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I thought Elliott Coues is perfectly solved but with German Wikipedia as Samuel Elliott Coues and English Wikipedia as Elliott Ladd Coues plus The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claim we have several options:
One obituary we can find e.g. in The Auk here
So is there an additional name and if yes which is the correct one?
The Key to Scientific NamesCoues's Flycatcher Contopus pertinax Cabanis & Heine, 1859 [Alt. Greater Pewee]
Coues's Arctic Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni exilipes Coues, 1862 [Alt. Hoary Redpoll ssp.]
Coues's Gadwall Anas strepera couesi Streets, 1876 EXTINCT
Rock Sandpiper ssp. Calidris ptilocnemis couesi Ridgway, 1880
Cactus Wren ssp. Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus couesi Sharpe, 1882
Dr Elliott B. Coues (pronounced 'cows'; 1842–1899) was a US Army Surgeon and one of the founders of the American Ornithologists' Union. Coues collected a warbler and asked Baird (q.v.) to name it in honour of his sister, Grace Darlington Coues (q.v.), hence Grace's Warbler. He is also the person who named the sandpiper after Baird. Amongst other works he wrote Handbook of Field and General Ornithology (1890), in which he set out in meticulous detail how to 'collect' and preserve birds, A Checklist of North American Birds (1873) and the 5-volume Key to North American Birds (1872–1903). Three mammals are named after him.
Capt. Dr Elliott Coues (1842-1899) US Army surgeon 1863-1881, Professor of Anatomy, Columbian University 1882-1887, ornithologist, collector, spiritualist (subsp. Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus, subsp. Calidris ptilocnemis, syn. Garrodia nereis, ‡subsp. Mareca strepera, syn. Puffinus opisthomelas).
One obituary we can find e.g. in The Auk here
- Anas strepera couesi Streets, 1876 OD here
- Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus couesi Sharpe, 1882 OD here
- Calidris ptilocnemis couesi (Ridgway, 1880) OD here
- Oceanites nereis couesi Mathews, 1912 OD here
- Puffinus couesi Mathews , 1912 OD here
So is there an additional name and if yes which is the correct one?