Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Birds of Australia by Gregory Mathews!?
It´s time to tackle one of the "madcaps" or "wild ones" among Scientific Bird Name Authors; the incomparable, often scolded (but, irrespective of that, still valid!) Gregory Macalister Mathews!
In his famous "Birds of Australia" Volume II 1912 the following (and many other) Birds are described for the first time:
1. Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni
2. MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila (salvini) macgillivrayi
3. Medium-billed Prion Pachyptila (vittata) salvini (a k a "Salvin's Broad-billed Prion", "Salvin's Prion" or "Salvin's Whale-bird")
4. Magellanic Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides magellani (a k a "Magellan Diving Petrel")
Unfortunately none of the twelve volumes of this ornithological milestone is represented in a Swedish Library ... and so far I haven´t been able to either find it nor read it!
Does anyone of all Bird Forum readers have access to this volume (No 2) or any of those four type descriptions?
It´s time to tackle one of the "madcaps" or "wild ones" among Scientific Bird Name Authors; the incomparable, often scolded (but, irrespective of that, still valid!) Gregory Macalister Mathews!
In his famous "Birds of Australia" Volume II 1912 the following (and many other) Birds are described for the first time:
1. Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni
2. MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila (salvini) macgillivrayi
3. Medium-billed Prion Pachyptila (vittata) salvini (a k a "Salvin's Broad-billed Prion", "Salvin's Prion" or "Salvin's Whale-bird")
4. Magellanic Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides magellani (a k a "Magellan Diving Petrel")
Unfortunately none of the twelve volumes of this ornithological milestone is represented in a Swedish Library ... and so far I haven´t been able to either find it nor read it!
Does anyone of all Bird Forum readers have access to this volume (No 2) or any of those four type descriptions?
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