wahingtoniensis, washingtoniana or washingtonii (1 Viewer)

mb1848 said:

wahingtoniensis, washingtoniana or washingtonii which has priority and which is the right species name?
I listened to an ABA podcast:
https://www.aba.org/j-j-audubon-and-the-bird-of-washington-fraud-with-matthew-halley/ .
And the author of the BBOC article uses washingtonii.
This is sort of stupid question because the bird is fake.
Audubon uses washingtoniensis on the plate in 1827.
https://www.antiqueaudubon.com/store/p38/11-The-Bird-Washington.html .
Improper latin?
Audubon uses washingtoniana in 1828.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19421#page/139/mode/1up .
Audubon uses washingtonii in 1838.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103784#page/86/mode/1up .
An article which disagrees with BBOC.
https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/..._Substantiating Audubons Washington Eagle.pdf .
I have virus cabib fever.

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The name which I have chosen for this new species of Eagle, "The Bird of Washington," may, by some, be considered as preposterous and unfit; but as it is indisputably the noblest bird of its genus that has yet been discovered in the United States, I trust I shall be allowed to honour it with the name of one yet nobler, who was the saviour of his country, and whose name will ever be dear to it. To those who may be curious to know my reasons, I can only say, that, as the new world gave me birth and liberty, the great man who ensured its independence is next to my heart. He had a nobility of mind, and a generosity of soul, such as are seldom possessed. He was brave, so is the eagle; like it, too, he was the terror of his foes; and his fame, extending from pole to pole, resembles the majestic soarings of the mightiest of the feathered tribe. If America has reason to be proud of her Washington, so has she to be proud of her Great Eagle.
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[J. J. Audubon, Ornithological biography, ... Vol 1. (1831), pp.60-61, here]​

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