• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Search results

  1. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    "This is what Browning & Monroe wrote" Thanks Laurent I have no access to that article. I have no argument with McMillan but some of the details in Browning and Monroe are incorrect but this was published prior to the creation of BHL. It appears that from 1835 to 1841 there were 5 parts...
  2. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    An advertisment of a bookseller (1843) of Swainson's Ornithological Drawings Birds of Brazil. Catalogues of books . Page 64. Says 7 parts. sec.2:pt.1-4=pp.1-943 [A-Byzos] - Index animalium - Biodiversity Heritage Library . Sherborn 1922. Says 6 parts? Coues says 1834 to1841! pt. 2-3 -...
  3. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Zoonomen says E. unicolor LaFesnaye is the type of Geospizopsis Bp. as does SACC. But I cannot see why? t.42 (1856) - Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences - Biodiversity Heritage Library . Phrygilus is a Cabanis name used by Tschudi in 1844. Jahrg.10:Bd.1-2 (1844)...
  4. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    A new genus or species name? AOU used Haplaspiza rustica but DelHoyo and Birds of the World use Spodiornis rusticus. But if you put unicolor out of Haplaspiza might as well get a new genus name.
  5. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Spiza unicolor Lichtenstein 1854 Nomenclator avium Musei zoologici berolinensis - Biodiversity Heritage Library . Cabanis 1851 OD : T.1 (1850-1851) - Museum Heineanum - Biodiversity Heritage Library . Phrygilus unicolor Burmeister 1857 but Burmeister conflates H. unicolor and G. unicolor? T.3...
  6. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Corydospiza 1872 Methodi naturalis avium disponendarum tentamen. Försök till fogelklassens naturenliga uppställnung CJ Sundeval BHL says: Stockholm, Samson & Wallin, 1872[-73] Details - Methodi naturalis avium disponendarum tentamen. Försök till fogelklassens naturenliga uppställnung...
  7. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Kirk I think you are referring to Heisenberg's related concept of the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the systems, that is, without changing something in a system.
  8. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Thank you for this link, THE FERN https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/238300#page/301/mode/1up . https://books.google.com/books?id=o-SfAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false .
  9. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Rauenia ”Type by original designation: Loxia bonariensis Gmelin, 1789" Here is a fair use quote from Wolters: . http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10286#page/351/mode/1up . http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105231#page/163/mode/1up .
  10. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    James Vanderbeek "Van" Remsen, Jr. is his name. Its not Van-Remsen. He may be related to James Vanderbeek the actor.
  11. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Shouldn't it be The Yellow-green Chlorospingus is neither a Chlorospingus nor a sparrow? From NACC 2014-A-7 proposal which passed. It started life as a Brush-Finch Baurremon flavovirens although Lawrence said In its almost uniformity of color seems to differs from all other species in the genus...
  12. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    "Available names for Asian Barbets : Xantholaema" The genus name Xantholoema Bonaparte is one month older than Xantholaema. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48136#page/140/mode/1up . Page 12 of Conspectus volucrum zygodactylorum is May 1854...
  13. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    There is a Malacothraupis casteneiceps Chapman 1901. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/726//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B014a19.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y . Molina Fringilla Diuca: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127570#page/255/mode/1up .
  14. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    "the name Sporathraupis is available for the blue capped." http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop569.htm . Comments from Areta: “Since this proposal was written, a recent relevant paper by Barker et al. (2015) has appeared. Despite some important changes in the phylogenetic position of the...
  15. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    So the reference of Nephelornithidae in the ToC to Pardusco does not make it not a nomen nudem? Here is a publication which shows that Nephelornithidae and Poospizinae were published April 1980 but are probably from different Bogen...
  16. mb1848

    Thraupidae

    Wagler in 1830 used Sphaenops for an amphibian genus. http://books.google.com/books?id=L6U-AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false . page 161. Sphenops was one letter close to Wagler so not available in 19th Century? But is OK now? Sclater probably emended to Sphenopsis? Sphenopsis...
Back
Top