Mathews extravaganza
I took the liberty to move (or, more like, gather) all the obscure names coined by Gregory Macalister Mathews, earlier listed in James's looong thread
HBWAlive Key; mission accomplished or mission impossible? and placed them all in this one. This was made simply to weed out what suddenly have grown into an almost incalculable thread, simply to make some space, in an attempt to make the "
HBWAlive Key; mission" possible, or at least somewhat easier, to grasp.
As the many (odd) names by Mathews are some of the most insoluble (if not, at least very tricky) ones of all names, I thought they would be better off in a thread of their own (
i.e. this one
), simply as I expect them to be easier to handle together, better to keep all of his "eggs" in one basket. If we can solve either one of them, others might follow ... who knows?
The
green ones have been dealt with earlier in the "
HBWAlive Key; mission ..." thread (
here), and the
black ones, well, they are still all waiting for anyone keen, feeling up to it, eager on giving them a go.
The remaining ones, all still unsolved, all coined by Mathews, are as follows – from
audoni to
zarda:
•
audoni as in "
Sphecotheres flaviventris audoni" MATHEWS 1911 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
bamba as in "
Pomatorhinus temporalis bamba" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [ [today's
Key;
here]
•
bandi as in "
Munia bichenovii bandi" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
bilbali as in "
Anthus australis bilbali" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
braba as in "
Gliciphila melanops braba" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
breda as in "
Philemon orientalis breda" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
[•
brenda as in "Ptilotis unicolor brenda" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here)
... added to James's original list/s by Mark, in mission thread, post #141, again dealt with in #143-145) [today's
Key;
here]
•
calconi as in "
Ptilotis penicillata calconi" MATHEWS 1911 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
christopheri as in "
Sterna striata christopheri" MATHEWS 1911 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
christophori as in "
Gerygone tenebrosa christophori" MATHEWS 1911 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
condora as in "
Acanthiza uropygalis condora" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
darbiski as in "Ptilotis unicolor darbiski" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here)
(see mission thread, post #141) [today's
Key;
here]
•
dingi as in "
Ptilotis fusca dingi" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's Key;
here]
•
disneyi as in "Ardeiralla flavicollis disneyi" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here)
(see mission thread, posts #229, 231–232) [today's
Key;
here]
•
enidae as in "
Pachycephala enidae" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
gangi as in "
Munia castaneothorax gangi" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
gonada as in "Glycifohia gonada" MATHEWS 1929 (OD
here)
(also see mission thread, posts #236-241) [today's
Key;
here]
•
greda as in "
Pachycephala leucura greda" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
hildamariae as in "Barbatula hildamariæ" MATHEWS 1934 (OD
here)
(see mission thread, #96-97, 108-114) [today's
Key;
here]
•
joanae as in "
Ailuroedus melanotis joanae" MATHEWS 1941 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
julietae as in "
Colluricincla brunnea julietae" MATHEWS 1942 (OD, see
attached excerpt) [today's
Key;
here]
•
Julietata as in "a new subgenus
Julietata" MATHEWS 1943 (OD, in text,
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
ladasi as in "
Ptilotis penicillata ladasi" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
monica as in "
Notochibia monica" MATHEWS 1926 ("new name for
Chibia densa, Sharpe, ... " (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here].
Note:
densa is not included in today's
Key.
Sidetrack: "
Chibia densa, Sharpe" (
here) is an alteration of "
Dicrurus densus, Bp. ... "
ex Temm. MS. ...", thereby a mere subsequent spelling (and as such) not included in today's
Key. Could possibly be added to
densus as an explanation alt. variation (if mentioned) in context to
monica. Or not?
•
mouki X 2 [today's
Key here]
- "Gerygone laevigaster mouki" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
- "Zonaeginthus castanotis mouki" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
•
mugga as in "
Zosterops lateralis mugga" MATHEWS 1925 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
munna X 5 [today's
Key;
here]
- "Artamus personatus munna" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
- "Dendrocygna eytoni munna" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
- "Myzomela obscura munna" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
- "Ptilotis leucoptis munna" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
- "Ptilotis ornata munna" MATHEWS 1912 (OD here)
•
Nutchera as in "
Nutchera gen. nov" MATHEWS 1918 (OD, in text
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
nutcheri X 2 [today's
Key;
here]
- "Neonectris griseus nutcheri" MATHEWS 1916 (OD here)
- "Coprotheres pomarinus nutcheri" MATHEWS 1916 (OD here)
•
philordi as in "
Zonaeginthus guttatus philordi" MATHEWS 1911 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
publa as in "
Halcyon macleayii publa" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
violetae as in "
Pachycephala gutturalis violetæ" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
youngi as in "Pachycephala gutturalis youngi" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here)
(Also see mission thread, post #230, 232) [today's
Key;
here]
•
zamba as in "
Colluricincla harmonica zamba" MATHEWS 1912 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
Zanda as in "
Zanda, gen. nov" MATHEWS 1913 (OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
•
zanda X 4 [today's
Key;
here]:
- "Ptilotula flavescens zanda" MATHEWS 1913 (OD here)
- "Northiella hæmatogaster zanda" MATHEWS 1913 (OD here)
- "Gilbertornis rufogularis zanda" MATHEWS 1916 (OD here)
- "Pagoa zanda" MATHEWS 1916 (OD here), replacement name for "the bird figured and described ..." (here and here)
•
zarda as in "
Ptilotis cratitia zarda" MATHEWS 1912 OD
here) [today's
Key;
here]
Good luck in dealing with them all!
Björn
PS. I would assume, or suspect; if anyone of our Australian friends dug deep into this topic, it would be, or ought to be, possible to solve quite a few of them! While here, "Down Over", it's a completely different thing (see posts #9 and #10, this thread.)
PPS. More about Mathews himself [Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876–1949)],
here, or
here. And his closest Family,
here.
Merry X-mas!
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