ABOVE: Pen-tailed Treeshrew Ptilocercus lowii feeding on the alcoholic nectar of Eugeissona insignis palm flowers at Matang near Kuching, Sarawak. Illustration by Karen Phillipps.
Illustration by Joseph Wolf (1820 – 1899) of the type specimen of Ptilocercus lowii collected in Rajah James Brooke’s bungalow on the bank of the Sarawak River at Kuching and named by the zoologist J E Gray in honor of the botanist Hugh Low – Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1848.