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A Dove named after Clémentine… !? (1 Viewer)

Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")
Sweden
Here´s yet another obscure scientific name …

clementine
●… in the invalid "Kurukuru Clementinæ" DES MURS & PRÉVOST 1849 and "Ptinilopus Clementinæ" HOMBRON & JAQUINOT 1853 a k a (in French) "Kurukuru/Ptinolope de Clémentine" [syn. Ptilinopus porphyraceus TEMMINCK 1821].

The work referred to (as "unseen") in Jobling's HBW Alive Key is; Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate "la Vénus" pendant les années 1836-1839. publié... par Abel Du Petit-Thouars,... (in 10 volumes) and the "OD" is found in (Tome V) Volume 5, on pp. 264-266 … (attached, or here).

Note: this is the 1855 Edition, not the original 1839 version.

Also note the sentence "une petit brick-goëlette nommé la Clémentine", …" found on page 325, in Tome 1 (here), from the first edition 1839 … if relevant? Also more "Clémentine" in the sentences and pages thereafter.

The other reference in the "Voyage autour …" : "Ptinolope de Clémentine, Hombr. et. Jacq., pl. 28, fig.3, Voy. au pôle Sud" is found (here).

Without understanding French … is it a boat?
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I believe that Clementine refers to a brigantine Clementine owned by a Frenchman Jules Dudoit flying under a British flag that sailed the Pacific in the 1830s to the 1840s. It was involved in a diplomatic mess between Captain Petit-Thouars of La Venus and Captain Belcher of the Sulphur at Hawaii. Clementine was the name of Dudoit's wife and daughter.
https://books.google.com/books?id=L...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false . Page 510.
 
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Yes, it's a boat. (A schooner brig - sometimes loosely included under the rubric "brigantine" but with the rear mast entirely schooner-rigged.)

That passage goes for a couple of pages describing an incident involving a couple of forcibly-deported French and British missionaries, a captain (Dudoit, a Frenchman who, for some reason, flew a British flag on this ship) forced to take them aboard, and then negotiations among French, British, Hawaiian, and US representatives. Most of the action takes place in Honolulu but there's a reference to Baja California as well?

Edit: after following mb1848's link (a book by Hiram Bingham the 1st! Grandfather of the discoverer of Macchu Picchu??), it seems that the Clementine [under a different captain, according to the French link] brought the two missionaries to Hawaii (from Baja California), so that was why the Hawaiian government picked that ship to carry out their expulsion. Instead, Dudoit abandoned his ship and marched to the British consulate, leaving the two missionaries aboard.
 
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Ok, the Dove was named after a boat (a French "brick goelette") ... by the name Clémentine. Fair enough.

As good as "Larus Vegae", I guess!

Whith very limited knowledge of French I have to ask: Is the commemoration chrystal clear? What does the first phrase in the OD itself tell us?
"C´est à MM. Hombron et Jacquinot, chirurgiens de Zélée, que l´on doit la première figure de cete espèces …, sur laquelle elle porte le nom que ces voyageurs lui ont, donné, et que nous lui conservons, de Clémentine, en souvernir d´illustres infortunes."
I know who Mr. Hombron & Mr. Jacquinot was and the Zélée ... anyone feel like translating?
 
google/me translate: on which it is named that these travelers have him, and we keep it to Clementine in souvenir to illustrate his misfortunes. Dudoit's wife Clementine died ten months into the marriage. ???
 
"It is to Messrs Hombron and Jacquinot, surgeons on la Zélée, that we owe the first illustration of this species, several specimens of which had long been at the Museum of Natural History of Paris: it is the #3 of the plate 29 of the Atlas of their Voyage au pôle Sud, where it bears the name that these travellers gave it, and that we retain for it, of Clémentine, in remembrance of famous misfortunes."
 
Thanks guys!

And thanks Laurent for the translation!

As I understand it: the Dove is named after the boat, which in its turn (of minor importance here ;)) was named after Dudoit's wife.

Anyone think otherwise?

If not: Clémentine ... over and out!
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