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l_raty reacted to Jim LeNomenclatoriste's post in the thread Gruiformes and Charadriiformes with
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l_raty replied to the thread Gruiformes and Charadriiformes.A lot of Linnaeus' knowledge came from the earlier literature rather than from a personal experience of the birds. It was not that...
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l_raty replied to the thread Gruiformes and Charadriiformes."Sandläuffer", actually -- literally, "sand-walker" or "sand-runner". But sandpiper is probably a good approximation. Note that he wrote...
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l_raty replied to the thread Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names.By the way, I still lack an explanation for the "two versions" conundrum in the "thirteenth" ed. (Gmelin), which we ran into here. If...
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l_raty replied to the thread Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names.Using this as a guide : (It seems the Google link I gave yesterday was actually to the seventh ed., which appeared on the same year and...
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l_raty replied to the thread Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names.Now, the apparition of "Procellaria" in Linnaeus' publications was actually earlier than the 6th ed. of Systema naturae. Linnaeus...
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l_raty replied to the thread Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names.Copies can be downloaded from Google Books or from sub.uni-goettingen. Edit - The Google Books version is actually the 7th edition, see...
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Oh, thank you very much! This is exactly what I was looking for!
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l_raty replied to the thread Brhlík taka.Taka seems to be a local name for this bird. (Not a Slovak word at all, thus. This word doesn't seem to exist in Slovak.) E.g. ...
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l_raty replied to the thread AOU-NACC Proposals 2024.From descriptions, martinicensis and gadeloupensis don't really seem to have shared the colour of rufescens... (A specimen of...
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l_raty replied to the thread Common Magpie ssp. galliae."Due to clinal character of variation in Eurasia, boundaries between races hard to define. In nominate pica from southern Sweden, rump...
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l_raty replied to the thread Taxonomy in-flux updates.It's likely that we discussed a few similar case over the years. The case of Myiophila is slightly different, because this name had...
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l_raty replied to the thread Taxonomy in-flux updates.No. To fix the type of a genus-group name, you need a type designation, i.e., a statement that a given nominal species is the type of...