799

The type-locality of Pteronetta hartlaubii (Cassin, 1859) (Aves, Anatidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Currently, the type locality of Pteronetta hartlaubii is considered to be the Camma River, Gabon, but this is an error, and must be Rio Boutry, Gold Coast (now Ghana), where the holotype was obtained by H.S. Pel. In a note, reference is made to a few other specimens obtained by the collectors Pel and Nagtglas which in recent literature have been overlooked.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Anatidae; Pteronetta hartlaubii; Type locality; Gabon; Ghana; West Africa; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220307

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 22. A preliminary review of the Campephagidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The taxonomic treatment of Asian taxa of cuckoo-shrikes and minivets and their allies (Campephagidae) is discussed and recommendations are made for further evaluation or awareness of competing hypotheses as to treatment.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Cuckoo-shrikes; Cicadabirds; Trillers; Minivets; Campephagidae; Review; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220202

Notes on two small collections of Birds from new Guinea
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION Over the past few years the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie has received, from different sources, several small collections of birds from various parts of New Guinea. This is a report on two of these. No ornithologist accompanied the expedition to the Sterren-gebergte (Star Mountains) of 1959, under the leadership of Dr. L. D. Brongersma and Captain (Air) G. F. Venema (Brongersma &amp; Venema, 1960), but the mammal preparator Mr. J. J. Staats obtained a collection of some 120 bird skins. The majority of these are from the highlands in the Sterren-gebergte area, but a few specimens were collected in the lowlands near Hollandia and Tanahmerah. All localities with their approximate altitudes are listed and most of them are shown on the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317856

On some birds observed in the Netherlands
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
Among the birds and the eggs from the Netherlands received by 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie in 1930 there are some ones of special interest, which I mention in the following lines: Daption capense (Linnaeus). Some days ago I received from Mr. J. J. TER PELKWIJK at the Hague the imperfect skull of a petrel, that has been found by Mr. S. BAKKER at the Hague between half August and half September 1930 on the shore of Hoek van Holland north of the Noorderpier. Comparing the skull with skeletons in our collection, I found that it belongs to the Cape Petrel, Daption capense (L.). This is the second time that this species is recorded from the Netherlands, for in the beginning of last century a specimen of the Cape Petrel has been found dead near...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1930
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318873

Type specimens of birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Part 2. Passerines: Eurylaimidae – Eopsaltriidae (Peters’s sequence).
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The type specimens present in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, are listed for the Passerine families Eurylaimidae up to and including the Eopsaltriidae (following the sequence in Peters’s Check-list of the Birds of the World).
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Passerines; Types; Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum; Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie; Bernstein; Bonaparte; Büttikofer; Finsch; Forsten; Hoedt; Junge; Kuhl; Mees; Müller; Pel; Pollen; Schlegel; Schwaner; Temminck; Van Dam; Van Hasselt; Van Oort; Von Rosenberg; Von Siebold; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/214679

Description of a new species of Bush Warbler of the genus Cettia Bonaparte, 1834 (Aves: Sylviidae) from Yamdena, Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Rozendaal, F.G.
The use of mistnets in forest on Yamdena (Tanimbar Islands, South Moluccas, Indonesia) revealed the presence of an undescribed bush-warbler of the genus Cettia Bonaparte, 1834. The new species is described and illustrated here and its morphological characters and vocalizations are compared with those of Asian-Pacific congeners in the subgenus Horeites Hodgson, 1845. It is considered most closely related to the Southwest Pacific warblers previously known as Vitia Ramsay, 1875. In addition, the identity of Cettia bivittata Finsch, 1901, is discussed.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Sylviidae; Genus Cettia; Subgenus Horeites; Systematics; Zoogeography; Tanimbar Islands; South Moluccas; 42.83.
Ano: 1987
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318672

Geographic variation and subspecies of Corvus Enca (Horsfield, 1821)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oortwijn, R.G.M.
In this paper a survey is given of the geographic variation and the subspecies of Corvus enca (Horsfield). For that purpose the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden and the Zoölogisch Museum in Amsterdam were studied and compared with the literature. My examinations resulted in the following division of subspecies: - Corvus enca compilator Richmond: Malaya, Sumatra, Simalur, Nias, Borneo, (Rhio Archipelago). - Corvus enca enca (Horsfield): Java, Bali, Celebes, Sula Islands, (Mentawei Islands). - Corvus enca violaceus Bonaparte: Ceram (and perhaps Buru). - The birds from Mindoro, Samar, Mindanao, Palawan, Balabac and Luzon possibly belong to two or three subspecies. Geographic variation also appears to exist among the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Corvus enca; Geographic variation; Subspecies; 42.83.
Ano: 1987
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318704

Een oude vondst op Java van de Groote Aalscholver (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris territori (Math.) in het museum te Buitenzorg
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
In De Tropische Natuur (jrg. 24, Juni 1935, p. 90/91) maakten wij, bij een goede foto der levende volgels, melding van een groote aalscholver door ons in 1935 waargenomen in de Brantas-delta, die later bleek Phalacrocorax sulcirostris territori te zijn en door ons onder dien naam werd gepubliceerd in Bull. Raffles Museum, no. 12, May 1936, p. 120. „It is most curious' schreven wij „that there was no satisfactory formal record of this bird from Java when it breeds in hundreds in the eastern part of the island.", hetgeen echter niet geheel juist was, want Vorderman noemde deze aalscholver voor Java (Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 60, 1900, p. 99) naar aanleiding van Ogilvie Grant's opgave in Cat. Brit. Museum (vol. 26, p. 376) waar sprake is van een door...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319327

The Micronesian megapode Megapodius laperouse: conservation and research needs
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Stinson, D.W.; Glass, P.O.
Introduction The Micronesian megapode Megapodius laperouse, one of the smallest megapode species, is endemic to the Mariana (M. l. laperouse) and Palau (M. l. senex) Islands in the western Pacific. We outline here the outlook for the species and aspects of their biology that need investigation. A more detailed account of the status and biology of M. l. laperouse in the Marianas is in preparation. Status and distribution The Micronesian megapode in the Marianas is now restricted to the remote volcanic islands north of Saipan, with the exception of a small remnant population on Aguijan and a reintroduced population on Saipan. In historic times, this species was found on the larger coral islands of Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan, but was common only on...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodius laperouse; Status; Incubation-strategies; Conservation.; 42.83.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317892

Birds of the Inyanga National Park, Rhodesia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
In October and November 1964, after attending the Second Pan African Ornithological Congress at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, I spent some six weeks at Rhodes Inyanga Orchards in the Inyanga National Park, Rhodesia, at the kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Payne. During my stay I observed and collected birds in the Park and its immediate surroundings. In this paper the ornithological results of my stay are recorded. A collecting permit had been obtained for me in advance by Mrs. Payne, and by kind permission of the Chief Warden I was allowed to collect in the National Park. Authorities of the Umtali Museum placed a shotgun and dustshot at my disposal. Mrs. Payne was greatly interested in my activities; she also presented to me several bird-skins, including...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1970
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317633

On two species of Centropus from the Kangean islands (Aves, Cuculidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
When collecting on the Kangean Islands in 1954 I obtained representatives of two species of Centropus: C. sinensis, and C. bengalensis. The first of these species was known to occur on the islands, but the second had not previously been recorded from the Kangean Archipelago, and is an interesting addition to its avifauna. The subspecific identity of these birds seemed worth investigating, as the Kangean Islands occupy an interesting position between Celebes and Java, and are known to have a certain degree of endemism. A discussion of both species will here be given. Centropus sinensis (Stephens) Of the six specimens obtained on the three islands Kangean, Saebus and Paliath, four are in the normal plumage, while two are in the plumage of birds described by...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318809

Bibliography of the Megapodiidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The Proceedings of the First International Megapode Symposium (Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden, vol. 278) published in December 1992 included the paper Bibliography of the Megapodiidae with references to literature on megapodes upto 1992 (Dekker &amp; Jones, 1992: 57-78). The bibliography presented here is supplementary as it continues where the previous list ended.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Bibliography; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219430

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 47. Blyth’s ’Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum Asiatic Society’ and his 1849 Supplemental Note, with historical comments
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
Blyth’s Catalogue is sometimes cited from 1849 and sometimes from 1852. Both dates can be found in Peters’s Check-list, each, in different volumes, appearing to be accepted. Consequently and inconsistently both are found in other works. The cover is dated 1849. The evidence, however, shows that while much was printed in 1849 publication was not before September 1852. Meanwhile Blyth’s ’Supplemental Note’ appeared in 1849. Most of the new taxa described in that were described then to ensure that Blyth’s names, already in his proof sheets for his Catalogue, obtained priority. In Peters’s Check-list most of these names have been cited correctly, i.e. from his Supplemental Note. However, a few exceptions need attention and their dates need to be corrected in...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Blyth; Hodgson; Catalogue; Corrections; Dates; Citations; Dumetia; Dinopium benghalense dilutum; Lectotype; Cisticola exilis tytleri; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215559

The identity of Artamus Cinereus Vieillot (Aves, Artamidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Artamus cinereus was described and named by Vieillot in 1817, and for a century that name was universally used for the Australian Black-faced Wood Swallow. Hellmayr (1916) discovered that in the original description the typelocality was given not as Australia, but as Timor. Hellmayr stated that he and Menegaux had vainly searched for Vieillot's type in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, but concluded that, notwithstanding certain discrepancies in the description, the name Artamus cinereus applies to a form from Timor that is closely related to the Australian bird and has been regarded as conspecific with it by most authors since Hellmayr. As a consequence, in subsequent literature, the bird from Timor, which for sixty-six years had been...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1968
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318706

A new subspecies of anthreptes malacensis (Scopoli) from the Soela Islands (Aves, Nectariniidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
For over a century the sunbird Anthreptes malacensis has been known to occur on the Soela Islands where it reaches the eastern limit of its distribution, and when Shelley (1877) named Anthreptes celebensis, now known as Anthreptes malacensis celebensis, he included the Soela Islands in its range. In subsequent years apparently only Hartert (1898) has in the briefest possible way discussed specimens from the Soela Islands, stating that they were: "quite like Celebes specimens". At this the matter has rested with the result that in the latest list (van Bemmel, 1948) the Soela Islands are still included in the range of Anthreptes malacensis celebensis. When Stresemann (1932) restricted, in the Celebes, the range of A. m. celebensis to the southern peninsula,...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1966
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319369

A revision of the Australian Owls (Strigidae and Tytonidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION When in December 1960 the R.A.O.U. Checklist Committee was reorganised and the various tasks in hand were divided over its members, the owls were assigned to the author. While it was first thought that only the Boobook Owl, the systematics of which have been notoriously confused, would need thorough revision and that as regards the other species existing lists, for example Peters (1940), could be followed, it became soon apparent that it was impossible to make a satisfactory list without revision of all species. In this paper the four Australian species of Strigidae are fully revised, over their whole ranges, and the same has been done for Tyto tenebricosa. Of the other three Australian Tytonidae, however, only the Australian races have been...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317721

The National Malleefowl Recovery Plan: a framework for conserving the species across Australia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Benshemesh, J.
The malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Gould, 1840, has declined substantially since European settlement of Australia just over 200 years ago. The species is now vulnerable and is threatened by the loss and degradation of suitable habitat by grazing, fire, and clearing, by the insidious effects of fragmentation of their populations that has resulted from clearing, and by predation by introduced foxes. Accordingly, a National Malleefowl Recovery Plan is being prepared to outline actions that are needed to both secure the species and provide the information necessary for effective management. Conserving malleefowl will require improved management throughout its range and on a diversity of land tenures. Improving habitat quality is crucial and may be achieved by...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Malleefowl; Leipoa ocellata; Conservation; National recovery plan; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219425

New subspecies of birds from New Guinea
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
A full report on the birds collected during the expedition of the "Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap,, to the Wissel Lake district in 1939 will appear in "Nova Guinea". Publication of this report is delayed, however, and therefore short descriptions of the new subspecies, which were found during the work on this collection, are given here. Rallus pectoralis connectens nov. subspec. In the colour of the upper parts connectens agrees with alberti from SE New Guinea, it differs, however, by the paler breast and less blackish abdomen and in the larger size, especially of the bill. The difference with mayri from the Arfak Mountains is, that the upper parts in connectens are more overflown with reddish brown and that, on an average, the latter...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1952
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318288

Description of a new bird from Simalur
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
During my work on Simalur birds (cf. Temminckia, vol. 1, 1936) I compared the specimens of Charadrius peronii from this island with the specimens from Borneo and Semao in our Museum. Though the Simalur birds were darker I did not pay much attention to this fact, as our material from these localities were mounted birds of about a century old and I feared these specimens were so badly faded, that no satisfactory comparison could be made. During his recent stay in the Leiden Museum mr F. N. Chasen noted the same fact and promised to send a good series of fresh skins. I was now able to compare the Simalur specimens with 4 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ from North Borneo; 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ from NE Malay Peninsula; 1 ♂ from the Rhio Archipelago; 1 ♀ from Pulau Tioman, S China Sea. It...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1939
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317956

Aves - vogels
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hustings, F.; Turnhout, C. van.
Tipo: Article in monograph or in proceedings
Palavras-chave: Biodiversiteit; Nederland; Vogels; 42.83.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/407575

The status of two species of migrant swifts in Java and Sumatra (Aves, Apodidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Apus pacificus pacificus (Latham) The occurrence of Apus pacificus in Java, as a migrant from the north, was established by Vorderman (1900), who collected a specimen in 1896: "in de Preanger, bezuiden de Salak". Soon afterwards, the species was also recorded by Bartels (1902, 1906). In later years specimens from Java were generally listed as belonging to the nominate race (Bartels Jr. &amp; Stresemann, 1929; Chasen, 1935; Kuroda, 1936; Hoogerwerf, 1948). Deignan (1956) identified a specimen from the Semangko Pass, Malaya, as belonging to the race Apus pacificus kanoi Yamashina, and subsequently Vaurie (1965: 654, 655) expressed the opinion that birds reported from the southern Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java are "probably" referable to this subspecies,...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1973
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319385

A further contribution to our Oological knowledge of the Island of Java (Indonesia)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hellebrekers, W.Ph.J.; Hoogerwerf, A.
The present authors independently from one another studied oological material from Java. The results of their studies are combined in the present paper. Hellebrekers deals with three collections, held by the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden, brought together (a) by M. E. G. Bartels and his sons (4770 shells), (b) by J. G. Kooiman (280 shells), and (c) by H. J. V. Sody (175 shells). Of these collections those made by Bartels and Sody consist almost exclusively of eggs from West Java, while that made by Kooiman originates from East Java. Hoogerwerf gives details of 1020 shells of his own collection, almost all of which originate from West Java. These were obtained after the appearance in 1949 of a paper in which he published the colour...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1967
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317794

Resultaten van het ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
De waarnemingen van geringde vogels, die mij in het jaar 1930 toegezonden werden, zijn in de hier volgende lijst vermeld. Eenige waarnemingen van vogels, die korten tijd na het ringen op dezelfde plaats teruggevonden werden, zijn niet opgenomen. Aan alle medewerkers aan ons ringonderzoek, zoowel ringers als waarnemers, betuig ik wederom mijn welgemeenden dank. Het aantal der door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden sedert 1911 geringde vogels, zal, dank zij de gewaardeerde medewerking van zoo velen, in dit jaar het cijfer van 100.000 overschrijden. Schollevaar [Phalacrocorax carbo subcormoranus (Brehm)]. Ringnummer 55232, geringd te Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.) 21 Mei 1927 door de Goudsche Ornithologische Club als nestjong; half Augustus 1930...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1931
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318801

Een nieuwe ondersoort van Zosterops montana afkomstig van de Goenoeng Papandajan (West Java)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.; Boer, L.E. de.
In zijn laatste revisie van het genus Zosterops (Journ. für Orn., vol. 87, 1939, p. 156-164) geeft Stresemann o.a. een schematische voorstelling van de horizontale en verticale verspreiding binnen deze Archipel van de vier voornaamste groepen van dit geslacht: montana, atricapilla, palpebrosa en chloris. Tot onze verwondering wordt hierin geen montana-vorm voor WestJava opgegeven, terwijl Siebers toch reeds in 1929 vogels van Goenoeng Tjerimai besprak, en afsplitste onder de naam Zosterops montana sindorensis (Treubia, vol. 11, 1929, p. 151). Deze ondersoort werd zoowel door Chasen (Handlist of Malaysian Birds, 1935, p. 266) als door Kuroda (Birds of the Island of Java, vol. 1, 1933, p. 127) geaccepteerd. De beide auteurs van „De vogels van het...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318453

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 2. A preliminary review of the Eurylaimidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Dickinson, E.C.
Recent taxonomic treatments of Asian taxa of broadbills (Eurylaimidae) are discussed and recommendations are made for further evaluation or for awareness of competing hypotheses as to treatment.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Broadbills; Eurylaimidae; Review; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219436

Molecular phylogeny of the hawk-eagles (genus Spizaetus)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Gamauf, A.; Gjershaug, J.O.; Kvaløy, K.; Røv, N.; Haring, E.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Molecular phylogeny; Hawk eagles; Genus Spizaetus; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210823

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 35. Types of the Aegithinidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Voisin, C.; Voisin, J.-F.
A list of about 35 names applied to species of iora (family Aegithinidae) is presented. This list also provides information on the whereabouts of a type. Where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aegithinidae; Iora; Types; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220219

On adaptive radiation in gulls (tribe Larini)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Tinbergen, N.
In 1930 Professor Boschma, then Head of the Leiden Department of Zoology, generously allowed one of his undergraduates to spend an entire spring away from the laboratory, observing the love rituals of Terns. He even accepted the rather incoherent account this young man wrote of his observations as part of the work to be submitted for his "doctoraal" examination. I very much doubt if at that time he expected his pupil ever to develop an interest in taxonomy and systematics. I hope that this paper will show that one should never give up hope. Even though I cannot claim to have become a taxonomist, some of the results of our comparative studies of gull behaviour begin to have a bearing on classification, and beyond that on its evolutionary interpretation....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317905

An evolutionary approach to megapode mating systems
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Jones, D.N.
An evolutionary understanding of the complex mating systems of megapodes has been impaired by a historical and simplistic classification system that assumed all species to be monogamous. This approach has been challenged by behavioural ecology theories that emphasize the primacy of the individual attempt to maximize its own fitness. From this point of view the remarkable incubation techniques and the recently described behaviours of some clearly promiscuous species can be more clearly understood. In particular, the influence of the type of incubation-heat source on the mating system is paramount.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Mating systems; Monogamy; Promiscuity.; 42.83.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317668

A record of a red-footed Booby Sula Sula (L.) from the Cape Verde Islands, with a review of the status of this species in the South Atlantic Ocean
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hartog, J.C. den.
The first Western Palearctic record of a Red-footed Booby Sula sula (L., 1766), a brown whitetailed morph observed on Cima (Cape Verde Islands), is described. The status of this species in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean is evaluated. At present, Fernando de Noronha is the only South Atlantic stronghold of the species (ca. 4000 individuals; cf. Oren, 1984). The species has disappeared, or almost so, from other islands (St. Helena: absent; Ascension:0-30 individuals; Ilha da Trindade: less than 100 pairs). A link may exist between the apparent recent increase of the population of Fernando de Noronha and the apparent recent decline of the Trindade population. It seems possible that the Trindade population for some unknown reason has migrated to Fernando de...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sula sula; Cape Verde Islands; South Atlantic Islands; Status; 42.83.
Ano: 1987
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318544

Extinct and endangered bird collections: managing the risk
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Cooper, J.H.; Adams, M.P.
Approaches to managing the collection of extinct and endangered birds at The Natural History Museum, Tring, U.K., are discussed, in particular practices relating to storage, access, loans, and acquisition of new material.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Extinct; Endangered; Bird specimens; Collections management; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210812

Four new subspecies of birds from the Moluccas and New Guinea
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Routine examination of the bird collections of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie reveals, from time to time, the presence of unnamed subspecies. Four of these, from the Moluccas and from New Guinea, are described here. I am well aware that the detached description of some new subspecies is not a very valuable contribution to systematic ornithology, and usually try to incorporate descriptions in larger papers and revisions. The subspecies concerned belong, however, to species that are well-known or have been revised recently, so that little would be gained by postponing their descriptions. I am indebted to Dr. Dean Amadon for the loan of material of Ailurơedus buccoides stonii from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318365

Charles Darwin’s lost Cinereous Harrier found in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Grouw, H. van; Steinheimer, F.D.
During reorganisation of the Leiden bird collection a mounted harrier was found what seemed to be one of the still lost specimens collected by Darwin. After closer research it turned out it was indeed the last missing harrier of the Darwin collection.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Darwin; Cinereous Harrier; Circus cinereus; Gustav Adolph Frank; 42.01; 42.83.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/292116

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 57.The authorship of the generic name Gymnoris
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Gregory, S.M.S.
The currently accepted citation for Gymnoris: J.E. Gray, 1831, is shown to be fundamentally erroneous. The first valid citation is that of Blyth in 1845. However the nominal type species’ name is preoccupied, and the nomen novum of Fringilla xanthocollis E. Burton, 1838, should be associated with it. The correct citation is given in full.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Synomenclature; Author; J.E. Gray; Hodgson; Blyth; Gymnoris; Flavirostris; Flavicollis; Xanthocollis; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210000

Taxonomic identity of Trochilus verticalis Deppe, 1830
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Quaisser, C.; Weller, A.-A.
The type series of Trochilus verticalis Deppe, 1830, deposited in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB) and the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NMW), consists of five specimens of different taxa and one specimen with aberrant characters. However, the original description of verticalis refers to Agyrtria cyanocephala (Lesson, 1829), to which only the two NMW specimens clearly correspond. Therefore NMW 2.670 (male, Perote) is designated as lectotype of Trochilus verticalis Deppe, 1830.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Trochilidae; Trochilus verticalis; Agyrtria cyanocephala; Agyrtria violiceps; Lectotype designation; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210815

The mystery of the Gouldian birds: an ornithological detective story
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Güntert, M.; Steinheimer, F.D.; Gessner, S.
While compiling a computer database of the avian specimens of the E.A. Goeldi collection a considerable number of skins with original labels from John Gould were discovered. In an earlier inventory they had been registered as part of the Goeldi collection, but as there was no apparent connection with Goeldi, these skins were assumed to be part of an acquisition of birds from John Gould mentioned in the Natural History Museum Bern (NMBE) committee minutes of 1862 (Güntert et al., 1993). Subsequent investigation, however, revealed that these hummingbirds and other specimens were indeed given by the BMNH to Goeldi at the Museu Paraense in Brazil in September 1895, shortly after Goeldi had been appointed director of this institution. In addition, the proper...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: John Gould; Emil August Goeldi; Robert James Shuttleworth; Historical bird collections; Natural History Museum Bern; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210797

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 28. Taxonomic comments on some south and south-east Asian members of the family Nectariniidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mann, C.F.
Certain taxonomic changes made by Cheke &amp; Mann (2001) are here explained and justified. Dicaeum haematostictum Sharpe, 1876, is split from D. australe (Hermann, 1783). D. aeruginosum Bourns &amp; Worcester, 1894 is merged into D. agile (Tickell, 1833). The genus Chalcoparia Cabanis, 1851, is re-established for (Motacilla) singalensis Gmelin, 1788. The taxon Leptocoma sperata marinduquensis (duPont, 1971), is shown to be based on a specimen of Aethopyga siparaja magnifica Sharpe, 1876. Aethopyga vigorsii (Sykes, 1832) is split from A. siparaja (Raffles, 1822). Cheke &amp; Mann (op. cit.) mistakenly omitted two forms, Anthreptes malacensis erixanthus Oberholser, 1932 and Arachnothera longirostra zarhina Oberholser, 1912. Five subspecies are removed from...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Asia; Nectariniidae; Taxonomy; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220208

Verspreiding en getalssterkte van de witwangstern, Chlidonias hybridus (Pallas), in Europa en Noord-Afrika
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INHOUD Inleiding.................... 4 Zuidwest- en West-Europa............... 6 Portugal................... 6 Spanje.................... 6 Frankrijk................... 10 Nederland en België................ 15 Duitsland................... 19 Zwitserland.................. 19 Oostenrijk................... 20 Italië.................... 20 Oostelijk Midden-Europa en de Balkan............ 21 Tsjechoslowakije................ 21 Polen.................... 21 Hongarije................... 22 Joegoslavië................... 23 Roemenië................... 24 Bulgarije................... 27 Albanië................... 28 Griekenland.................. 28 Europees Turkije................. 29 De Sowjet-Unie.................. 29 Litauen.................... 29...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1979
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317278

On the early editions of Lacepède's "Tableaux des Mammifères et des Oiseaux", with remarks on two hitherto overlooked species: Lori bengalensis Lacepède, 1800, and Ornithorynchus novae Hollandiae Lacepède, 1800
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Husson, A.M.; Holthuis, L.B.
Sherborn (1899) very ably discussed the four editions of Lacepède's "Tableaux des Mammifères et des Oiseaux" that were known to him, and made the complicated history of these publications clear. To these four editions we now can add two that evidently were not known to Sherborn, one of which must be exceedingly rare. In the following lines the six editions are discussed in chronological order; editions I, III, IV, and V have been dealt with by Sherborn, II and VI are those that we recently became acquainted with. Edition I (published between January 1 and September 22, 1799). The original "Tableaux" were published in Lacepède's "Discours d'ouverture et de clôture du cours d'histoire naturelle Donné dans le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, l'an VII de...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83; 42.84.
Ano: 1953
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318622

Fossil birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia: composition, development and scientific value
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Boev, Z.N.
A review of the fossil and subfossil avian record kept in Bulgaria is presented. The only collection of fossil birds in Bulgaria was established in the 1980s. 99.6% originates from 98 localities throughout Bulgaria. Foreign fossils originate from Azerbaijan, Greece, Hungary, Namibia and New Zealand. Bulgarian avian fossil and subfossil records in collections outside the country are found in museums in France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. In August 2003 the collection numbered 13,848 bones, two casts and one eggshell representing 349 taxa. Taxonomic composition includes: 22 fossil species, one fossil subspecies, one subfossil species, one subfossil subspecies and at least 160 recent species. This collection became the largest avian...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Avian collections; Fossil birds; Neogene-Quaternary birds; Balkan fossil record; Bulgaria; Paleornithology; 42.83; 38.22.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210794

Resultaten van het ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
In vervolg op de verslagen van het ringonderzoek van 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, die ik voorheen publiceerde in het tijdschrift „Ardea" der Nederlandsche Ornithologische Vereeniging en waarvan het laatste (XIV) verscheen in jaargang XII, 1923, p. 8, geef ik in de hiervolgende bladzijden een lijst van berichten van waarneming van geringde vogels, die mij tusschen 1 Januari 1923 en 31 December 1925 werden toegezonden. Ook in den loop van deze jaren zijn weder belangrijke gegevens verkregen, zoowel omtrent het overwinteringsgebied en het trekken en zich verplaatsen in het algemeen van sommige vogelsoorten als omtrent den ouderdom van eenige individuën. Het is mij een aangename plicht hierbij mijn welgemeenden dank aan alle medewerkers aan ons...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1926
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318955

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 36. A preliminary review of the Chloropseidae and Irenidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Wells, D.R.; Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
Hypotheses of family phylogeny are summarized up to date, and amendments made to the treatment by Delacour (1960) of Chloropsis and Irena in Peters’s Check-list of Birds of the World (Mayr &amp; Greenway, 1960), at and below species level. Revision of species-limits within C. cochinchinensis (Gmelin, 1789) and C. aurifrons (Temminck, 1829) as defined in Delacour (1960) restores three ultra-taxa to species rank, boosting the global list of leafbird species to 11. Certain range and nomenclatural issues are resolved, including re-designation of the type locality of Turdus cochinchinensis, type species of Chloropsis. A new subspecies name is introduced as an outcome.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Leafbirds; Chloropseidae; Fairy-bluebirds; Irenidae; Aegithina; Iora; Species-limits; New subspecies; Nomenclature; Systematics; Type locality; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220220

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 27. On the dates of publication of John Gould’s “A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains”
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: McAllen, I.A.W.; Bruce, M.D.
John Gould’s “A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains” (1830-1833), one of the first works to illustrate birds from the Indian subcontinent, has had a confused publication history. New information in Gould’s correspondence and contemporary reviews has enabled the timing of publication of the separate parts to be determined. Gould’s work was intended to illustrate new birds described in a series of six papers by Nicholas Vigors in the “Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London” (1831-1832). Although Vigors’s papers are usually accepted as the source of the 73 new names, 26 were first published in Gould’s work.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Gould; Vigors; Nomenclature; Priority; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220207

Resultaten van het Ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
De berichten omtrent waarneming van geringde vogels gedurende het jaar 1931 bij 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie ingekomen zijn in de hierna volgende lijst vermeld. Zonder de zoo gewaardeerde hulp van talrijke medewerkers, waardoor niet alleen bet aantal der geringde voorwerpen, maar ook het aantal der geringde vogelsoorten, steeds grooter wordt, zouden de resultaten niet den omvang en het belang hebben, waardoor zij zich thans kenmerken. Aan alle medewerkers aan het ringonderzoek, zoowel ringers als berichtgevers, betuig ik wederom mijn welgemeenden dank en ik spreek hier de hoop uit, dat zij ook in de toekomst aan het ringonderzoek hunne medewerking zullen blijven verleenen. Schollevaar [Phalacrocarax carbo subcormoranus (Brehm)]. Ringnummer...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1932
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318884

Views from the other side of the bird: users’ perspectives on bird collections
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Chilton, G.; Fuller, E.
Bird collections are an increasingly valuable resource for the scientific and artistic communities. A number of recommendations are made which should facilitate legitimate use of bird collections, and help to justify the continued support of these collections.  1. If staffing limitations hinder the legitimate use of an institution’s collections, this situation should be used as justification for better funding.  2. Online catalogues have a valuable but limited role in facilitating research; directors of institutions must be made aware that such catalogues do not diminish the role of the curatorial staff.  3. All stakeholders must accept their responsibility to prevent further marginalization of museum collections.  4. In many cases the value of having rare...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Museum collections; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210813

Wood owls of the genera Strix and Ciccaba
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Voous, K.H.
"... speaking here as a taxonomist to taxonomists, I am certainly no less than respectful toward the noble art of classification" (Léon Croizat, 1958, p. 119). In considering a thorough systematic study a necessity before entering into zoogeographical theories, the author feels he may expect the full and sympathetic approval of Professor H. Boschma, to whom this paper is dedicated. Indeed, taxonomy or systematic zoology is one of the corner-stones of a sound building of zoogeography. The present paper, therefore, dealing with the taxonomy of wood owls and subsequent zoogeographical inferences probably is in line with the way of thinking of Boschma as a systematist. The author will add a further perspective of systematic zoology by proposing a way leading...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318252

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 40. The authorship of the new bird names proposed in the ‘Memoir of the Life of Raffles’ by his widow, Lady Sophia Raffles (1830)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Bruce, M.D.
When Lady Sophia Raffles published her biography of her late husband, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, in 1830, she included a catalogue of zoological specimens based on the collections brought back by Raffles from Java and Sumatra. However, the catalogue was included without indication of its authorship. In the case of the birds, it has been attributed to either Vigors alone or Vigors &amp; Horsfield. For about a century names were credited to Vigors alone but this was changed to Vigors &amp; Horsfield. Here reasons are given to revert to Vigors alone. Nine new names were introduced in the catalogue; four are in current use.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Raffles; Vigors; Horsfield; Sumatra; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220224

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 25. A preliminary review of the Pycnonotidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
The taxonomic treatment of Asian taxa of bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) is discussed with explanations of some historical changes. Attention is drawn to competing hypotheses as to treatment and recommendations are made for their further evaluation. The type locality of Ixos plumigerus Lafresnaye, 1840, is restricted.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Bulbuls; Pycnonotidae; Review; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220205

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 14. Types of the Hirundinidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Kalyakin, M.; Loskot, V.; Morioka, H.; Violani, C.; Voisin, C.
A list of the 110 names applied to Asian forms of species of swallows and martins (family Hirundinidae) is provided. This list provides information on the whereabouts of a type; where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Hirundinidae; Swallows; Martins; Types; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219913

Visual recognition of predators by hatchlings of the Australian brush-turkey Alectura lathami J.E. Gray
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Wong, S.
The megapode hatchling receives no care or guidance from its parents and so must be able to survive by itself. This raises some basic questions about the innate abilities of megapode hatchlings, including the possibility of predator recognition. Experiments were conducted to investigate the visual predator recognition abilities of the hatchlings of the Australian brush-turkey Alectura lathami J.E. Gray, 1831. Two separate methods involving video images and actual stimuli were used. There were no significant differences between the behaviours observed before compared to after the presentation of each stimulus, whether it was predator or non-predator, moving or non-moving. The hatchlings did not respond with any escape or avoidance behaviours when presented...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Megapode; Australian brush-turkey; Alectura lathami; Predator recognition; Anti-predator behaviour; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219421

Über Vögel, gesammelt von Dr. F. Kopstein auf den Süd-Molukken und Tenimber 1922 - 1924
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Stresemann, E.
Das Leidener Museum empfing von dem als Herpetologen bekannten Arzt Dr. med. F. Kopstein eine Sammlung von 440 Vogelbälgen, die dieser während seiner Stationierung in der Residentschaft Amboina gesammelt hatte, und zwar grösstenteils auf Ambon (Amboina) selbst, zum geringen Teil auf den benachbarten „Uliasern" (Haruku, Saparua, Nusa laut), auf Seran, Buru, Sula Besi, Tenimber und auf den Inseln des Damar-Archipels Teun und Nila. Mit Ausnahme der letztgenannten Inseln handelt es sich um Gebiete, die heute als so gut durchforscht gelten dürfen, dass nur der Spezialist dort noch lohnende Ausbeute machen kann, und es ist darum nicht zu verwundern, dass die Sammlung des Herrn Dr. Kopstein nur wenig zur Mehrung unseres zoogeographischen Wissens beiträgt. Ich...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1934
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318740

The megapode action plan 1995 - 1999 halfway down the road
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.
Megapodes: an action plan for their conservation 1995 - 1999, a collaborative effort of members of the Megapode Specialist Group and the World Pheasant Association, was published in 1995. It summarizes the conservation status of all megapode taxa and indicates the needs of those species under threat. The Action Plan was intended to be a stimulus for conservation orientated studies and to generate funds more easily.   An overview is given of studies (1990 - present) in which these threatened taxa were involved. The status of these and other taxa are reassessed according to the finalized IUCN threat categories (which supercede the Mace-Lande threat categories originally used in the Action Plan) as a preparation for the megapode action plan 2000 - 2004.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Megapodes; Action plan; Conservation; Current projects; IUCN threat categories; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219428

A study of stomach contents of Cory's shearwater, Calonectris diomedea borealis (Cory, 1881) (Aves: Procellariidae), from the Macaronesian Islands
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hartog, J.C. den; Clarke, M.R.
Data are presented on the diet of Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea borealis (Cory, 1881) resulting from stomach investigations based on 18 birds from Hierro (Canary Islands), 5 from Selvagem Grande (Selvagens or Salvage Islands), 2 from São Miguel and 1 from São Jorge (Azores), collected between 1977 and 1981. These data confirm the general idea that this shearwater feeds principally on fish and squid. The glandular stomachs of 9 birds from Hierro contained significant quantities of food, varying in wet weight from ca. 4-40 gm; in four cases more or less complete squids were present, all Ommastrephes bartrami (Le Sueur, 1821). In addition, the gizzards of all 26 birds, except one, contained fragments of squid beaks belonging to 12 species. Several of...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Procellariidae; Calonectris diomedea borealis (Cory; 1881); Diet; Stomach contents; Cephalopoda; SE North Atlantic; Macaronesia; 42.83.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318278

Is Zosterops javanica elongata inderdaad goed onderscheidbaar van Zosterops javanica frontalis?
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
In 1913 (Nov. Zool., vol. XX, p. 366) beschreef Stresemann naar aanleiding van op Bali verzameld materiaal (2 ♂♂ en 2 ♀♀) een nieuwe ondersoort van Zosterops javanica, door hem elongata genoemd, op grond van een langere snavel. Stresemann publiceerde de volgende diagnose: „In der Färbung stimmen die Balivögel vollkommen mit O. j. frontalis (Rchb.) überein; sie unterscheiden sich jedoch durch auffallend längere Schnäbel." Zosterops javanica frontalis werd reeds in 1852 afgesplitst door Reichenbach (Handb. der Orn., Meropinae, p. 94, pl. 463), terwijl de nominaatvorm in 1821 (Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. XIII, p. 156) door Horsfield werd beschreven. Als verspreidingsgebied van deze laatste wordt genoemd (Chasen's Handlist of Mal. Birds) Midden-Java,...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317899

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 59. Taxonomy as tar-baby: the type locality and nomenclature of the Mindanao Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba crinigera (Pucheran, 1853)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Collar, N.J.
The type specimen of the Mindanao Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba crinigera was acquired on Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, southern Philippines, but a presumption of biogeographic improbability led to the type locality being “corrected” to Mindanao. Birds from Basilan, geographically interposed between Mindanao and Jolo, have been separated as G. c. bartletti chiefly for their smaller size, but comparison with the type of crinigera is impossible owing to the latter’s lack of outer primaries and tail; in any case bartletti and Mindanao crinigera overlap strongly in size and differ in no diagnostic plumage feature so that bartletti is probably invalid. Given that a Gallicolumba was seen in the wild on Jolo in the nineteenth century, at least five slightly...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Gallicolumba crinigera; G. c. bartletti; Jolo; Type locality; Synonymy; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210053

Some data on the avifauna of the Island of Roti, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Verheijen, J.A.J.
INTRODUCTION For several years I had been looking for an opportunity to visit the island of Roti (Rotti, Roté, Loté). Junge (1954) mentions that only once an ornithological collection was made in the island, namely by Dr. H. F. C. ten Kate, an ethnologist who visited the island in 1891. Büttikofer (1892) listed five species (six specimens) collected by him. By abbreviating my leave in Holland, it became possible to carry out my plan. My diligent helpers were Mr. L. Anggas and Mr. S. Li Djelanu. On 21 February, 1969, we left Ruteng in West Flores and after a long journey we reached the small harbour of Namo-Dalé on the north-coast of Roti on 12 March. With the kind help of Mr. Ir. Matheos Meroukh I had obtained permission to collect a limited number of...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1976
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319049

A list of the birds recorded from Bangka Island, Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
An enumeration of bird specimens from Bangka present in museum-collections, has resulted in a faunal list of 172 species (176 forms). A discussion is given of the zoogeography of the island, the avifauna of which is mainly Sumatran in its affinities, but with a distinct Bornean influence. In contradistinction to a previously-published opinion (de Schauensee, 1958), there is no recognizable Javanese element in the avifauna.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Birds; List; Bangka; Indonesia.; 42.83.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317664

Supplementary notes on the avifauna of Misool
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION Since the publication of my paper on the avifauna of Misool (Mees, 1965), no ornithological work has been done on the island, but a record of one additional species has come to my notice. This raises the number of species now known from the island to 166 (168 forms). The previous paper contained an enumeration of material in our collection; in subsequent years I have found a few more specimens and although these do not add anything of significance to the knowledge of the avifauna of Misool, they will be listed here for the sake of completeness. The Zoölogisch Museum, Amsterdam, possesses a few bird skins from Misool and these have also been included. Some of the skins of the Zoölogisch Museum bear no data other than the name of the island;...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1980
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319037

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 55. A re-examination of the date of publication of Jerdon’s Second Supplement to the Catalogue of the Birds of southern India
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Gregory, S.M.S.
Because Jerdon’s Second Supplement, published in 1845, reflects an exchange of information with Edward Blyth, the date of issue requires interpretation to position it in relation to several papers that year by Blyth. The evidence suggests that we should accept that it appeared soon after 9th August 1845. The only names potentially affected by this resolution are the generic name Phragamaticola the establishment of which is reviewed, and Phragamaticola olivacea ‘Blyth’ Jerdon, which is in synonymy.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: History; Priority; Thomas Jerdon; Edward Blyth; Phragamaticola; Arundinax; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209998

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 18. Some nomenclatural issues relating to Japanese taxa described in the Planches Coloriées (1820-1839) and Fauna Japonica, Aves (1844-1850)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Dickinson, E.C.; Morioka, H.
The application and dating of names of several Japanese taxa collected by von Siebold and described by Temminck or by Temminck &amp; Schlegel are explored, and decisions on nomenclature, and on lectotype  selection, are explained.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Japanese taxa; Type-specimens; Temminck; Von Siebold; Lectotype selection; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219934

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 7. Black-naped oriole Oriolus chinensis Linnaeus, 1766: some old nomenclatural issues explained
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
Any exploration of the development of our knowledge of the distribution and nomenclature of the black-naped oriole produces a bewildering complex of names. It is the more complex because the origin of the specimen named Oriolus chinensis Linnaeus, 1766, was disputed. When it was proposed that the origin might be the Philippines this at first seemed to affect the nomenclature in India but not China. A new name then introduced proved to be preoccupied by one that rested on a description that seemed too flawed to be applicable. When it was finally determined that the Chinese breeding population needed a new name, and that this was the form that reached eastern parts of India as a migrant, the name changes proposed met such resistance that for nearly 60 years...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Oriolus chinensis; Black-naped oriole; Nomenclature; Brisson; Buffon; Jerdon; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219441

The White-eyes of the Aroe Islands (Aves, Zosteropidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
From the Aroe Islands, four different species of White-eyes were recorded with more or less certainty in literature (Salvadori, 1881; Finsch, 1901; Stresemann, 1931). Mayr (1941), the latest revisor, lists three species, viz., Zosterops novaeguineae subsp., Z. minor sharpei, and Z. chloris chloris (now named Z. lutca chloris, cf. Mayr, 1944). The presence in the Leiden Museum of a small series (6 specimens) of Z. novaeguineae from the Aroe Islands, and of the type specimen of Z. sharpei, enables me to discuss these forms more fully than hitherto has been possible. Zosterops novaeguineae Salvadori As at Leiden no material for comparison was available, I sent 5 specimens from the Aroe Islands to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where Dr....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1953
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318540

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 10. The “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées” of Temminck &amp; Laugier (1820-1839): the little known impression of 1850
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Sayako, N.; Dickinson, E.C.
A copy of the reported 1850 impression of the “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées” that has recently come to light suggests that bound copies would be virtually indistinguishable from the first edition (1820-1839) despite the different publisher. In spite of clear statements by the publisher, we believe there must be doubts whether any part of such an edition, other than the wrappers, was specially reprinted. The wrappers found with this copy confirm that during the appearance of the first edition generic wrappers were created, which did not have details of the contents on the back.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Temminck; Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées; Baillière; Edition; Wrappers; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219907

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 49. A preliminary review of the Aegithalidae, Remizidae and Paridae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Eck, S.; Martens, J.
Proposed recent taxonomic changes in Paridae, Aegithalidae, and Remizidae are reviewed within the geographic scope of this series and their reliability is discussed in terms of the Biological Species Concept with respect to secondary contacts, hybridization, introgression, bioacoustics, and molecular genetics. Certain previously unpublished data are added to support the taxonomic decisions.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Paridae; Aegithalidae; Remizidae; Species limits; Systematics; Taxonomy; Eastern Palaearctic region; Indo-Malayan region; Morphology; Bioacoustics; Molecular genetics; Secondary contacts; Hybridisation; Introgression; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209958

An attempt at a natural classification of certain Zosteropidae of the Indo-australian Archipelago
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
The family of the Zosteropidae encloses, besides the very large and uniform genus Zosterops, a number of aberrant forms, especially in the East Indian Archipelago, that, though doubtless closely related to Zosterops, are too distinct to be united with this genus without objection. Several authors have engaged themselves with the problem of the classification of these forms, without arriving at a definite conclusion (cf. Hartert, 1897, Lophozosterops; Stresemann, 1940, p. 66, Pseudo zosterops). The inclusion of many of these forms in the genus Zosterops, as propagated by Hartert, and by Chasen (1935), is no final solution either, and later workers, such as Delacour &amp; Mayr (1946), Delacour (1946), and Voous (1948), investigators who are certainly not in...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1953
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319081

Further notes on the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hellebrekers, W.Ph.J.
In a previous paper (Hellebrekers, 1942) I stated my intention to give some more details on imperfectly known eggs, based on material of the collection of the Penard's. The description of these hitherto imperfectly known or incorrectly described eggs will be strongly aided by the coloured plate accompanying the present paper, this plate represents a number of eggs of four species of birds from Surinam, of each species such eggs are figured as to show the variation in shape and colour. Moreover I have the opportunity to give a number of corrections concerning some of the data given in my previous paper. When the latter appeared I sent a copy to Mr. M. Schönwetter, one of the foremost living authorities in oölogy, asking him for a critical comment on my...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1945
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318793

Geographical variation in Bubo sumatranus (Raffles) (Aves, Strigidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
In recent literature (Chasen, 1935; Peters, 1940; Delacour, 1947; Smythies, 1957) two races of Bubo sumatranus are recognized : B. s. sumatranus (Raffles) from Sumatra, Bangka, and the Malay Peninsula, and B. s. strepitans (Temminck) from Java and Borneo. From the zoogeographical point of view a distribution as indicated above is unexpected, as generally speaking the faunas of Sumatra and Borneo are very similar, while that of Java is more distinct from either. The suspicion that the current classification might be erroneous induced me to examine the material of the species available in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, with a result that is presented here. Plumage characters and measurements given are of adult specimens only; juveniles, which can...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1964
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318191

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 32. The type locality of Hirundo daurica Laxmann, 1769
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Ericson, P.G.P.
The restricted type locality suggested by Brooke (1974) for Hirundo daurica Laxmann, 1769 was apparently made without a translation of the original Swedish description. With this in hand we find it necessary to correct that restriction and move the type locality some 2500 km west.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Hirundo daurica; Type locality; Correction; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220212

On some birds from southern Mexico
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
In the years 1962/64 our museum purchased from Mr. Otto Epping, now of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., a collection of 700 bird-specimens from southern Mexico (mainly from Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, a few specimens from Puebla). As our museum was poorly provided with material from Mexico, this was a very welcome addition to our collections. Mexico being now ornithologically well-known, there would be little point in giving a complete list of the species received, but there are a few rare and little-known species included and some others are of faunistic interest as they extend the ranges as hitherto known of the species or subspecies they belong to. In the present paper, the species which for the reasons given above appear to be of interest are listed, and when the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1970
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319026

Zoological results of the Dutch New Guinea expedition, 1939. No. 51) The Birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
The present paper is the report on a collection of birds brought together during the expedition of the "Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap" to the Wissel Lake area in 1939. The zoologist of this expedition Prof. Dr. H. Boschma collected with the assistance of two mantris of the Buitenzorg Museum in this district from mid-August till mid-November, whilst also some collecting work was done at the Etna Bay. Of great importance was the help of the natives, who brought many birds that otherwise would have been difficult to obtain. Included in this report is a small collection made by Mr. J. P. K. van Eechoud in the same district in 1938. For permission to include it here I am indebted to the authorities of the Buitenzorg Museum. Though birds...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1953
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317787

Over het verschil tusschen Pitta guajana guajana en Pitta guajana affinis
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
In 1776 beschreef P. L. S. Müller (Syst. Nat. Suppl., p. 145) naar aanleiding van in Oost-Java verzameld materiaal de nominaatvorm dezer pitta onder de naam Turdus guajanus, terwijl de in West-Java levende ondersoort affinis als Myiothera affinis in 1821 door Horsfield (Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 154) werd beschreven op grond van in Bantam verkregen materiaal. In Cat. Birds Brit: Museum (vol. XIV, 1888, p. 445/6) vatte Sclater deze beide soorten samen onder de naam Eucichla cyanura. Robinson &amp; Kloss (Treubia, vol. V, 1924, p. 279) noemden de OostJava vogels Eucichla c. cyanura en die van het Westen Eucichla cyanura affinis, welke naam ook door Bartels &amp; Stresemann (1929) werd gebezigd. Later toonde Boden Kloss echter aan, dat de naam...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318483

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 3. Types of the Eurylaimidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Dickinson, E.C.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.
A list of 62 names applied to Asian forms of species of broadbill (Eurylaimidae) is provided, with information on the whereabouts of one or more type specimens. Where our information does not include reliable information we provide notes to explain the deficit and to stimulate others to offer additional data or sources of information.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Eurylaimidae; Broadbills; Types; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219437

Nests of Anhinga novaehollandiae as nuclei for the breeding of Phalacrocoracidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
In the years 1992/1998, in Busselton, W Australia, nesting of two species of cormorant, Phalacrocorax melanoleucos and P. sulcirostris, always took place in close proximity to inhabited nests of Anhinga novaehollandiae. Evidently, nests of the latter strongly attracted cormorants about to start nesting. Although this attraction had been noted before (Vestjens, 1975), strangely, it was ignored in later standard works.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Phalacrocoracidae; Anhinga novaehollandiae; Western Australia.; 42.83.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317765

Notes on some birds from the island of Formosa (Taiwan)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Knowledge of the avifauna of Formosa or Taiwan has been summarised excellently by Hachisuka &amp; Udagawa (1950, 1951), who included references to many publications by Japanese authors, not readily available in Europe. As far as published evidence goes, not much ornithological work has been done in Formosa since 1951 : I have found only a few more recent papers, each dealing with a single species (Deignan, 1958, 1964; Ripley, 1962; Wayre, 1968). Barnes &amp; McLure (1966) recorded that bird-ringing has begun on the island. Over the past few years (1967-1969) the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie has acquired from Mr. K. H. Chen of Taipei a large collection of Formosan birds. Whereas, obviously, the majority belong to species well known from Formosa, two...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1970
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318643

The acoustic communication of the Polynesian megapode Megapodius pritchardii G. R. Gray
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Göth, A.; Vogel, U.; Curio, E.
The acoustic communication of the Polynesian megapode Megapodius pritchardii G.R. Gray, 1864, was studied and analysed for the first time. Adults pair up monogamously and the male produces so called whistles while guarding its mate. The three-element song of the male together with the females`s “coo” call are combined to produce a duet. Depending on the social context, either sex may initiate the duet. Both male song and duet serve mainly in territorial defence. Neighbouring pairs often answer by producing the same sound in response to any one of three vocalizations (song, duet, whistle). “Clucks” are additional sounds with a social function uttered by both sexes. When handled, adults and chicks utter “distress calls”; in chicks, these are the only sounds...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Polynesian megapode; Megapodius pritchardii; Vocalization; Repertoire; Duet; Signal function; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219419

Description of a new member of the Monarcha trivirgatа-group from Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands (Aves, Monarchinae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
Amongst material from the island of Flores forwarded by the Rev. Fr. J. A. J. Verheijen SVD and the Rev. Fr. E. Schmutz SVD is a monarchine flycatcher which appears to represent an undescribed species. It may be known and diagnosed as follows. Monarcha sacerdotum species nova Type and unique specimen, ♂ ad., with large gonads (the testes measured about 7 X 41/2 mm each), 25 September 1971, Sesok, Flores, 1000 m, collected in the lower stages of primary forest by E. Schmutz. Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie no. 68135. Diagnosis. — A morphologically very normal member of the genus Monarcha; measurements, including size and shape of bill, similar to those of M. t. trivirgata (Temminck), but plumage different in two conspicuous characters : 1° there is no...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1973
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318829

Description of a new race of Zosterops novaeguineae Salvadori (Aves, Zosteropidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
During a recent visit to the British Museum (Natural History), I found, stored away with some unsorted white-eyes, a skin, labelled as Zosterops sp., which evidently represents an undescribed race of Zosterops novaeguineae. It may be known as follows: Zosterops novaeguineae magnirostris, nov. subspec. Type: cf, January 1936, Awar, N. E. New Guinea, collected by Viscount Chaplin. Brit. Mus. reg. nr. 1936. 4. 20. 94. Measurements: Wings 54 and 54 1/2 mm respectively; culmen from skull 14 1/4 mm, exposed culmen 11 mm, culmen from anterior point of nostril 8 mm. The wings are freshly moulted and perfect, the tail is damaged. Diagnosis: Differs from all hitherto described races by its longer and heavier bill. Differs from the nominate race as well as from Z. n....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1955
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319296

A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part III)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
CONTENTS Introduction .................. 4 Acknowledgements................. 5 Systematic part.................. 7 Zosterops (concluded)................ 7 Tephrozosterops................. 167 Madanga................... 169 Lophozosterops................. 171 Oculocincta.................. 204 Heleia.................... 207 Chlorocharis.................. 212 Woodfordia.................. 220 Rukia.................... 225 Megazosterops.................. 232 Genus incertae sedis (Hypocryptadius)........... 235 Additions and corrections to part I............ 240 Additions and corrections to part II............ 276 Summary and conclusions............... 295 Introduction.................. 295 Theoretical and practical classification........... 296 A revised list...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1969
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317693

The importance of aviculture in scientific ornithology: a historical review
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Birkhead, T.; Balen, S. van.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Scientific ornithology; Aviculture; History; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210824

Biogeographic and conservation implications of revised species limits and distributions of South Asian birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Rasmussen, P.C.
Patterns of breeding species richness and endemism of South Asian birds are described and depicted. The impacts of a taxonomic revision on these patterns and on threat levels of the region’s avifauna are discussed.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Conservation; Species limits; Taxonomic revision; South Asian birds; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210814

Resultaten van het ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
Het eerste gedeelte van de berichten omtrent waarneming van geringde vogels, die gedurende het jaar 1932 bij 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie ingekomen zijn, wordt in de hierna volgende lijst vermeld. Het ringonderzoek neemt in de laatste jaren belangrijk toe en steeds verleenen meerdere medewerkers uit alle deelen van ons land hunne gewaardeerde hulp. Aan al degenen, die aan het ringonderzoek hebben deelgenomen, zoowel ringers als berichtgevers, betuig ik wederom veel dank; in de toekomst wordt eveneens hunne hulp op hoogen prijs gesteld en ik hoop dan ook ten zeerste, dat zij deze willen blijven verleenen. Schollevaar [Phalacrocorax carbo subcormoranus (Brehm)]. Ringnummer 42306, geringd te Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.) 18 Juni 1924 door de Goudsche...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1933
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318741

Low predictive power of mid-domain effect to explain geographic species richness patterns in Palearctic songbirds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Aliabadian, M.; Roselaar, C.S.; Sluys, R.; Nijman, V.
In the study of diversity patterns, the Mid-domain effect (MDE), which explains gradients in diversity solely on the basis of geometric constraints, has emerged as a null-model against which other hypotheses can be tested. The effectiveness, measured by its predictive power, of these MDE models appears to depend on the size of the study area and the range-sizes of the taxa considered. Here we test the predictive power of MDE on the species richness patterns of birds and assess its effectiveness for a variety of species range sizes. We digitised distribution maps of 889 species of songbird endemic to the Palearctic, and analysed the emergent biogeographic patterns with WORLDMAP software. MDE had a predictive power of 20% when all songbirds were included....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Passeriformes; Palearctic; Mid-domain effect; Species richness; Geographic range size; 42.83.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/256132

Orthopterological notes I : On the Lesini of the Leiden Museum (Tettigoniidae, Copiphorinae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Jong, C. de.
When rearranging a part of the collections of Orthoptera in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden I found a number of specimens belonging to this tribus, which by former authors is considered as a separate subfamily with the name Eumegalodontinae (Kirby, 1906, p. 289; Caudell, 1927, p. 30). With Karny I think it justified to let it retain its place as a tribe of the Copiphorinae. The representatives of this group are of such a remarkable shape that they can easily be recognized among the other Copiphorinae by their relatively big head and strangely shaped prothorax, which bears strongly spined lateral processes on the disc. The species under consideration can be divided into two groups, in the one of these the specimens possess a number of...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1942
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319358

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 38. The McClelland drawings and a reappraisal of the 1835-36 survey of the birds of Assam
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Walters, M.P.
McClelland brought back specimens and drawings from a survey in 1835-36 (and perhaps 1836-37). New birds were described in a paper read by Horsfield (1840). A comparison of the McClelland drawings of birds, held at the British Library, with the type specimens of birds newly named in 1840 and with other material has shown that McClelland’s collection was not fully reported. McClelland actually recorded about 170 species not just 96 as then listed. Some birds listed in 1840 were misidentified, of these some have been corrected earlier but at least one is here newly considered and looks as if it needs further correction. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes are included when necessary. The correct name to apply to the one species in the genus Melanochlora, the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: McClelland; Horsfield; Drawings; Birds; Assam; History; British Library; Melanochlora; Neotype; Tesia olivea; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220222

Over Dicaeum sanguinolentum sanguinolentum Temm. en Dicaeum sanguinolentum ablutum Rob. &amp; Kloss van West- en Oost-Java
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoogerwerf, A.
In 1923 splitsten Robinson en Kloss voor Oost-Java de ondersoort ablutum af naar aanleiding van twee huidjes verkregen nabij het langs het Idjen-gebergte gelegen Tamansari (Journ. Fed. Mal. States Mus., vol. II, 1923. P. 57), waarbij de volgende diagnose werd gepubliceerd. „Male. Like D. s. sanguinolentum Temm. of West Java; but with less red on the breast; throat and foreneck buffy, not suffused with red as in the typical race: in these respects intermediate between D. s. sanguinolentum and D. s. ignipectus (Hodgs.). Female. Foreneck and breast grey washed with buff instead of buff washed with grey: rump and upper tail-coverts like the back (again as in D. s. ignipectus), not red as in D. s. sanguinolentum". In 1929 gaven Bartels en Stresemann deze vorm...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1947
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318728

Revision of the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hellebrekers, W.Ph.J.
In 1910 the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden obtained the important egg collection from Surinam, brought together by Messrs. F. P. and A. P. Penard. Owing to different circumstances this collection as a whole was not studied again, and, with the exception of some notes in papers by Schönwetter (1932, 1933) nothing has been published upon the material since it came into the Museum. In 1941 and 1942 I had the opportunity to rearrange the oölogical collections of the Leiden Museum, and during this work the Penard material was incorporated into the general collection. During my study of the material I became convinced that it is worth while to publish more detailed data than those contained in the works of the Penard's. This especially holds as...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1942
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318020

Megapode phylogeny and the interpretation of incubation strategies
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Brom, T.G.
Among megapodes, several incubation stategies can be recognized. Eggs are incubated by heat generated from microbial decomposition, volcanism, or the sun. For a long time, controversy has existed whether these strategies represent primitive traits, inherited from reptilian ancestors, or have evolved from the 'regular' way of incubation in birds. In this paper these strategies are interpreted by superimposing them on the most recent phylogenetic hypotheses regarding the inter- and intrafamilial relationships of megapodes. We conclude that similarities shared with reptiles and kiwis are due to convergence. Arguments are put forward that mound-building represents the plesiomorphic condition in megapodes and that burrow-nesting has been derived from it....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Incubation-strategies; Evolution; Apterygidae.; 42.83.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317761

Resultaten van het ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Sleijser, A.J.
Het tweede gedeelte van de berichten omtrent waarneming van geringde vogels, die gedurende het jaar 1932 bij 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie ingekomen zijn, wordt in de hierna volgende lijst vermeld. Het gemis van Prof. Dr. E. D. van Oort bij het samenstellen van dit verslag is onzegbaar groot en het verlies niet te herstellen! Aan het werk van Van Oort op het gebied van het ringonderzoek, waarmede hij in 1911 in ons land een begin heeft gemaakt, is het bovenal te danken, dat dit onderzoek een zoo groote bekendheid in Nederland en daarbuiten verworven heeft en dat honderden in den lande daadwerkelijk hunne medewerking hieraan verleenen. Nog uit zijn naam dank ik dan ook alle medewerkers, zoowel ringers als berichtgevers voor alles, wat zij tot op...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1933
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318984

On Bonaparte's types of the cuckoos belonging to the genus Piaya
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
Recently Dr. J. L. Peters drew my attention to the fact that Bonaparte's Piaya circe and Piaya mehleri never were closely examined in the light of modern knowledge. It is, indeed, a good thing to do this, for the names, especially mehleri, have been used for birds from various localities by different authors; this caused a good deal of trouble and confusion in the genus. Thanks to the kindness of Dr. J. L. Peters of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Mass., and Dr. S. C. Simms of Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, I received some specimens of each race to which the names possibly should be applied. Piaya circe Bonaparte In 1850 (p. 110) Bonaparte described Piaya circe with habitat "Columbia". Sclater (1860, p. 285) placed this name in the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1937
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319378

Resultaten van het ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
De berichten van waarneming van geringde vogels, die mij tusschen 1 Januari 1926 en 31 December 1928 werden toegezonden, zijn in de volgende bladzijden vermeld. In het vorige verslag van het ringonderzoek (XV), waarin ik de verkregen resultaten tusschen 1 Januari 1923 en 31 December 1925 vermeldde (zie Zoologische mededeelingen, deel IX, 1926, pp. 179—198) is een foutieve vermelding te verbeteren; de vogel nl., die op p. 194 onder N°. 29259 als ransuil vermeld is, behoort niet tot deze soort maar is een kerkuil, Tyto flammea (Linnaeus). Evenals voorheen zijn er in de lange lijst van waarnemingen weder vele gevallen vermeld, die van bijzonder belang zijn voor de kennis van het trekken van de betreffende vogelsoort of die een aanduiding zijn, welken ouderdom...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1929
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318715

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 12. Types of the Alaudidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Eck, S.; Somadikarta, S.; Kalyakin, M.; Loskot, V.; Morioka, H.; Violani, C.; Voisin, C.
A list is provided of the 165 names applied to identifiable Asian forms of species of lark (family Alaudidae). This list summarises our collective knowledge on the whereabouts of types for these names; where our information does not include reliable data we provide notes relating to the deficit and to stimulate others to send us additional data or to suggest sources of information. In two appendices we deal with certain old names that we judge to be indeterminate and we designate a lectotype for Eremophila sibirica (Swinhoe, 1871b).
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Alaudidae; Larks; Types; Lectotype designation; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219910

Phylogeny of Old World Perninae (Accipitridae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Garnauf, A.; Haring, E.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Old World Perninae; Phylogeny; DNA; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210822

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 51. Dates of avian names introduced in early volumes of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Pittie, A.
The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal contains many new names of birds and other animals but accurate dating of the new names is difficult. The Society wanted it to contain a monthly meteorological report and in many, if not most, years deliberately issued the journal early in the month after that covered by this report, thus the December issue would normally have appeared in January. However, this pattern broke down due to the ill-health of the editor and periodic financial crises, resulting in backlogs of four months or more. Here, we focus solely on papers in which new birds are named and where it has been suggested that the imprint year was not the year of publication. We note the inconsistent dating of these papers in the past and recommend the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Bibliography; Consistency; Dates of publication; Charles Davies Sherborn; Charles Richmond; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209965

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 30. An undescribed acoustic display of the eared pitta Anthocincla phayrei Blyth, 1863
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Round, P.D.
In this paper an apparently undocumented, mechanical, acoustic display of the eared pitta Anthocincla phayrei Blyth, 1863 is described.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Anthocincla phayrei; Wing-flicking behaviour; Generic affinities; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220210

The whereabouts of pre-nineteenth century bird specimens
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Steinheimer, F.D.
The paper lists the whereabouts of surviving pre-nineteenth century bird collections containing altogether about 1500-3000 specimens. They are found in more than 50 institutions world-wide, with Berlin, Leiden, Paris, Stockholm, Tring and Vienna museums each holding more than 200 bird specimens from this period. The relevance of these collections for taxonomy and nomenclature is briefly discussed.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Pre-nineteenth century bird specimens; Whereabouts of collections; Importance of old collections; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210795

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 8. The types of Turdinus kalulongae Sharpe, 1893, a synonym of Malacopteron magnirostre cinereocapillum (Salvadori, 1868)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.
Two types of Turdinus kalulongae Sharpe, 1893, exist. The specimen at Tring is a lectotype, not a holotype as listed. The designation was indirect but consistent with the Rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The case well illustrates the preciseness of the applicability of the Rules in action.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Turdinus kalulongae; Types; Lectotype; ICZN; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219442

Notes on types and early specimens of Bombycivora japonica von Siebold, 1824, and of Bombycilla phoenicoptera Temminck, 1828
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oijen, M.J.P. van; Roselaar, C.S.
Roselaar &amp; Prins (2000) indicated there were two syntypes of Bombycivora japonica von Siebold, 1824; a 1st-winter female in the collection of the Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam, while the other, a male, was considered lost. However, in a letter to Temminck, von Siebold made clear that the species was described on the basis of one specimen. His description is clearly taken from a 1st-year male. Temminck (1828) described Bombicilla phoenicoptera based on the same ZMA specimen and an adult female specimen in the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, collected by von Siebold, which arrived in Leiden in 1827. The latter species is a synonym of the former. Because it is a female, the ZMA specimen cannot be the holotype of Bombycivora japonica. However,...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Bombicillidae; Bombycilla japonica; B. phoenicoptera; Bombycivora; Japanese Waxwing; Holotype; Von Siebold; Japan; 42.83.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/226660

Type specimens of birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Part 3. Passerines: Pachycephalidae – Corvidae (Peters's sequence)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Quaisser, C.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Passerines; Types; Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum; Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie; Bonaparte; Büttikofer; Finsch; Junge; Mees; Schlegel; Temminck; Van Oort; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209741

The transfer of a collection of bird skins from the Solomon Islands via Australia to Italy in the late 19th century
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: McAllen, I.; Borgo, E.; Violani, C.
An attempt is made to reconstruct the trail of a collection of birds from the Solomon Islands to museums in Genoa (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria”, Genova), Turin (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino) and Milan (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano), Italy, with the aid of museum specimens, documents and letters. The birds of this collection were described in the 1880s by Edward Pierson Ramsay of the Australian Museum in Sydney. Type specimens of four taxa of Solomon Islands birds are involved.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Solomon Islands; Bird specimens; Ramsay; Salvadori; Genoa Museum; Turin Museum; Milan Museum; Australian Museum; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210796

Systematic Notes on Asian Birds. 64. The range of the Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa and an evaluation of subspecies validity
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Nazarenko, A.A.
A critical analysis of the literature regarding Sitta villosa and the examination of specimens has shown that the range of this species is divisible into three main areas. These are well separated and each population is best treated as a valid subspecies, although for corea, the easternmost population, further research is needed to understand the distinctions between two apparently disjunct populations.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sitta villosa; Habitat loss; Range fragmentation; Subspecies variation; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210080

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 21. Babbler jungle: a re-evaluation of the ‘pyrrogenys’ group of Asian pellorneines (Timaliidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Wells, D.R.; Andrew, P.; Berg, A.B. van den.
The taxonomy of the jungle babblers, Delacour’s tribe Pellorneini, has long been subject to reversals of opinion, suggestive of a still-poor understanding of natural relationships. At the unstable boundary of genera Trichastoma and Pellorneum, groups of taxa usually taken to comprise a continental species tickelli and an insular species pyrrogenys have shifted from positions in separate genera to being neighbours in first one and then the other of these two. A fresh morphological analysis and newly described vocalizations show them to be one another’s probable closest relative, potentially conspecific but due to limitations on the allowable use of vocalization evidence among allopatric populations, for the time being at least, kept as separate entities....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Taxonomy; Species-limits; Vocalizations; Babbler; Pellorneini; Trichastoma; Pellorneum; 42.83.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219937

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 6. A re-examination of the application of the name Oriolus steerii Sharpe, 1877
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Kennedy, R.S.
There has been some confusion over whether the name Oriolus steerii Sharpe, 1877, should be attached to the population of Basilan or the population of Negros of the Philippine oriole. Two separate descriptions appeared (Sharpe, 1877 a, b) and differed. A decision on which was the prior description was taken by Dickinson et al. (1991) and a fresh review of the facts shows that they were incorrect in selecting Basilan as the type locality of the nominate form. That decision was in contradiction to the approach taken by Greenway in Mayr &amp; Greenway (1962). As there, the name must be assigned to the population of Negros. As a result, the population of Basilan must be called O. s. basilanicus Ogilvie- Grant, 1896, or if a broader species-concept is preferred...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Oriolus steerii; Philippine oriole; Type locality; Lectotype; Citation; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219440

Proceedings of the Third International Megapode Symposium, Nhill, Australia, December 1997  [contents and introduction]
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Jones, D.N.; Benshemesh, J.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Galliformes; Aves; Biogeography; Phylogeny; Behaviour; Ecology; Conservation; Bibliography; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219415

Two new Bird-records from Surinam (Dutch Guyana)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Voous Jr., K.H.
Falco peregrinus anatum Bonaparte Adult (evidently ♀), Surinam. Wing 363, tail 170, tarsus 53, culmen from cere 24 mm. Together with other Surinam bird-skins, the specimen was sent to Harlem (Holland) in 1899 for exhibition at the "Koloniale Westindische Tentoonstelling". It is now in the collection of the Colonial Institution at Amsterdam. The North-American Peregrine Falcon has not yet been recorded from all three Guyanas: Chubb (1916) does not mention it from the British Colony, nor the brothers Penard (1908) from Surinam, nor Von Berlepsch (1908) from Cayenne. As the bird has been recorded several times from Trinidad (off the coast of Venezuela) (cf. Roberts, 1934) and a juvenile specimen from Brazil is preserved in the Zoological Museum at Berlin...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1945
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318564

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 48. Nomenclatural chaos untangled, resulting in the naming of the formally undescribed Cacatua species from the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Roselaar, C.S.; Michels, J.P.
The history and taxonomic status of the species-group names Lophochroa goffini Finsch, 1863, and Cacatua tanimberensis Roselaar &amp; Prins, 2000, both used to name the Tanimbar Corella, are reviewed nomenclaturally. It is confirmed that Lophochroa goffini (sensu Finsch, 1863) is not applicable to the Tanimbar Corella, but represents a junior synonym of Cacatua ducorpsii Pucheran, 1853, as shown by Roselaar &amp; Prins (2000). The substitute name Cacatua tanimberensis they proposed is an objective junior synonym of L. goffini and subjective junior synonym of C. ducorpsii. From the nomenclatural point of view, the Tanimbar Corella remains undescribed and is here named.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Cockatoos; Cacatuidae; Tanimbar Corella; New nominal species; History; Nomenclature; Cacatua goffini; Cacatua tanimberensis; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215560

My life with eggs
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Walters, M.P.
In an autobiographical account, which was presented as a special presentation because of his retirement, Michael Walters summarizes the unusual circumstances which resulted in him becoming curator of the world’s largest bird egg collection at Tring. It also highlights the special curatorial problems and idiosyncrasies involved with this collection and its constituent components.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: The Natural History Museum; Tring; Egg collection; Walters; Autobiographyz; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210791

Morphological evolution of some migratory Ficedula flycatchers
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Outlaw, D.C.
Long-distance migration imposes physiological and morphological selection pressures on birds. The genus Ficedula, a lineage of Old World flycatchers, consists of long- and short-distance migratory species, as well as sedentary species. Members of each of these groups are not reciprocally monophyletic, yet each of the behavioral groups is morphologically distinguishable even when accounting for phylogeny. Long-distance migratory species have more pointed wings than either short-distance migratory or sedentary species, and migratory behaviors and wing pointed-ness are phylogenetically correlated. This suggests that migratory Ficedula species have converged on a migratory phenotype, and that migration may be a selective agent that has shaped the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Ancestral states; Phylogeny; Migration; Morphology; 42.83.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/402018

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 1. A review of the russet bush-warbler Bradypterus seebohmi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dickinson, E.C.; Rasmussen, P.C.; Round, P.D.; Rozendaal, F.G.
The bush-warbler Bradypterus mandelli (Brooks, 1875) was described from Sikkim, and numerous specimens from India were identified with it, but it was synonymised with the brown bush-warbler Bradypterus luteoventris (Hodgson, 1845) in 1881. In 1952, east Asian populations were grouped under the name of the Luzon form of the russet bush-warbler, Bradypterus seebohmi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895). This taxonomy, however, failed to associate the Indian form and its available name mandelli, which received limited usage until 1919, with seebohmi, a matter reviewed and corrected herein. Specimens prove that mandelli has long been known from India, Bhutan, and Myanmar (Burma). The Thai population, previously placed in idoneus (Riley, 1940), belongs instead with the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Taxonomy; Nomenclature; Bradypterus alishanensis; Bradypterus luteoventris; Bradypterus mandelli; Bradypterus montis; Bradypterus seebohmi; Bradypterus timorensis; 42.83.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219435

Over eenige in Nederland waargenomen Emberiza-soorten
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
Toen ik eenigen tijd geleden het gorsen-materiaal uit Nederland in 's Rijks Museum aanwezig aan een nader onderzoek onderwierp, kwamen mij ook de voorwerpen uit de collectie van Wickevoort Crommelin in handen en trof het mij, dat een drietal voorwerpen foutief gedetermineerd was. De oorspronkelijk door J. P. van Wickevoort Crommelin verrichte determinaties zijn door Dr. F. A. Jentink in 1894 onveranderd overgenomen in „Catalogue de la collection de feu Mr. J. P. van Wickevoort Crommelin" (Mus. d'Hist. nat. Pays-Bas, XIV, 1894) en uit de opgaven in deze naamlijst hebben latere schrijvers hunne gegevens geput, zonder het materiaal aan een nieuw onderzoek onderworpen te hebben. Twee der voorwerpen behooren tot andere, reeds uit Nederland bekende soorten,...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1927
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318371

Mate choice in Australian brush-turkeys Alectura lathami : a preliminary report
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Birks, S.
Female brush-turkeys respond to several factors when choosing with whom they will mate and where they will lay their eggs. The most important factors seem to be mound condition (especially incubation stage and digging effort required), male presence at mounds (though not necessarily male quality), and perhaps competition with other females for access to mounds. Most visits by females to mounds are for the purpose of copulation and mound "assessment" rather than egg laying. Females visit several mounds/males during the breeding season. Once they make a choice, most remain loyal to the chosen mound/male for several weeks, and are rarely seen at other mounds during this time. When switching to new mounds, females always choose more recently built ones even if...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Alectura lathami; Female mate-choice.; 42.83.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317606

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 61. New data on taxonomy and nomenclature of the Common Sand Martin Riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) and the Pale Sand Martin R. diluta (Sharpe &amp; Wyatt, 1893)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Loskot, V.M.
The main diagnostic characters of Riparia riparia and R. diluta are discussed based on fresh examinations of extensive material. The opinion of Zarudny that his subspecies innominata belongs to R. riparia is validated, but the series of syntypes of R. riparia innominata includes birds of both these sand martin species, and a lectotype is designated for R. r. innominata Zarudny 1916.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Riparia riparia; Riparia diluta; Diagnostic characters; Types; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210075

Belatedly hatching ornithology collections at the National Museum of Ireland
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Sigwart, J.D.; Callaghan, E.; Colla, A.; Dyke, G.J.; McCaffrey, S.L.
For the first time, summary details are presented for the ornithological collections of the National Museum of Ireland (Natural History) (NMINH). To date, new cataloguing efforts in collaboration with University College Dublin have documented close to 10,000 non-passerine bird skins and taxidermy mounts.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Non-passerine birds; Museum collections; Museum education; Collection database; 42.83.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210792

Proceedings of the First International Megapode Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 1990
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Jones, D.N.
Contents Contents................................................................................................................................................................3 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................................3 Current studies on megapode phylogeny (Brom, T.G. &amp; R.W.R.J. Dekker) ..............................................7 Megapode phylogeny and the interpretation of incubation strategies (Dekker, R.W.R.J. &amp; T.G. Brom)...19 An evolutionary approach to megapode mating systems (D.N. Jones)....................................................33 Mate choice in Australian brush-turkeys Alectura lathami: A preliminary...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Galliformes; Aves; Phylogeny; Incubation strategies; Mating systems; Bibliography.; 42.83.
Ano: 1992
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317553

Resultaten van het ringonderzoek betreffende den vogeltrek, ingesteld door 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
De hier volgende berichten van waarneming van geringde vogels werden door mij in 1929 ontvangen. Wederom zijn talrijke interessante gevallen te vermelden, dank zij de medewerking van zoo velen, aan wie ik hier openlijk dank breng. Bij voortduring beveel ik ons ringonderzoek in aller medewerking aan en houd ik mij steeds aanbevolen voor mededeeling van elk geval van waarneming van een geringden vogel, ook van die, die met een door een buitenlandsch station verstrekten ring gemerkt zijn. Schollevaar [Phalacrocorax carlo subcormoranus (Brehm)]. Ringnummer 55238, geringd te Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.) 21 Mei 1927 door de Goudsche Ornithologische Club als nestjong; 17 Januari 1929 doodgevonden te Vaugneray, Rhône, 14 K.M. van Lyon, Frankrijk. Berichtgever de Heer M....
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1930
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319283

Type-specimens of birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Part 1. Non-Passerines
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den; Dekker, R.W.R.J.; Keijl, G.O.
The non-Passerine type-specimens present in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, are listed. The history of the bird collection is summarized.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Aves; Non-passerines; Types; National Museum of Natural History; Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie; Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum; 42.83.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/216191

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 41. Territorial songs and species-level taxonomy of nightjars of the Caprimulgus macrurus complex, with the description of a
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Sangster, G.; Rozendaal, F.G.
The Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus Horsfield, 1821, complex, as currently recognized, comprises 12 taxa which are grouped into four species based on their territorial songs. However, species limits are based on very small samples of a limited number of taxa in the complex. To further document species limits in the complex, we analysed 109 sound recordings representing all recognized taxa. Principal components analysis suggests the existence of six vocally distinct groups within the complex. Discriminant function analysis assigned 98-100% of individuals correctly to their group. Each of these groups differs diagnosably from all other groups by up to eight vocal characters, and each group is recognizable by ear. We propose to treat these six...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Caprimulgus macrurus; Species limits; Taxonomy; Geographic variation; Vocalizations; 42.83.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/215553

A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part II)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
INTRODUCTION In this, the second part of my revision of the Zosteropidae, 26 species are dealt with, all belonging to the genus Zosterops. The remaining 12 species of the genus and all the other genera, will be treated in the third part, the preparation of which is in progress. Unfortunately, it becomes more and more clear that no revision of the Pacific forms of the Zosteropidae can be really satisfactory without a visit to the American Museum of Natural History, where all the material of the Tring Museum and of the Whitney South Sea Expedition is assembled. Even though the co-operation of the authorities of that museum is above praise, I have usually been able to examine part of their series only, and no type specimens at all. More important is that the...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1961
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317625

Additions to the Avifauna of suriname
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
It is self-evident that as the avifauna of a country becomes better known, the number of additions to its avifauna one can expect to make in a given period, must decrease. On the other hand, it may be said that for the same reason the value of each addition increases. During a stay in Suriname of about a year in 1965/66 I found 17 species of birds which had not been previously recorded from the country (Mees, 1968). A second stay of a year's duration (November 1971-November 1972), yielded eleven additions to the avifauna of Suriname: nine of these are based on material collected, whereas two are based on field-observations only. With one of the species being represented by two subspecies, and one held over from my previous stay when lack of comparative...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1974
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318902

Description of the hitherto unknown males of Argiope reinwardti (Doleschall, 1859) and Cyrtophora monulfi Chrysanthus, 1960 (Araneae, Argiopidae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Chrysanthus, Fr.
During 1970 Dr. M. H. Robinson, Mrs. B. Robinson and Miss Y. Lubin, of the Bishop Museum Field Station in Wau (T.P.N.G.) studied Argiopid spiders in that part of eastern New Guinea. They collected many specimens and sent them to me for identification. Among these materials there were the hitherto unknown males of two species. The descriptions of these males are given here. Argiope reinwardti (Doleschall, 1859) (figs. 1-4) Epeira trifasciata Doleschall, 1857: 416 (♀); 1859: pl. 1 fig. 3(♀)- preocc. Epeira reinwardti Doleschall, 1859: 31, pl. 15 fig. 5(♀). Argyope reinwardti (Doleschall), Chrysanthus, 1971: 15, figs. 20-22 (♀). Roewer (1942: 741) synonymized Argiope plana L. Koch, 1867, with A. reinwardti and assumed that the male described and figured by...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1972
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317953

Maturity and Breeding Dress in Birds. III and IV. The Plumages of Tringa canutus L. and of Tringa crassirostris Temm. &amp; Schlegel
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Verwey, J.
INTRODUCTION. A complete description of the summer plumage of Tringa canutus never seems to have been given. For this reason alone it might be of some value to describe it in more detail than has been done before. The chief object of the present paper, however, is not the description of the summer dress, but the discussion of a problem connected with it, which is of much more general interest. As the same problem presents itself in the summer plumage of one of the Knot's nearest relatives, the plumage of this bird, Tringa crassirostris, will be dealt with in the latter part of the present paper. I have to thank my friend Dr. H. Boschma for his valuable assistance in the preparation of this paper. III. THE PLUMAGE OF TRINGA CANUTUS L. 1. MATERIAL. The...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1927
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319035

On a new bird of paradise from Central New Guinea, Falcinellus meyeri albicans
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Oort, E.D. van.
Among the collection of birdskins brought home by the third expedition to Mount Wilhelmina in the Snow Mountains of New Guinea there are some specimens, males and females, of a bird of paradise, much resembling Falcinellus meyeri (Finsch) from South-east New Guinea, but differing in some points. They likely are representatives of a western form of the above-named species, inhabiting the high mountains of the central part of Netherlands' New Guinea. I name this form: Falcinellus meyeri albicans nov. subsp. The adult male is similar to that of meyeri, the long feathers of the flanks however are white and not pale yellowish brown; the breast is more pure olive, with less brown tinge. The female much resembles that of meyeri, but the colour of the back, upper...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1915
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318071

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 29. On the types of Sitta sinensis J. Verreaux, 1871 and Sitta montium La Touche, 1899
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Voisin, C.; Voisin, J.-F.; Causey, D.; Dickinson, E.C.
The type-series of Sitta sinensis Verreaux, 1871, included two specimens now housed in the collections of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, which belong to two different taxa, Sitta sinensis and Sitta montium La Touche, 1899, one currently known as S. europaea sinensis Verreaux and the other usually treated as a synonym of S. nagaensis nagaensis Godwin-Austin, 1874. Lectotypes are selected for S. sinensis Verreaux, 1871 and S. montium La Touche, 1899.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Sittidae; Nuthatches; Sitta sinensis; Sitta montium; Lectotype-selection; 42.83.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220209

Catalogue of the Doliidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Bayer, Ch.
The present catalogue of the Doliidae has been composed in the same way as my former catalogues. I have entered in it, not only the Doliumspecies present in the collections of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, but also all the other species that I found mentioned in literature of which we have no material. In Lamarck's time (1822) only 7 Doliums were known, while Reeve in 1849 described 15, which number has since grown to approximately 54 species or varieties. Of all these species I give the principal synonyms and after those of which we possess material, follows a list of the specimens, stating 1) the letter under which it is entered and in the case of material on spirit the number of the bottle, 2) the number of specimens, 3) the locality; if...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1937
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318341

A new subspecies of Accipiter virgatus (Temminck) from Flores, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia (Aves: Accipitridae)
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
A new subspecies of Accipiter virgatus (Temminck) is described from Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands). In addition some notes are given on the distribution of A. virgatus in south-eastern Burma and adjacent parts of Thailand, supplementary to an earlier paper (Mees, 1981).
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Accipiter virgatus; Geographic variation; Flores; 42.83.
Ano: 1984
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318853

The Avifauna of Trinidad and Tobago
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.; Mees, G.F.
This paper deals with a collection of birds from Trinidad and Tobago brought together by the junior author during a stay on these islands from the end of June 1953 till February 1954. The collection contains 835 specimens belonging to 178 species. About one hundred skins have been collected on Tobago. The collection mainly consists of the smaller species, which is due to the fact that at the time Mees was not in the possession of an adequate shooting gun for the larger species. Though much collecting work has already been done on Trinidad the collection contains one new subspecies, Pipra erythrocephala flavissima, jointly described, while it was shown that Tanagra violacea rodwayi is a tenable race. Moreover the Trinidad list is augmented by the following...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1961
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317734

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 34. A preliminary review of the Aegithinidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Wells, D.R.; Dickinson, E.C.; Dekker, R.W.R.J.
Hypotheses of iora phylogeny are reviewed up to date, and the history of the generic name investigated. Interactions between A. nigrolutea and A. tiphia are examined and reasons presented for treating them as separate species. The allowability of a widely disjunct distribution in subspecies A. tiphia deignani Hall, 1957 is queried, and its range narrowed substantially, forcing a re-designation of Indian populations. Additional, small systematic and distributional issues bearing on other Aegithina species are noticed.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Ioras; Aegithinidae; Species-limits; Intergrades; Subspecies; Nomenclature; Convergence; Eclipse plumage; 42.83.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/220218

Systematic notes on Asian birds. 65. A preliminary review of the Certhiidae
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Martens, J.; Tietze, D.T.
Recent proposed taxonomic changes in the Certhiidae are reviewed within the geographic scope of this series and their reliability is discussed in terms of the Biological Species Concept, with respect to secondary contacts, bioacoustics, and molecular genetics. Certain hitherto unpublished data, useful for the understanding of taxonomic decisions, are included. In accordance with Article 24.2.3 of the Code one of us acts as First Reviser in selecting the correct spelling of the name of the recently described Chinese species.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Certhiidae; Species limits; Systematics; Taxonomy; First Reviser; Eastern Palaearctic region; Indomalayan region; Morphology; Bioacoustics; Molecular geneticsz; 42.83.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/210083

Die Vögel der Insel Gebe
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Mees, G.F.
EINLEITUNG Die Insel Gebe, eine verhältnismässig lange, schmale Insel mit einer grössten Länge von 421/2 km, einer Oberfläche von etwa 140 km2, und einer grössten Höhe von 396 m1), bildet geographisch eine Brücke zwischen der Molukkeninsel Halmahera und der papuanischen Insel Waigeo. Man könnte deshalb erwarten, dass sie auch zoogeographisch wichtig sei, und in ihrer Fauna Elemente östlicher und westlicher Herkunft vereinigen dürfte. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es merkwürdig, ja nahezu unverständlich, dass die Insel von zoologischen Sammlern fast vollständig vernachlässigt worden ist und dass z.B. nie eine Liste ihrer Avifauna veröffentlicht wurde. Seit Sonnerat (1776) im Jahre 1770 die Insel besucht und dort wohl einige Vogelarten gesammelt hat (sicher Eos...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1972
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318532

A Note on the Charadriiformes listed for Sumatra by Robinson &amp; Kloss, 1918 and 1923
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Gibson-Hill, C.A.
In a paper on some birds from Sumatra in the Leiden Museum Dr. Junge (1948, pp. 314-15) lists two males of Limosa lapponica baueri Naum. taken by Mr. Van Heurn on the beach at Tandjong Tiram in the Deli district on 14 November 1921. In a short discussion on this record he refers to the fact that Vorderman (1890, p. 416) gives this species as probably occurring in Sumatra, and subsequently Robinson &amp; Kloss (1923, p. 326) and Chasen (1935, p. 37) list it without query or comment. Dr. Junge adds that he failed to find the reference on which the later authors decided that the bird was definitely known from Sumatra. It is probable that no such reference exists and that Dr. Junge's paper constitutes the first authentic published record of the occurrence...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1950
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318950

Notes on some Sumatran birds
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Junge, G.C.A.
During the war I was able to identify some collections of birds from Sumatra, present in the Leiden Museum. These collections were brought together by E. Jacobson and W. C. van Heurn in the Padang Highlands in 1013; by W. Groeneveldt in the same area in 1914 and 1915; bij L. P. Cosquino de Bussy and by Dr. F. C. van Heurn in Deli in 1912-1913 and 1918-1919 respectively; by C. J. Batenburg in the Palembang residency between 1918 and 1920 (many skins without exact locality) and by H. R. Rookmakers in Acheen in 1930. This paper contains remarks on those specimens, which are of more special interest. For the loan of material or for most useful information I am much indebted to Dr. H. G. Deignan (Washington), A. Hoogerwerf (Buitenzorg), J. G. van Marle...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: 42.83.
Ano: 1948
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318125

What we don’t know about megapodes
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Jones, D.N.
While the growth in megapode studies has been extraordinary, much remains to be done. Further work is especially crucial if the many conservation projects that are planned and underway are to be based on a sound and reliable base of understanding. Thus, the ten projects proposed here are not directly conservation-orientated. Rather, they are aimed at elucidating aspects and issues that are needed for a more complete understanding of these remarkable birds. In particular, a plea is made for high quality natural history and for cultural sensitivity and awareness.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Megapodiidae; Mating systems; Vocalization; Conservation; Future studies; 42.83.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/219429

How near, how far? Adaptive radiation in mammals and birds on various islands
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den; Locatelli, E.; Meijer, H.J.M.
Many factors control radiations on islands, but some general patterns do emerge. Bird radiations are mostly found on oceanic archipelagos far from the continental coast line. Mammal radiations are mostly know from island arcs, which are somewhat easier to reach though still isolated enough to allow evolutionary lineages to develop and diverge. In contrast to birds, strong mammal radiations seem possible on a single island.
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Islands; Evolution; Evolutionary theory; Adaptive radiation; 38.22; 42.84; 42.83.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/428471