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    BOW Key

    Interesting case ;) https://books.google.com/books?id=zHzScFfeJgsC&pg=PA743&dq=nipica The third letter really is a 'd', which the typographer placed upside down. (I.e., physically, it's rotated by 180°, rather than 'inverted and reversed'. The bar, on this letter, has a single serif, as have...
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    Gruiformes and Charadriiformes

    A lot of Linnaeus' knowledge came from the earlier literature rather than from a personal experience of the birds. It was not that infrequent that he changed his mind about the interpretation of some names, which he had adopted from some earlier authors. In the 10th edition, he cited "Tringa"...
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    Gruiformes and Charadriiformes

    "Sandläuffer", actually -- literally, "sand-walker" or "sand-runner". But sandpiper is probably a good approximation. Note that he wrote Ocrophus, not Ochropus. (He used the same spelling in the 10th ed.) The Latin diagnosis of the "58. TRINGA." group says Rostrum digitis brevius (bill shorter...
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    By the way, I still lack an explanation for the "two versions" conundrum in the "thirteenth" ed. (Gmelin), which we ran into here. If anyone has a suggestion...
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Using this as a guide : (It seems the Google link I gave yesterday was actually to the seventh ed., which appeared on the same year and is presented as "secundum sextam editionem", i.e., following the sixth ed. -- sorry about this.) (This file suggests an 11th edition published in 1762 in...
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Now, the apparition of "Procellaria" in Linnaeus' publications was actually earlier than the 6th ed. of Systema naturae. Linnaeus already had this name in the 1st ed. of Fauna svecica (which did appear in 1746, so maybe Coues was mixing up the two works) : (1746) - Caroli Linnaei medic. & botan...
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Copies can be downloaded from Google Books or from sub.uni-goettingen. Edit - The Google Books version is actually the 7th edition, see post #388 below.
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    Brhlík taka

    Taka seems to be a local name for this bird. (Not a Slovak word at all, thus. This word doesn't seem to exist in Slovak.) E.g. : https://books.google.com/books?id=fPDxk551AhkC&pg=PA246&dq=taka+nuthatch https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6MtAAAAMAAJ&q=taka+benguet
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    From descriptions, martinicensis and gadeloupensis don't really seem to have shared the colour of rufescens... (A specimen of martinicensis: Multimedia item - RMNH.AVES.110001_0 | Naturalis Bioportal ) (Ridgway described Troglodytes guadeloupensis [Guadeloupe Wren] as duller than T. rufescens...
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    Parrots

    Wagler placed under Platycercus erythrotis the birds that had been called Psittacus pacificus, var. γ, by Gmelin/Latham, and Platycercus pacificus by Vigors in the Zool. Journ. (the one shown on the supplementary table I), which he called the male of his species; and the birds that had been...
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    Common Magpie ssp. galliae

    "Due to clinal character of variation in Eurasia, boundaries between races hard to define. In nominate pica from southern Sweden, rump mainly light grey, but white or whitish in 4 of 22 adult and 1st adult birds and dark grey in 1 (RMNH, ZFMK, ZMA), rarely blackish (Hartert and Steinbacher...
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    Parrots

    Vigors attributed Platycercus pacificus to Latham; Latham used a broad Psittacus for all psittacids, and the only pacificus he ever used in this genus was taken from Gmelin 1788, who had actually formed it by latinizing Latham's earlier (1781) English name "Pacific Parakeet". In addition to...
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    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    It's likely that we discussed a few similar case over the years. The case of Myiophila is slightly different, because this name had been made available by Reichenbach in 1850 with an illustration only, without associating any nominal species to it. Reichenbach's illustration quite clearly...
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    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    No. To fix the type of a genus-group name, you need a type designation, i.e., a statement that a given nominal species is the type of this name. Placing a name in the synonymy of another one does not make the type of the former the same as that of the latter (even if you designate a type for the...
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    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    No. (So far as I know.) No, in the Code, a genus is supposed to be based on its type species, not on any description. And its type species must be one of the nominal species cited by an available name and included in it, either in the OD or, if there are no such nominal species in the OD, in...
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