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Accipiter superciliosus fontainieri Bonaparte, 1853 OD here
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See also discussion here. We can find this spelling also on p. 832 here
The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals and The Eponym Dictionary of Birds ignores the fact of the different spelling.
I would be careful as James as I found no evidence either that he was ever in Colombia or New Granada. But of couse it may just a misspelling of Bonaparte. Maybe it will be solved here.
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"M. Fontainier vient d'en rapporter une espèce qui devra porter son nom (Accipiter Fontainieri) si elle est nouvelle" (Bonaparte 1853); "the type [rufous ☼] examined in the Paris Museum was obtained by M. Fontanier at Santa Cruz, Magdalena, Colombia; ...the name was, in accordance with the discoverer's (Fontanier) orthography, corrected in ...1854" (Hellmayr & Conover 1949). ?Henri-Victor Fontanier (1830-1870) French diplomat (I have yet to find evidence that he was in Colombia in the early 1850s) (subsp. Microspizias superciliosus).
See also discussion here. We can find this spelling also on p. 832 here
or p. 807 hereFontainier vient de rapporter de Guaripata une magnifique espèce nouvelle que j'appellerai : ...
...qui vient d'être rapporté au Muséum, par M. Fontainier...
The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals and The Eponym Dictionary of Birds ignores the fact of the different spelling.
Tiny Hawk ssp. Accipiter superciliosus fontanieri Bonaparte, 1853
Henri Victor Fontanier (1830–1870) was in Colombia (c.1850) before becoming the French Consul at Tientsin in China (1870), combining that job with collecting for the Paris Museum On 21 June 1870 a crowd of locally prominent representatives at Tianjin (Tientsin) marched (1870) on a Roman Catholic orphanage run by French and Belgian nuns (the French Sisters of Charity), accusing them of kidnapping children and taking their eyes to make medicine. The crowd demanded to search for the truth. Fontanier lost his temper and fired into the crowd, killing the District Magistrate's servant. The xenophobic Chinese mob attacked, killing 24 foreigners, including Fontanier and the nuns, mutilating their bodies. Two mammals are named after him. We believe he might have been the son of another French naturalist, Victor Fontanier (1796–1857), a pharmacist who was sent out by the French government as an envoy to the Persian Gulf 1834) and wrote Voyage in the Indian Archipelago (1852).
I would be careful as James as I found no evidence either that he was ever in Colombia or New Granada. But of couse it may just a misspelling of Bonaparte. Maybe it will be solved here.