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Mees, G.F.. |
INTRODUCTION In my recent revision of the Belonidae (Mees, 1962) a number of problems had to remain unsolved because of lack of material, and in particular because of a number of named forms the type specimens had not been available. The revision was called "preliminary" for that reason. Thanks to the co-operation of colleagues in several countries I have been able, on a round-the-world tour which lasted from February to August, 1962, to examine nearly all the types of what I had previously had to regard as species dubiae, and other type specimens, which show that in a few instances the synonymy presented in my paper is erroneous. A serious error in the key also became obvious (see under Belone punctulata). Though, inevitably, a few problems remain to be... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: 42.81. |
Ano: 1964 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318613 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mees, G.F.. |
CONTENTS Introduction................... 4 Zoogeography.................. 5 Bibliography................... 7 Collecting localities................. 8 Acknowledgements................. 11 Auchenipteridae.................. 12 Auchenipterus.................. 16 Pseudauchenipterus................ 23 Trachycorystes.................. 27 Auchenipterichthys................. 33 Parauchenipterus...... ........... 38 Centromochlus.................. 44 Tatia.................... 55 Glanidium................... 93 Pseudotatia.................. 105 Tocantinsia.................. 108 Trachelyichthys................. 111 Pimelodidae................... 114 Hemisorubim.................. 117 Brachyplatystoma................. 120 Pseudoplatystoma................. 127... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.81. |
Ano: 1974 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317592 |
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Mees, G.F.; Kailola, P.J.. |
CONTENTS 1. Introduction................... 3 2. Acknowledgements................. 6 3. History of classification............... 7 4. Character variation................. 9 5. Generic classification................ 16 6. Affinities and zoogeography.............. 21 7. Key to the species known from New Guinea.......... 26 8. Genus Helotes.................. 31 9. Genus Therapon................. 31 10. References................... 84 11. Gazetteer................... 86 I. INTRODUCTION The Therapontidae 2) constitute a small family of Perciform fishes, the members of which are of a remarkably homogeneous appearance, notwithstanding the fact that it includes marine as well as freshwater species. The distribution of the family as a whole is Indo-Pacific, from... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.81. |
Ano: 1977 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317740 |
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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 |
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Mees, G.F.. |
INLEIDING De vondst in het Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie van twee stuks van de uitgestorven ral Pareudiastes pacificus Hartlaub & 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 & 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 |
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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 & Udagawa's... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.83. |
Ano: 1977 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/319092 |
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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 |
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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 & 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... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.83. |
Ano: 1977 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317588 |
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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.... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.83. |
Ano: 1971 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318399 |
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Obwohl der Kolibri Phaethornis malaris (Nordmann) der Wissenschaft wahrscheinlich schon vor Ausgang des XVIII. Jahrhunderts bekannt war (eine Abbildung findet sich in Audebert & 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... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.83. |
Ano: 1977 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318739 |
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INTRODUCTION Difficulties with the identification of some West-Indian Belonidae and an investigation into the merits of the generic name Strongylura as against Tylosurus led to a revision of the Belonidae, the result of which is published here. As will be seen on the following pages, this revision is by no means final; many problems remain to be solved, much synonymy given here is doubtful, lack of material prevented me from investigating the possible presence of slight geographic variation in the widely distributed species; some apparently valid species are left out altogether (I listed their names on p. 5) because no material has been available, and other names remain doubtful as it has not been possible to examine the type specimens. There is also the... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.81. |
Ano: 1962 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317773 |
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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... |
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Palavras-chave: 42.83. |
Ano: 1976 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318481 |
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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 |
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Mees, G.F.. |
Since the publication of a paper on Auchenipteridae and Pimelodidae (Mees, 1974), I have received additional material of several of the genera there revised. This material includes a new species of Pseudopimelodus from Venezuela, increasing the number of species of that genus to six (two of which have several subspecies), and a new species of Microglanis from Ecuador, the eighth member of its genus. The main purpose of this paper is the description of these two new species. In addition, fresh material of Microglanis iheringi, a species of which previously I had examined only a single specimen, enabled me to supply some additional notes on it as well as an illustration showing its distinctive characters much better than do the photographs published by Gomes... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: 42.81. |
Ano: 1978 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318609 |
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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 |
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