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  1. Hidde Bruinsma

    Your most anticipated futures books

    If you are interested in this book I can recommend another similar publication: "Oiseaux de Nlle Caledonie et des Loyautes" by Hannecart and Letocart, 1980. It's bilingual and also illustrated with lots of photographs.
  2. Hidde Bruinsma

    Your favourite books of 2023

    I've bought just a few books this year but The Bird Art of William t. Cooper is far and away my fave book of the year. And not just this year.
  3. Hidde Bruinsma

    Bird Studies with a Camera, Frank.M.Chapman

    I can also recommend his "Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist" 1908, also with lots of old photos by the author.
  4. Hidde Bruinsma

    10 new bird taxa described from Indonesia

    Why no mention of the still undescribed Taliabu Geokichla ? Isn't that a mountain bird ?
  5. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds - An Identification Guide

    If you go to AbeBooks you'll find several for sale and not for anyway near the price you mention.
  6. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds - An Identification Guide

    Let me please mention Cooper and Forshaw's "The Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds". I mean, talking about serious artwork.
  7. Hidde Bruinsma

    Lesson

    Coincidence wants that I've just bought his monograph on the birds of paradise and the title page mentions him as "Professeur de Chimie" among many other titles.
  8. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    What I find most baffling about this whole redesignation of the nominate form is the fact that it is presented by five authors. For one person to come up with such a far fetched theory is daring enough but five people. How could they have aligned ? By the way, Phil, great to know that your...
  9. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    I forgot to answer your question concerning the locality of Sonnerat's purchase of skins. It was Gebe, another West Papuan Island. In 1772 he was presented on that island with skins of several Birds of Paradise by the Raja of Salawati and the Raja of Patani.
  10. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    I'm not positive that Prètre's bird is the same as Daubenton's bird and it is Daubenton's bird that was the first one illustrated, not Sonnerat's bird. All these early illustrations were done by French artists and probably all based on material from the natural history museum in Paris. They all...
  11. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    Now the cape feather issue begins to make sence to me. Judging by these feathers alone one could indeed interpret Daubenton's bird as coming from the central mountains. But Sonnerat's illustration shows far more crescent-shaped cape feathers, at least to me. And there are two other illustrations...
  12. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    Don't worry, I'm unarmed. The fact that both Sonnerat and Daubenton show a bird without black centres in the feathers of the breast shield is no minor discrepancy. It proves that the model originated from the Vogelkop mountains just as the ones illustrated by Audebert and Barraband. Only the...
  13. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    I'm getting more and more puzzled by this. They re-identified nominate superba from those, may I say not very accurate, illustrations ? It's not plausible at all that the earliest skins from Lophorina came from anywhere else but the Vogelkop. All the new Birds of Paradise that became known in...
  14. Hidde Bruinsma

    Birds of paradise

    So addenda is resurrected in this new sequence. In recent literature it was regarded a synonym of latipennis together with connectens. What are the differences ?
  15. Hidde Bruinsma

    William Cooper's Pigeons and Doves of Australia

    From pigeons to parrots. I've just read "A Natural History of Australian Parrots" and it is wonderful. It's essentially an updated version of "Australian Parrots" of which the last edition was published fourteen years ago. Apart from much new information there is much more art work included. All...
  16. Hidde Bruinsma

    The last post...

    So embarrassed to learn about Richard's passing only now. A great loss for the Klim family and a great loss for the Forum family. His posts were usually the very first I read when visiting the Forum. He had a brilliant mind. Seemed like a decent bloke too !
  17. Hidde Bruinsma

    William Cooper's Pigeons and Doves of Australia

    A magnificent new book will be published with lots of previously unpublished artwork: https://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/a-natural-history-of-australian-parrots-a-tribute-to-william-t-cooper
  18. Hidde Bruinsma

    William Cooper's Pigeons and Doves of Australia

    I've just found out that all the original artwork for the pigeon book was bought from Andrew Isles by the State Library of New South Wales last June.
  19. Hidde Bruinsma

    Ailuroedus catbirds

    You're right. I considered joanae a highland taxon because it is also supposed to live in the McIlwraith Range, although I have never seen nor heard it there and I wonder if anyone else ever has. Talking about bowerbirds, how is the monograph progressing ?
  20. Hidde Bruinsma

    Ailuroedus catbirds

    If they want to split the lowland from the highland birds why keep highland joanae and facialis in lowland melanotis ?
  21. Hidde Bruinsma

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    The original citation of the immature male was published in 1980 by John E. duPont and David M. Niles in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (Vol.100 No. 4). The holotype collected by R.H. Beck was judged wrongly sexed when it was compared with the 1953 adult females. Later...
  22. Hidde Bruinsma

    Guadalcanal Moustached Kingfisher

    I find it remarkable that several times by several people it has been stated that no male specimen of this bird was ever collected. Literature clearly shows that one of the three specimens is a male. It's just not fully mature. Not that it matters that much to the discussion but detail is detail.
  23. Hidde Bruinsma

    William Cooper's Pigeons and Doves of Australia

    Judging by what is written on his site Isles must have it. CSIRO mentions nothing of a reprint whatsoever.
  24. Hidde Bruinsma

    William Cooper's Pigeons and Doves of Australia

    Andrew Isles came up with this. If you've got your copy from him you can get a replacement copy from his place. For free. I expect the same applies if you bought it directly from CSIRO.
  25. Hidde Bruinsma

    William Cooper's Pigeons and Doves of Australia

    Next month a new edition will be published of the pigeon book with heavier paper, better binding and a dedication to the artist.
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