Small comment on meiffrenii (1 Viewer)

Taphrospilus

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• Mar 23, 2017

• #1

No doubt HBW key is correct on meiffrenii. Here OD.

Just want to add that he was as well a politician and mayor from Arles from 1824 till 1830. Here with picture. As well Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur here p.12.

Just want to combine it with the discussion here:

Taphrospilus said:

I am still curious where his collection was sold to?.

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Taphrospilus

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• Mar 24, 2017

• #2

Here more about his political career.

 

Taphrospilus

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• Mar 27, 2017

• #3

I am wondering why no bird contains Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren de Laugier as author. E.g. in OD Circus maurus is only a Temm. but the book was published under both names. I agree that baron Meiffren de Laugiers input may minimal. But do we not have a similar example with Sephanoides sephaniodes a bird attributed to Lesson & Garnot, 1827?

 

mb1848

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• Mar 27, 2017

• #4

"Temminck did the nomenclatorial and descriptive part of the work, while Baron Laugier took care of the administrative part of the project (Stresemann, 1951)." "Stresemann, E. 1951. Histoire des origines des ‘Planches Coloriées’ de Temminck et Laugier, L'oiseau et la revue Française d'ornithologie, 21: 33–47." Mearns and Mearns Biography for birdwatchers, says all the names are Temminck's.
http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/148494 .

 

Taphrospilus

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• Mar 28, 2017

• #5

Yes, I know and similar is written in Die Entwicklung der Ornithologie von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart from Stresemann. But if I compare the Lesson & Garnot case this was treated similar in the past that only Lesson was considered as the author. For some reason (I assume according the code) this was adjusted.