Mr. Festa and "his" Crested lark (1 Viewer)

Here´s a short, small addition (and correction!) regarding …

festae
● in the subspecies Galerida cristata festae HARTERT 1922 (here) as "Galerida cristata festæ" a k a "Cyrenaica Crested Lark"

Named after Dr. E. Festa, the traveller in many lands, who, with the exception of Dodson, who collected for Mr. Whitaker along the coast of south-western Cyrenaica on his journey from Murzah to Bengasi, was the first to attempt the ornithological exploration of Cyrenaica.

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= the Italian naturalist Enrico Luigi Festa (1868–1939)

Born 11th of August 1868, in Moncalieri, Turin (Torino), Italy … and he died, at the same place, on the 30th of September 1939.

More info on him, see link here (in Italian) … or elsewhere, on the "net".

Enjoy!

And one more dedication Parus atricapillus festae a synonym of Poecile montanus we can find in...

Gustav von Burg: Die Sumpf- und Weidenmeisen. In: Die Tierwelt. Vol 35, 1925, S. 149–150.

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InThe Palaearctic Titmouse Species by Eck in Zootaxa it says :
Burg, G.v. (1925) Die Sumpf- und Weidenmeisen. Tierwelt (Zofingen), Jahrgang, 1925.
Which I think is the 1925 version of this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jahresberi...he-Ornithol-/113706828230?hash=item1a797481c6 .