h at HQ, Kinabalu Park by KEULEMANS, J.G. - Borneo Bird Images

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Bornean Leafbird

Latin Name : Chloropsis kinabaluensis

Site Name : HQ, Kinabalu Park

Photographer : KEULEMANS, J.G.

Date : 1893-00-00

Notes : Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans. Keulemans was one of the most famous and prolific bird artists of the late19th Century. Between c.1850 and c.1900 British ornithologists including Everett, Whitehead, Hose and Wallace scoured the remotest parts of the world collecting new bird species and selling their skins to wealthy collectors and museums back home. London was the world center of this trade. New species were usually described in The Ibis by Richard Bowdler Sharpe of the British Museum and often named after the collector or a friend or sponsor. Keulemans was often commissioned to illustrate the new species and his illustrations appear frequently in editions of the The Ibis from that period.