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WHITEHEAD, John.
Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo.
Whitehead belongs to the much-maligned class of field-naturalists. For the purpose of obtaining knowledge of the ornithology of Mount Kina Balu, he spent nearly four years collecting in the region and accumulated a large number of new species. In addition to visiting North Borneo, he stayed some time at Java and Palawan and made an expedition into the State of Malacca. The rather cumbersome volume before us recounts the story of these explorations. Thirty-two excellent plates illustrate specimens from the extensive zoological collections made by Mr. Whitehead and the places and peoples seen by him.
- Published
- London: Gurney & Jackson: 1893.
- Plates
- 32
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Gurney & Jackson: 1893.
- Ref
- 692
FIRST EDITION. 32 litho. plates, including eleven hand-coloured, heightened with gum Arabic, several with pink, oval ink lib. stamps affecting some plate versos & title verso, upper margin of the first page of the main text and last page. Bookplate to front pastedown orig. pict. cloth gilt re-backed with original spine relaid slightly rubbed and soiled. Two small library marks on the spine folio contained in a purpose-made green cloth book box. Chocolate coloured endpapers. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontis. Calyptomena Whiteheadi. 2. Mount Ophir, Malacca. 3. Brunei Houses (Labuan). 4. Kina-Balu, from Gaya Island. 5. Fishermen. North Borneo. 6. Stoparola Cerviniventris / Pericrocotus. 7. Boukar / My home on the Benkoker. 8. Nine assorted insects. 9. New Reptiles. (3 figs) 10. Kina-Balu, from the Tampassuk Plain. 11. Hindoo Idol. Singosari, Java / Datu Tumangong's House. Tampassuk. 12. Murut Woman (Lawas River) / Murut Warrior (Lawas River). 13. Native decorative work. (9 figs) 14. Corythocichla Crassa / Hemixus Connectens. 15. The Semeroe (from Lawang), Java. 16. [Native Birds] Chlorura Borneensis / Cryptolopha Xanthopygia / Stapihdia Everetti. 17. Kina-Balu from Melangkap Village. 18. Dusun Women (Kina Balu) / Dusun (Kina Balu). 19. Dusun Handicraft. (12 figs) 20. New Butterflies from Kina-Balu. (8 figs) 21. Kina-Balu, from near Melankup. 22. Kadyan Woman (Labuan) / Sulu Islanders (Palawan). 23. Sulu Graves. Palawan. 24. Bukit Kalamutan. Palawan. 25. [Butterflies] Radena vulgaris / Euripus euploeoides / Papilio macaristus / Elymnias lais / Nepheronia lutescens. 26. Oriolus Vulneratus / Prioniturus Cyaneiceps. 27. View from Kina-Balu (8,000 ft) S.E. 28. Summit of Kina-Balu, from 8,000 ft, S.W. 29. Kina-Balu from the Kinokok (from S.W.) 30.[Bird] Harpactes Whiteheadi. 31. New Kina Balu Beetles. (12 figs) 32. The 'Mantok' (Sciurus whiteheadi) / The 'Nampungher' (Hylomys suillus dorsalis).
