Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Karpov's ring-necked pheasant ... and possibly, maybe also "his" invalid Pine bunting
I´m way, way out of my league here, but together we´ve solved trickier cases before, so here we go!
To start with, let´s have look at karpowi, as in:
• the subspecies Phasianus colchicus karpowi BUTURLIN 1904 (here) as "Phasianus karpowi" a k a "Korean ring-necked pheasant"
The second eponym is karpovi as in:
• the invalid Pine bunting subspecies "Emberiza leucocephalos karpovi" ZARUDNY 1913 (here)
In my mind the "A. Б. Карпова", mentioned in the OD of the bunting (see foot-note, p.94), does point in the direction that we´re searching for the one and same Captain Karpov/w ...? Or? Maybe both commemorate an unknown, yet another, completely different Karpov/w ... ?!
But before we start discussing transcriptions of Russian names in various ways or languages [the English (and Swedish) Karpov vs the German Karpow] let´s try to find his original Russian name.
Following Mr. Ingram's article The Birds in Manchuria, 1909 (here) I assume we´re looking for a certain "Capt. Karpow, then in the Russian Army", but Ingram gives us yet another clue (on p.434): "... Bianchi has compiled a brief catalogue of the birds collected by Capt. Karpow ... " – which is this one (here).
But it´s all in Russian! And know I´m lost (helped only by the OCR): "Ахпллъ Бонифатьевичъ Карповъ" alt. "Ахпллa Бонифатьевичъ Карповa" (which Google translate turns into: Achilles Bonifatevich Karpov) ... !?
Anyone now know who we´re looking for?
Is it possibly this guy: КАРПОВ, Ахилл Бонифатьевич (1866/1867–1911), Cossack Army Captain, here and here ...?
Helped only by Google Translate I have the feeling that those two links might be dealing with "our" guy. At least he seem to have had some kind of interest in Natural History (i.e. a member of the Russian Entomological Society and the Zoological Museum correspondent to the Academy of Sciences (1902), according to the first of those links).
Is there anyone "out there" who understand more?
Björn
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I´m way, way out of my league here, but together we´ve solved trickier cases before, so here we go!
To start with, let´s have look at karpowi, as in:
• the subspecies Phasianus colchicus karpowi BUTURLIN 1904 (here) as "Phasianus karpowi" a k a "Korean ring-necked pheasant"
Today's HBW Alive Key brief explanation of this Eponym is (simply following the above quote, I assume):... den Typus dieser species, hat A. W. Karpow den 20. Januar (2. Febr. neuer Styl) 1901 in der südlichen Mandschurei bei Te-lin [...] erlegt und mir liebenswürdig gesandt.
But The Eponym Dictionary of Birds, 2014 (here) says that the Pheasant subspecies commemorate:karpovi / karpowi
● Prof. Vladimir Pavlovich Karpov (1870-1943) Russian biologist, Professor of Histology at Moscow State University 1917 (syn. Emberiza leucocephalos).
● A. W. Karpov (fl. 1901) Russian collector in Manchuria (subsp. Phasianus colchicus).
Something is ovbiously confused as that latter book claim both those eponyms, both the Pheasant karpowi and bunting karpovi, to commemorate the same person.Professor Vladimir Pavlovich Karpov (1870–1943) was a Russian biologist, Professor of Histology at Moscow State University, and was in Manchuria (1901).
The second eponym is karpovi as in:
• the invalid Pine bunting subspecies "Emberiza leucocephalos karpovi" ZARUDNY 1913 (here)
In my mind the "A. Б. Карпова", mentioned in the OD of the bunting (see foot-note, p.94), does point in the direction that we´re searching for the one and same Captain Karpov/w ...? Or? Maybe both commemorate an unknown, yet another, completely different Karpov/w ... ?!
But before we start discussing transcriptions of Russian names in various ways or languages [the English (and Swedish) Karpov vs the German Karpow] let´s try to find his original Russian name.
Following Mr. Ingram's article The Birds in Manchuria, 1909 (here) I assume we´re looking for a certain "Capt. Karpow, then in the Russian Army", but Ingram gives us yet another clue (on p.434): "... Bianchi has compiled a brief catalogue of the birds collected by Capt. Karpow ... " – which is this one (here).
But it´s all in Russian! And know I´m lost (helped only by the OCR): "Ахпллъ Бонифатьевичъ Карповъ" alt. "Ахпллa Бонифатьевичъ Карповa" (which Google translate turns into: Achilles Bonifatevich Karpov) ... !?
Anyone now know who we´re looking for?
Is it possibly this guy: КАРПОВ, Ахилл Бонифатьевич (1866/1867–1911), Cossack Army Captain, here and here ...?
Helped only by Google Translate I have the feeling that those two links might be dealing with "our" guy. At least he seem to have had some kind of interest in Natural History (i.e. a member of the Russian Entomological Society and the Zoological Museum correspondent to the Academy of Sciences (1902), according to the first of those links).
Is there anyone "out there" who understand more?
Björn
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