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  1. l_raty

    Karpov's ring-necked pheasant ... and possibly, maybe also "his" invalid Pine bunting

    This one actually happens to be online : https://zoomet.ru/failes/Buturlin-1910-R37.djvu ("Thus, the Ussuri (and Sakhalin) birds can easily be distinguished from the Japanese ones, which is why I find it necessary to give them a special name, D. japonicus tscherskii, in honor of the energetic...
  2. l_raty

    Karpov's ring-necked pheasant ... and possibly, maybe also "his" invalid Pine bunting

    There is some info on [this page] (and its sequels, see the links at the bottom) but (as was to be expected) it's in Russian. (And, apparently, "it's complicated"...) So far as I understand, the brothers were both born as Эдуардович. Their father died in 1873, when Эдуард was 20 and Фёдор 15...
  3. l_raty

    Karpov's ring-necked pheasant ... and possibly, maybe also "his" invalid Pine bunting

    In... Корепова ДА. 2015. Каталог орнитологической коллекции с. а. Бутурлина из фондов Ульяновского областного краеведческого музея им. И. А. Гончарова. (Catalogue of the ornithological collection of SA Buturlin from the funds of the Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Core by the name of Ivan...
  4. l_raty

    Karpov's ring-necked pheasant ... and possibly, maybe also "his" invalid Pine bunting

    "Ахиллъ Бонифатьевичъ Карповъ" -- 'п' instead of 'и' is an OCR error. Before the spelling reforms of 1917-18, the hard sign ъ (AKA 'yer' or 'tvyórdy znak') was used in Russian to 'close' any word that would otherwise have ended in a consonant. The letter, when used this way, was entirely mute...
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