Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Here´s some possibly new, additional details (and a birth year) regarding the eponym ...
vanwyckii as in:
• subspecies Ducula pistrinaria vanwyckii CASSIN 1862 (here) as "Carpophaga Van Wyckii":
More on Mr. Van Wyck; see (for example) the following links; here, here or here. (in the latter, far down the text, search for "Wyck")
Enjoy!
Björn
vanwyckii as in:
• subspecies Ducula pistrinaria vanwyckii CASSIN 1862 (here) as "Carpophaga Van Wyckii":
Today's HBW Alive Key gives us:To this handsome bird we have great gratification in giving a name in honor of its discoverer, the late Lieut. Van Wyck of the United States Navy. To the enterprise and scientific taste of this lamented gentleman we are indebted for a very valuable portion of the present extensive collection, and he was deservedly esteemed as one of the most talented and promising young officers of the naval service. His early death, on the passage homeward of the U. S. Brig Porpoise, is, assuredly, to be deplored as a loss to science and to his country.
= Lieutenant William W. Van Wyck (1824–1854), US Navy, Acting Master on the US Brig Porpoise for the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition (1853-1856). The Porpoise and all of its crew (incl. Lt. Van Wyck) was lost at sea sometime in late September 1854 (... but the Expedition itself kept going!)vanwyckii
Lt. William Van Wyck (d. 1854) US Navy on USS Porpoise, lost with all hands during a typhoon in the Formosa Straits (subsp. Ducula pistrinaria).
More on Mr. Van Wyck; see (for example) the following links; here, here or here. (in the latter, far down the text, search for "Wyck")
Enjoy!
Björn