Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
There seem to be (at least) 3 different Bennett commemorated in various Bird, here in chronological order :
1: Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii A. SMITH 1836 = the English zoologist and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London: Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836).
2: Dwarf Cassowary (a k a "Bennett's Cassowary" ) Casuarius bennetti GOULD 1857 and Barred Owlet-nightjar (a k a "Bennett’s Owlet-nightjar") Aegotheles bennettii SALVADORI & D’ALBERTIS 1875 = the British (English/Australian) Physician (Surgeon), zoologist and botanist: George Bennett (1804–1893).
3: Little Crow (a k a "Bennett's Crow") Corvus bennetti NORTH 1901 = the Australian collector: Kenric Harold Bennett (1835–1891).
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1: I haven´t found any actual dedication or clear link to either Bennett on the Woodpecker in Smith's type description, but I assume it is the correct Bennett. Well-known British Ornithologist's are normally checked thoroughly. Noteworthy is that Andrew Smith himself wrote the following memorable lines 1836 in the same Expedition report as his presentation of the woodpecker:
2: Gould's description of the newly discovered Cassowary was published three different (!) times in six weeks (in The Athenaeum, in The Literary Gazette and in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London) in 1857-1858! For Citation see Zoonomen: http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/frame.html. In one of those Papers (the only one I´ve checked; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London it is clear as Glass: the Name surely commemorates the above mentioned George Bennett. *For the Owlet-nightjar, see below.
3: The Crow I leave to someone else … there is no Mr. Bennett in its Swedish Name (but I think I, anyway, got his years right!?) and they (the Swedish Names) are the one I´ve been trying to learn some more about.
* The tricky one that require knowledge of Italian is the Aegotheles bennettii SALVADORI & D’ALBERTIS 1875. Its type description is found in: Salvadori, T. & L M. D'Albertis. 1875. Catalogo di una Collezione di Uccelli dell'Isola Yule e della vicina Costa Meridionale della Penisola Orientale della Nuova Guinea raccolti da L. M. d'Albertis. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 7:797-839. (excerpt attached; Introduction and type description: pp. 797-804, 816-817)
Anyone knowing Italian feel like trying to find out if any Bennett is mentioned? Or any other fact whatsover linking this Papuan/Indonesian specie to Bennett – whomever he was?
1: Bennett's Woodpecker Campethera bennettii A. SMITH 1836 = the English zoologist and Secretary of the Zoological Society of London: Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836).
2: Dwarf Cassowary (a k a "Bennett's Cassowary" ) Casuarius bennetti GOULD 1857 and Barred Owlet-nightjar (a k a "Bennett’s Owlet-nightjar") Aegotheles bennettii SALVADORI & D’ALBERTIS 1875 = the British (English/Australian) Physician (Surgeon), zoologist and botanist: George Bennett (1804–1893).
3: Little Crow (a k a "Bennett's Crow") Corvus bennetti NORTH 1901 = the Australian collector: Kenric Harold Bennett (1835–1891).
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1: I haven´t found any actual dedication or clear link to either Bennett on the Woodpecker in Smith's type description, but I assume it is the correct Bennett. Well-known British Ornithologist's are normally checked thoroughly. Noteworthy is that Andrew Smith himself wrote the following memorable lines 1836 in the same Expedition report as his presentation of the woodpecker:
Pity he wasn´t so particular himself.
2: Gould's description of the newly discovered Cassowary was published three different (!) times in six weeks (in The Athenaeum, in The Literary Gazette and in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London) in 1857-1858! For Citation see Zoonomen: http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/frame.html. In one of those Papers (the only one I´ve checked; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London it is clear as Glass: the Name surely commemorates the above mentioned George Bennett. *For the Owlet-nightjar, see below.
3: The Crow I leave to someone else … there is no Mr. Bennett in its Swedish Name (but I think I, anyway, got his years right!?) and they (the Swedish Names) are the one I´ve been trying to learn some more about.
* The tricky one that require knowledge of Italian is the Aegotheles bennettii SALVADORI & D’ALBERTIS 1875. Its type description is found in: Salvadori, T. & L M. D'Albertis. 1875. Catalogo di una Collezione di Uccelli dell'Isola Yule e della vicina Costa Meridionale della Penisola Orientale della Nuova Guinea raccolti da L. M. d'Albertis. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 7:797-839. (excerpt attached; Introduction and type description: pp. 797-804, 816-817)
Anyone knowing Italian feel like trying to find out if any Bennett is mentioned? Or any other fact whatsover linking this Papuan/Indonesian specie to Bennett – whomever he was?
