Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Maybe something additional on yet another guy and eponym stumbled upon ...
dyotti as in:
• the invalid subspecies "Sula serrator dyotti" MATHEWS 1913 (here); no dedication, nor explanation, the only clue being: "Type, Tasmania, 10th December, 1899"* [Syn. Australian Gannet (Sula) Morus serrator GRAY 1843]
• the invalid subspecies "Ptiloris paradisea dyotti" MATHEWS 1915 (here); same situation; no dedication, nor explanation, only clue: "Type, Cairns, North Queensland" [Syn. Victoria's Riflebird (Lophorina) Ptiloris victoriae GOULD 1850]
In today's HBW Alive Key explained as:
*NOTE: Year doesn´t fit with the collection of the type specimen of "his" Gannet (at least not according to the OD). But on the other hand there´s nothing (in the OD) indicating that Mathews's reason to name it after Dyott, was that he´d collected that certain specimen, Dyott could have supplied Mathews with additional ones (that convinced him?), who knows... as usual with Mr. Mathews there´s very little indicating anything. Note that Mr. Dyott did shoot two "Sula serrator" on the 10th of December, in 1909 (if we´re to trust his own words in Travels in Australasia, p.345) ... !!!
Simply a typo by Mathews, in the OD ... or a Printers error?
Who "Robert Dyott" was? When he was born, or died? I haven´t got a clue!
Thereby; take the above for what it´s worth!
Björn
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dyotti as in:
• the invalid subspecies "Sula serrator dyotti" MATHEWS 1913 (here); no dedication, nor explanation, the only clue being: "Type, Tasmania, 10th December, 1899"* [Syn. Australian Gannet (Sula) Morus serrator GRAY 1843]
• the invalid subspecies "Ptiloris paradisea dyotti" MATHEWS 1915 (here); same situation; no dedication, nor explanation, only clue: "Type, Cairns, North Queensland" [Syn. Victoria's Riflebird (Lophorina) Ptiloris victoriae GOULD 1850]
In today's HBW Alive Key explained as:
.... which could possibly, maybe commemorate the British Major Richard Archibald Dyott, of Freeford Hall (today Freeford Manor), Lichfield, Staffordshire, collector of various Naturalia, (insects, fishes birds etc.) and ethnographic items, in Australia 1906-1910 (incl. Tasmania in 1909*), but also on New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, The Solomons, New Zealand and Ceylon (the latter on his journey home). He also wrote the book Travels in Australasia (1912), here, under the pseudonym "Wandandian" [Wandandia was the base for Dyott during his visit in NSW (also a local, native word maning "home of lost lovers")].dyotti
Robert Dyott (fl. 1913) Australian collector, field ornithologist (syn. Morus serrator, syn. Ptiloris victoriae).
*NOTE: Year doesn´t fit with the collection of the type specimen of "his" Gannet (at least not according to the OD). But on the other hand there´s nothing (in the OD) indicating that Mathews's reason to name it after Dyott, was that he´d collected that certain specimen, Dyott could have supplied Mathews with additional ones (that convinced him?), who knows... as usual with Mr. Mathews there´s very little indicating anything. Note that Mr. Dyott did shoot two "Sula serrator" on the 10th of December, in 1909 (if we´re to trust his own words in Travels in Australasia, p.345) ... !!!
Simply a typo by Mathews, in the OD ... or a Printers error?
Who "Robert Dyott" was? When he was born, or died? I haven´t got a clue!
Thereby; take the above for what it´s worth!
Björn
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