Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Another text, not necessarily in need of translation, for our French knowing friends ...
The Mr Bel commemorated in the subspecie Bel's silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera beli is (as I understand it): ”M. [Monsieur = Mr] Marc Bel”. And I think I have a clue of who he was ...
But before that; does the type description reveal anything else about him? Something like how he obtained this bird, "his own" silver pheasant? Maybe a sentence or a frase worth quoting, or ... does it explain if he collected it himself or if he just bought it?
Oustalet, E. 1898. Notice sur une espèce, probablement nouvelle, de Faisan de l’Annam. Bulletin du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle , Paris. 4 no.6: 258-261. (attached)
The Mr Bel commemorated in the subspecie Bel's silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera beli is (as I understand it): ”M. [Monsieur = Mr] Marc Bel”. And I think I have a clue of who he was ...
But before that; does the type description reveal anything else about him? Something like how he obtained this bird, "his own" silver pheasant? Maybe a sentence or a frase worth quoting, or ... does it explain if he collected it himself or if he just bought it?
Oustalet, E. 1898. Notice sur une espèce, probablement nouvelle, de Faisan de l’Annam. Bulletin du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle , Paris. 4 no.6: 258-261. (attached)