Minor on Chloris kittlitzi (Seebohm, 1890) and others (1 Viewer)

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Chloris kittlitzi (Seebohm, 1890) OD ser.6:v.2=no.5-8 (1890) - Ibis - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Bonin Island Greenfinch was discovered by Kittlitz in 1828, but was not regarded by its discoverer as distinct from European species.

Kittlitzia Hartlaub, 1891 OD v.12 1891-1893 - Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen - Biodiversity Heritage Library

Calornis kittlitzi Finsch & Hartlaub, 1867 OD Beitrag zur fauna Centralpolynesiens - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Erythrura kittlitzi Bonaparte, 1850 OD t.1 (1850) - Conspectus generum avium - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Gygis alba kittlitzi Hartert, 1891 OD Katalog der Vogelsammlung in Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Zosterops kittlitzi Finsch, 1880 OD ser.4:Jahrg.28=no.149-152 (1880) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Aegialitis pecuarius Kitlitzii Reichenbach, 1851 Abt.3:Bd.2 [Atlas 2] (1836) - Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel - Biodiversity Heritage Library Fig 1063 Aegialitis pecuarius Kitlitzii Reichenbach , Vollst . Naturg . Vög . , Grallatores , Taf . CV ( 185 ) , Fig . 1063 ( 1851— Nach A. B. Meyer , Index zu Reich . Werken , p . 28 ) Not sure where to find.
Columba kitlitzii Temminck, 1836 v.4 (1838) - Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux - Biodiversity Heritage Library (Not in BOW key?)
Chroicocephalus kitlitzii , Bruch, 1853 Jahrg.1-2=no.1-12;Suppl.:Jahrg.1 (1853-1854) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Not sure where to find syn. Larus pipixcan,?
Uria Kittlitzii Brandt Icon . Av . Amer . rossic . tab . 7 , fig . 4 . p . 277 Jahrg.7-8=no.37-48 (1859-1860) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library (No idea where to find Brandts publication and which year

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Crake genus Kittlitzia Hartlaub, 1892 NCR [Now in Porzana]
Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius Temminck, 1823 [Alt. Kittlitz's Sand Plover]
Kittlitz's Murrelet Brachyramphus brevirostris Vigors, 1829
Kittlitz's Thrush Zoothera errestris Kittlitz, 1830 EXTINCT [Alt. Bonin Thrush]
Kittlitz's Wood Pigeon Columba versicolor Kittlitz, 1832 EXTINCT [Alt. Bonin Wood Pigeon, Bonin Black Pigeon]
Kittlitz's Starling Aplonis corvina Kittlitz, 1833 EXTINCT [Alt. Kosrae Starling]
Gull sp. Chroicocephalus kittlitzii Bruch, 1853 NCR [Alt. Franklin's Gull; JS Leucophaeus pipixcan]
Kittlitz's Crake Porzana monasa Kittlitz, , 1858 EXTINCT [Alt. Kosrae Crake]
White-eye sp. White-eye sp. Zosterops kittlitzi Finsch, 1880 NCR [Alt. Grey-brown White-eye; JS Zosterops cinereus]
Oriental Greenfinch ssp. Carduelis sinica kittlitzi Seebohm, 1890
White Tern ssp. Gygis alba kittlitzi Hartert, 1891 NCR [JS Gygis alba candida]
Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz (1799–1874) was a Polish-born German artist, naval officer, explorer and ornithologist. He undertook a round-the-world journey, the Senjawin Expedition (1826–1829), during which specimens of the now-extinct bird species listed above were collected. Based on this voyage, Kittlitz wrote Twenty-Four Views of the Vegetation of Coasts and Islands of the Pacific (English edition, 1861). He was a friend of Eduard Rüppell (q.v.) and accompanied him to North Africa (1831), but due to poor health he had to return to Germany.

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Capt. Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz (1799-1874) Prussian Army, explorer, artist, ornithologist (syn. Aplonis opaca, subsp. Chloris sinica, syn. Erythrura trichroa, syn. Gygis alba candida, syn. Zosterops cinereus) (see kittlitzii).

Capt. Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz (1799-1874) Prussian Army, explorer, artist, ornithologist.
• ‡ (Sturnidae; syn. Aplonis † Kosrae Starling A. corvina) "1093. Kittlitzia corvina (Kittl.) 131) ... 131) ... Ich bin nicht geneigt, das Genus Aplonis anzuerkennen, wie ja Sharpe selbst auch (l. c., p. 125) seine Zweifel an dem Werte desselben ausspricht. Ein nicht scharf ausgeprägtes Genus hat für mich im Allgemeinen keinen Wert. Indessen glaube ich wohl, dass man diese langschnäblige Calornis (die nach Sharpe's Definition nicht zu Calornis, sondern zu Aplonis gehören würde) wird generisch sondern müssen. ... Ich schlage für die Art den Gattungsnamen Kittlitzia vor, zu Ehren des Ornithologen Bar. v. Kittlitz" (Hartert 1891); "Kittlitzia Hartert, 1891, Kat. Vog. Mus. Senckenberg., p. 75, note. Type, by monotypy, Lamprothornis corvina Kittlitz." (Amadon in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 75).
• ‡ (Rallidae; syn. Zapornia † Kosrae Crake Z. monasa) "Wenngleich v. Kittlitz seinem Rallus monasa mit grossem Unrecht das Vorhandensein wirklicher Steuerfedern abspricht, der Vogel aber keineswegs schwanzlos ist, so ist er doch nahezu flugunfähig, denn seine weichen widerstandslosen Schwingen erscheinen zu richtigem Fliegen nicht tauglich. Es handelt sich hier also um eine neue und sehr interessante Form, die ich zu Ehren ihres Entdeckers, eines der ausgezeichnetsten Naturforscher aller Zeiten Kittlitzia n. g. benennen möchte." (Hartlaub 1892); "Kittlitzia Hartlaub, Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, 12, 1891, p. 391. Type, by monotypy, Rallus monasa Kittlitz. Not Kittlitzia Hartert, 1891." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 188).

Capt. Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz (1799-1874) Prussian Army, explorer, artist, ornithologist (syn. Brachyramphus brevirostris, syn. Charadrius pecuarius, syn. Larus pipixcan, syn. Saundersilarus saundersi) (see kittlitzi).

I opened this thread only as I am wondering if he has had an additional name as mentioned in German Wikipedia Heinrich von Kittlitz – Wikipedia . So Wilhelm really an additional name or wrong in Wikipedia? Here Reisen an den Rand des Russischen Reiches even as Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz und Ottendorf . Or German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries) with Wilhelm. Or Freiherr Wilhelm Friedrich August von Kittlitz und Ottendorf

 

[mb1848]

Most of his publications he is F. H. v. Kittlitz. But on Geni it has Wilhelm in his name and his Father.
Freiherr Wilhelm Friedrich August von Kittlitz und Ottendorf . His Mother is a half sister of a Russian Field Marshall .

 

[Taphrospilus]

Nach A. B. Meyer , Index zu Reich . Werken , p . 28 Index zu L. Reichenbach's ornithologischen Werken

So only missing are:
Not sure where to find syn. Larus pipixcan? Or is Syn. Chroicocephalus saundersi missing? Or is it Chroicocephalus kittlitzii , Swinhoe, 1863 v.5=no.17-20 (1863) - Ibis - Biodiversity Heritage Library (as Taiwan and Bruch Chile)? By the way Bruch even himself doubted his introduced name Jahrg.3-4=no.13-24 (1855-1856) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library

Ich rechne zu diesen Mischbildungen auch die Exemplare mit schwarzem Saume an den weissen Schwingen, wie selbst die Möve, die ich früher in meinen Aufstellungen unter dem Namen L. Kittlitzii aufgeführt hatte und nun ferner nicht mehr in Anregung bringe.

Later Jahrg.13=no.73-78 (1865) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library a hyprid Larus masculipennis Licht. and glaucotis Meyen

Uria Kittlitzii Brandt, 1837 Icon . Av . Amer . rossic . tab . 7 , fig . 4 . p . 277 Jahrg.7-8=no.37-48 (1859-1860) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library (No idea where to find Brandts publication and which year) => Seems to be here v.1-5 (1835-1839) - Bulletin Scientifique / Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg - Biodiversity Heritage Library

=> Columba kitlitzii Temminck, 1836: livr. 98, no plate.= Columba versicolor Kittlitz, 1832.

 

[PScofield]

Attached his baptism & death certificates

 

[l_raty]

Attached his baptism & death certificates

No 'Wilhelm' in sight, thus.
"Friedrich Heinrich Julius Ludwig" in the baptism record, where the crossed-out names are presumably to be ignored.
"Friedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz" in the death record.

No 'Wilhelm' in his father's name either in these documents ("Friedrich August Baron v. Kittlitz" in the birth record, "Friedrich August Freiherr von Kittlitz" in the death record).

 

[Taphrospilus]

And no von Kittlitz und Ottendorf.

 

[JustinJansen]

Just an odd question: as this is obviously von Kittlitz, why is only Kittlitz used, in the descriptions for new species as in post #1?

 

[l_raty]

Just an odd question: as this is obviously von Kittlitz, why is only Kittlitz used, in the descriptions for new species as in post #1?

I have always been uncertain about the rule that is applied in German.

In French, a nobiliary particle ("de") makes the junction between a given name or title, and the family name; it is not normally understood as an integral part of the family name. Thus we always write "Buffon" (not "de Buffon") when the family name stands alone -- even though it would be "George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon", "Monsieur de Buffon", or "le comte de Buffon". (There are some exceptions to that rule, however, which mainly involve cases where the particle is elided, where the particle is contracted with an article, and where the name itself is a monosyllabic -- in these cases, the particle tends to be retained. Hence, e.g., "d'Orbigny" but "Lafresnaye" or "La Fresnaye" (no "de"), "Du Bus", etc.)

English has traditionally given a similar treatment to German eponymous names, e.g. "Kittlitz's Plover", "Heuglin's Gull", "Berlepsch's Tinamou", "Spix's Macaw", "Bear's Pochard", "Homeyer's Grey Shrike", etc., all with the "von" omitted. There was a recent move from "Schrenk's Bittern" to "Von Schrenk's Bittern", though, which I never fully understood (and do not usually follow).

 

[PScofield]

This is an interesting subject that harks back to the renaming issue for slave owners and others of dubious morals. It also demonstrates the arbitrary nature of these decisions. My observations are that, of course von is an honourific like Sir or Lord. It is simply positioned after the Christian name unlike the English honours. If we are going to use Kittlitz's plover then we should, by rights, use Derby's parakeet (not Lord Derby's) or even just Stanley's Parakeet for Psittacula derbiana and I am sure there are several other examples. Another issue here is that I believe that Kittlitz and Schrenk were Prussian nobles. So effectively they were nobles of a non existent country by the time of their death. This is almost as absurd as calling yourself a Jedi knight. An interesting additional issue exists for Austrian nobles as the nobility was disestablished in 1919 and it was illegal to use the von in Austria. Some got around this, I believe by changing their surnames to include the Von. I am not sure if there are any Austrian nobels in the etymological lists? As an aside in New Zealand it illegal to name a baby Lord or Princess but elsewhere anything goes.

 

[Taphrospilus]

August Pelzel von Pelzeln but long dead before 1919. Robert von Dombrowski. Not sure how to interpret Renate van den Elzen née Wichtl.

By the way The Key to Scientific Names - Birds of the World may need correction. See Renate van den Elzen – Wikipedia

 

[PScofield]

Regarding Renate van den Elzen yes she was/is Austrian but the wiki is in error her husband was Paul van den Elzen a Dutch/ Boer South African I believe and "van den" is not an honourific but descriptive.

 

[mb1848]

"Von Schrenk's Bittern" I agree with Laurent. I like how he is named in modern Russia. (Leopold Ivanovich) Schrenck.
https://www.researchgate.net/public..._1826-1894_and_his_contribution_to_malacology At the time of his master thesis he was Leopold Schrenk. Im in favor of getting rid of this common name but I cannot think of a good name based on its Latin species name.
From the Key: eurhythma / eurhythmusGr. ευρυθμος eurhuthmos graceful, well-proportioned < eu fine; ῥυθμος rhuthmos harmony, form; “The adult is a beautiful bird, which, combined with the striking character of the immature dress (no common feature amongst birds), suggests the name Ardetta eurhythma for this species” (Swinhoe 1873) (Ixobrychus).
ser.3:v.3=no.9-12;Suppl.:v.3 (1873) - Ibis - Biodiversity Heritage Library .
Bd.1 (1858) - Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 1854-1856 - Biodiversity Heritage Library .

 

[mb1848]

PScofield said "This is an interesting subject that harks back to the renaming issue for slave owners and others of dubious morals"
US Constitytion:
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Now I am looking for the comsent of Congress which allowed Elvis to be the King. Thaank you very much.

 

[PScofield]

Interesting Mark

The following have all received honourary knighthoods from QE 2. Does this mean that these people are in breach of the US Constitution?

George H W Bush GCB
Dwight D Eisenhower GCB
Bill Gates KBE
Melinda Gates DBE
Mark Getty KBE
Paul Getty KBE
Billy Graham KBE
J Edgar Hoover KBE
Bob Hope KBE
Angelina Jolie DCMG
Ralph Lauren KBE
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin KBE
André Previn KBE
Ronald Reagan GCB
Dame Marjorie Scardino DBE
Steven Spielberg KBE
Angelina Jolie KCMG

What is the penalty?

I assume, therefore, that if you become a US citizen and sign the declaration giving up allegiance to a foreign monarch you also give up your title.

Must be a few US citizens on the list with "vons".

 

[Taphrospilus]

"Von Schrenk's Bittern" I agree with Laurent. I like how he is named in modern Russia. (Leopold Ivanovich) Schrenck.

In German something like Manchuria Bittern (a name I do not like either as his distribution is not restricted to Manchuria). But may have derived from Bd.1 (1858) - Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 1854-1856 - Biodiversity Heritage Library as it was referenced by Swinhoe.

 

[JustinJansen]

In Dutch, but sure also in German language often, and I'm sure in Dutch, a name like van der Elzen, or de Ruiter has nothing at all to do with nobility...... it (van der and de as example) is part of the surname.

 

[mb1848]

"Interesting Mark"
Someone is not knighted into royalty. Knighthood isn’t royalty; it’s below the peerage. Americans can receive honorary knighthoods, but not substantive knighthoods. That is not American law, it is British law. Only British citizens can receive substantive titles. American law, however, does not prevent Americans from receiving honorary knighthoods or other honorary honours. So no Americans can call themselves Sir or Dame.