Dr. Carl Constantin Platen

PLATEN was medicine and went to Amoy, Indonesia in 1878. There he collected together with his wife between 1873 and 1894 on the indo-malayan islands, 1878 S-Celebes, 1880 Borneo, 1881 Borneo, Amboina, Ceram, 1882 Batjan, Amboina, 1883 Halmahera, Waigeo, 1884 Malacca, Borneo, Moluccas, Waigeo, 1884/86 N Celebes Minahassa, 1886/87 Sulu-Islands, Palawan, 1887/92 Philippines, 1892/94 Mindoro, Batjan. Almost blind and deaf PLATEN returned to Germany in 1894. The bird collection was studied and published by W. BLASIUS. Parts of the collection came to the museum in Braunschweig or was sold to SCHLÜTER in Halle.

Lit.:
HORN et al., 1990: Collectiones entomologicae. Berlin. 306 f.
PLATEN & PLATEN, 1879: Reiseskizzen aus Süd-Celebes Gefiederte Welt 8.
PLATEN & PLATEN, 1887: Ornithologische Skizzen aus dem Minahassa. Gefiederte Welt 16.
PLATEN & PLATEN, 1887: Der Fledermauspapagei - Coryllis catamene Schl. Gefiederte Welt 16.
GEBHARDT L., 1964: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Giessen, 277 ff.
GEBHARDT L, 1970: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. Bd. 2. J. Orn. 111, Sh. 181 ff.
STRESEMANN E., 1939: Die Vögel von Celebes. J. Orn. 87: 299-425.
WICHMANN A., 1912: Nova Guinea 2/2. Leiden, 830 f.

Pers. comm.: J. HEVERS, Braunschweig, Germany

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