Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Here´s another small addition to the HBW Alive Key … regarding:
= most likely the British cotton merchant and ornithologist Mr. Francis Nicholson (1843-1925), of Manchester, member of the Zoological Society of London, British Ornithologist's Union etc. etc. – who himself described, for example; Anthus cinnamomeus bocagii NICHOLSON 1884 (the same year), and (earlier) Anthus lutescens peruvianus NICHOLSON 1878.
Note: I haven´t checked him fully, nor thoroughly. If he ever wrote or published that Wagtail/Pipit monograph I do not know … neither if he ever collected any birds himself. He might have.
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… in the long debated taxon; species, subspecies (or subspecies Group) Anthus (similis) nicholsoni SHARPE 1884 (as "Anthus nicholsoni" a k a "Nicholson's Pipit"): "One of these appears to us to be without a name, as we cannot at present find any of the published descriptions which will suit it, and we have affixed to it the name of Mr. Francis Nicholson who has long been studying the Motacillidæ, and whose monograph of the family we hope shortly to welcome."
= most likely the British cotton merchant and ornithologist Mr. Francis Nicholson (1843-1925), of Manchester, member of the Zoological Society of London, British Ornithologist's Union etc. etc. – who himself described, for example; Anthus cinnamomeus bocagii NICHOLSON 1884 (the same year), and (earlier) Anthus lutescens peruvianus NICHOLSON 1878.
Note: I haven´t checked him fully, nor thoroughly. If he ever wrote or published that Wagtail/Pipit monograph I do not know … neither if he ever collected any birds himself. He might have.
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