McClounie's Barbet
He's not one of "my guys" (I'd never heard of him before), but I couldn't keep my fingers away ...
And, after a few hours, I think Paul is (or at least could be) fully correct. :t:
Jobling's
Dictionary of scientific names (Helm, 2010) says:
macclounii John MacClounie (fl. 1938) British naturalist and collector in Nyasaland 1895–1906 (Lybius).
Global Plants (
here) has him as:
McClounie, John (fl. 1893-1903)
Also in the latter spelling of his surname, for example/s;
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here (on p.22), and
here (on p.8), the latter with a reference to:
McClounie, J. 1903. A Journey across the Nyika Plateau.
The Geographical Journal 22 [
No.4]: 423-437 (
i.e. same piece as in post #1, but in full access, for everyone, even without a
JStore account,
here).
To me,
McClounie seems to be (by far!) the most common version (even if the scientific names, on many taxa, also on non-birds, seems to prefer the
mac-version). Note that the plant/herb that K. W. Braid described as "Brachycorythis Macclouniei
Braid sp. nov." (1925) is/was collected by "
McClounie" (see p.357, latter link in #1).
Also compare with the Common/Vernacular name McClounie's Barbet (or Mcclouni's ditto !?!), for the debated (
Pogonornis)
Lybius (
minor)
macclounii (SHELLEY 1899), a k a White-faced alt. Black-backed ditto, or (written as) Macclounie's Barbet.
McClounie is also the spelling (repeatedly) used by Shelley himself in his
Birds of Africa (
comprising all the Species which occur in the Ethiopian region), see for example in Vol. IV (part 1), 1905 (
here), and by Rachel Warren (1966) in
Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (for example/s;
here or/and
here), with the added; "
J. M. McClounie".
Also see; "McClounie, John MacIntosh" (as of
here), or/alt. (the correct way around) "
John MacIntosh McClounie" (
here), a guy who succeeded Whyte as forester and head of the Scientific Department, of the
British Central Africa Protectorate ... and onwards, who retired in "1907" (alt. was a "Pensioner" in 1932), which would fit Jobling's phrase (above): "collector in Nyasaland 1895–1906".
As we've seen before; those Scottish Mc../Mac.../Mack.../M'... are always tricky to find, using the inflexible (strictly alphabetical) search engines of the net.
If he was one of "mine" I would write his name (and years) as:
John M. [MacIntosh alt. McIntosh]
McClounie (
1869–1941).
For whatever it is worth.
Cheers
Björn
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