The lost illustration and others
**The sole biography of Keulemans, Jan Coldewey and Tony Keulemans' Feathers to Brush (Deventer), is now out-of-print. This work includes an extensive bibliography of books and journals which Keulemans draughted illustrations for. As thorough as this listing is, it does not make reference to The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology, for which a "lost" plate has surfaced. (See below). The Journal was a serial published in London, in octavo format, and it was not issued consistently year-to-year, volume XIII being published 1876--1878. Plate XXII, as featured here and not colored, was printed 1878, accompanying the article "On a new Species of Goshawk from the Island of Jobi" as part of the series "Contributions to the Ornithology of New Guinea" (R(ichard) Bowdler Sharpe).
**from The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology; vol. XIII (1878), pl. XXII
Astur (Accipiter) meyerianus.
((not colored))
**Our Rarer Birds
Charles Dixon. Our Rarer Birds; being Studies in Ornithology & Oology. 1888.
This book, in octavo, provides many vivid accounts of the avifauna of Great Britain. It was published by Richard Bentley & Son (London). The frontispiece includes a picture by Keulemans, the St. Kilda Wren (Troglodytes hirtensis). The plate is not colored, and as the author also notes, had originally appeared in the publication The Ibis (1885, plate III).
St. Kilda Wren. (Troglodytes)
((not colored))
**Melliss--St. Helena
St. Helena: A Physical, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Island, Including Its Geology, Fauna, Flora, and Meteorology. John Charles Melliss. L. Reeve & Co., (London), 1875. (octavo)
Melliss (usually cited by his initials) wrote an account of the natural history of the island in this rare work. Plate 18 was the sole illustration of an example of its bird and mammal life; the same print appeared in the journal The Ibis for the year 1873 (plate IX). It depicts a plover known as the "wire bird" on account of its predisposition for skulking among the wire-grass found on St. Helena. The name might also refer its thin legs. The numbers of this particular species have been critically threatened, nearly to the point of extinction.
18 Aegialitis (Charadrius) sanctae-helenae.
**Birds of Lancashire
In 1885, F(rederick) S(haw) Mitchell published his first octavo edition of The Birds of Lancashire (John Van Voorst, London). Mitchell's extensive "Introductory" section is dated for the prior year. Where the plate itself was not numerated, as in the examples below, it was afforded one in the text. Two of the eleven were drawn by Keulemans, and a second edition of Lancashire was issued in 1892, though none of its plates were by him.
[II] Wall Creeper.
Tichodroma muraria.
[I] Black-throated Wheater.
Saxicola (Oenanthe) Stapazina.