1906/01/01 by E Hartert · 2 citations
Environmental Science · Immunology and Microbiology · #Avian ecology and behavior #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Bird parasitology and diseases
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HAVING returned to the East; ouco more, our valued corrcsjioudenl BIr.Heiuricli.Kiihu has agaiu commenced to collect birds on the less known islands of the great Eastern Archipelago.In Sor.Zoo/.l'JU4.jiji.174-::i21 I gave a list (if the birds collected by ilr.Kidiu on the Honth-West Islands, and, as I said on ]i.176, collections were not made on the more eastern i.slauds, Sermatta, Luang and Babber.Mr. Kiihu sent a parly of Malayan collectors to ISabber, who made a collection of 7t) sjiecies.Unfortunately the collection does not seem to be a comideto one, as the work on Babber had suddenly to be terminated, on account of the hostile behaviour of some of the natives.A few Babber specimens have long ago reached the Dresden Museum, and were duly recorded and jiartly described as new by Ur. A. B. Meyer.Also Mr. Hchiidler sent a collection of 31 species (about half of those sent by Mr. Kiihn) from Babber to the Leyden Museum, and the latter has been recorded by Dr. Otto Finsch in his valuable article "Systemat.Ueliers.der VOgel der Siidwcst-Iuseln " in Ao