Susan Manchester
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I have been looking at this for about four hours, so I wanted to try and run it past the experts, especially those that might speak French. Who is the specific epithet mercierii for? I see that the one type of this bird was found during the circumnavigation of the earth on La Venus, led by Abel Aubert Du Petit-Thouars. I tried looking for a crew member named Mercier, but found nothing. I found what looked like a lithographer or publisher named Bernard Mercier (which I found out is the French equivalent of Taylor). My eyes are starting to roll from trying to translate all those French reports. Thank you for any help you can give me!