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  1. l_raty

    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...
  2. l_raty

    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"...
  3. l_raty

    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...
  4. l_raty

    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...
  5. l_raty

    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...
  6. l_raty

    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...
  7. l_raty

    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.
  8. l_raty

    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
  9. l_raty

    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...
  10. l_raty

    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...
  11. l_raty

    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...
  12. l_raty

    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...
  13. l_raty

    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...
  14. l_raty

    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...
  15. l_raty

    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...
  16. l_raty

    Coracopsis vasa drouhardi Lavauden, 1929

    Is this really him...? This guy is described as the employee of a local company.
  17. l_raty

    Coracopsis vasa drouhardi Lavauden, 1929

    Yes, but finding it doesn't seem straightforward. (Google Books apparently has it, but doesn't allow any view : Bulletin de l'Académie malgache)
  18. l_raty

    Coracopsis vasa drouhardi Lavauden, 1929

    Journal Officiel de Madagascar et dépendances, 10 Mar 1906 : here (as "Eugène"). Journal Officiel de Madagascar et dépendances, 4 Jul 1908 : here (as "Eugène"). Journal Officiel de Madagascar et dépendances, 14 Feb 1914 : here (as "Eugène-Jean"). Journal Officiel de Madagascar et dépendances...
  19. l_raty

    Coracopsis vasa drouhardi Lavauden, 1929

    Marriage (x Jeanne Séraphine Hortense Morot), 30 May 1896, Byans-sur-Doubs, Doubs : here, 100/117. As "Jean Eugène". He was described as an industrialist here. Daughter: Madeleine Gabrielle Drouhard, born 10 Sep 1900, Saône, Doubs : here, 62/64. She died on 4 Oct 1993 in Menton...
  20. l_raty

    Coracopsis vasa drouhardi Lavauden, 1929

    His birth is here, 8/73. As "Jean Eugène", not the other way around. Record dated 7 Sep 1874, but born 6 Sep.
  21. l_raty

    Doctor Luchs and "his" two Birds … in German, and Polish!

    This says [...] 3 Jan 1886 - 74 years 4 months = 3 Sep 1811.
  22. l_raty

    Bucconidae

    Thanks, Vitor. Cuvier's work was really published in 1816, though. ;) (The four volumes of the work were presented to the Académie in Paris on 02 Dec 1816 : Procès-verbaux des séances de l'Académie tenues depuis la fondation de l'Institut jusqu'au mois d'août 1835 : publiés conformément à une...
  23. l_raty

    Bucconidae

    Cuvier "1817" = 1816 : https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1844939 In the text (where he merely described the group), Cuvier only used "Les Tamatias" (an obvious pural French vernacular). At the end of the description, he added a footnote, which read: Thus he included four (not two)...
  24. l_raty

    apetzii

    I guess this may be related. But, still, I'm not used to see a person's name being adjusted after his or her baptism...? I'd make it Marie Luise in this record. She's mentioned in his death record as well -- Sohn des Professors Johann Heinrich Apetz und dessen Ehefrau Marie geborene Thienemann...
  25. l_raty

    BOW Key

    Schlegel wrote it as two words freti hudsonis (adopting it from Brisson, whose species-group names are not available), but the Code treats this type of name as a compound word, which must be written as one. Article 32. Original spellings | International Code of Zoological Nomenclature :
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