Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
● bambergi
.. in the invalid "Garrulus glandarius bambergi"
Described by (the Swedish ornithologist) Einar Lönnberg 1909 (on p. 12) in: Notes on Birds collected by Mr. Otto Bamberg in Southern Transbaicalia and Northern Mongolia. Arkiv för Zoologi 5 (9): 1-42. Link to full volume (here)
= "Last year Mr. Otto Bamberg of Weimar made a collection …" (p.1)
● ibis
Regarding the entry in HBW Alive Key:
● the invalid Generic name Labbus
In his (sixth edition, I think it is, of) Systema Naturæ 1748 Linnaeus called it "Labben" (in definite form, i. e. meaning that the name was either labbe or labb).
And we know that Brisson read his Linnaeus … or?
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.. in the invalid "Garrulus glandarius bambergi"
Described by (the Swedish ornithologist) Einar Lönnberg 1909 (on p. 12) in: Notes on Birds collected by Mr. Otto Bamberg in Southern Transbaicalia and Northern Mongolia. Arkiv för Zoologi 5 (9): 1-42. Link to full volume (here)
= "Last year Mr. Otto Bamberg of Weimar made a collection …" (p.1)
● ibis
Regarding the entry in HBW Alive Key:
= Fredrik Hasselqvist (1722–1752)ibis
"L. ibis ibis < Gr. ιβις ibis ibis. The Greek authors recognised three different types of ibis: the Glossy Ibis, the Sacred Ibis, and the Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp.
● ex “Ardea (Ibis)” of Hasselqvist 1757. The Swedish explorer Fredrik Hasselqvist (d. 1752) was persuaded by his Egyptian dragoman that the Cattle Egret was, in fact, the sacred ibis of the ancients. His papers eventually found their way to Linnaeus, who unwittingly perpetuated the deception in the egret’s specific name (Bubulcus)."
● the invalid Generic name Labbus
This name is found in Swedish texts from at least the early 1700's; first as labbe (1730) and then as labb (1762) – considered to (presumably) be coined from the Swedish word (verb) labba meaning "walking heavy or clumsy" [on the ground] – mainly used for today's Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus, still (in everyday Swedish) called simply "labb" (vs the "official" name "kustlabb", i. e. Costal labb)Labbus
(?syn. Stercorarius) No expl. (Rafinesque 1815, Analyse, 72, where placed in Mesopodia, sub-family Petrelia, after Merotias). Doubtless from "Labbé" of Brisson 1760 < French name Labbe for a skua. !???
In his (sixth edition, I think it is, of) Systema Naturæ 1748 Linnaeus called it "Labben" (in definite form, i. e. meaning that the name was either labbe or labb).
And we know that Brisson read his Linnaeus … or?
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