Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Here's some additional info on yet another guy, simply stumbled upon, along the way, while looking for others [Grün (Green) is a hard name/word to search for ], commemorated in the scientific name ...
grueni as in:
• the debated ssp. (valid or invalid?) Athene noctua grueni* VON JORDANS & STEINBACHER 1942 (here, pp. 234-325), as "Athene noctua Grüni"**
... which ought to lead us to the German collector Hermann Grün (1892-1963), collector on the Iberian Peninsula (in Spain and Southern Portugal), during most of the 1930's (from August 1930, until at least April 1939).
See Història de l'ornitologia catalana (here), with a reference to: REIG-FERRER, A. 2008. Hermann Grün (1892-1963) : un naturalista peculiar a terres eivissenques. Es Busqueret., núm. 17, p. 8-16. Same years mentioned in Bonner zoologische Monographien 19, 1984 (here): "H. Grün (1892 – 1963)".
Enjoy!
Björn
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*Most often considered a synonym of today's Athene noctua vidalii A. E. BREHM 1857
**Original spelling, not listed in today's Key.
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grueni as in:
• the debated ssp. (valid or invalid?) Athene noctua grueni* VON JORDANS & STEINBACHER 1942 (here, pp. 234-325), as "Athene noctua Grüni"**
From the very intro of the Paper (p.200):
"... H. Grün erhalten hatten, ... das H. Grün an verschiedenen Orten Spaniens und in Südportugal gesammelt hat. ...H. Grün für uns auf der Iberischen Halbinsel sammelte: ... von August 1930 ..."
(OD, p.234):
"Wir benennen die Rasse nach unserem langjährigen Sammler H. Grün, dem wir zahlreiches und vielseitiges Material aus Spanien und Portugal verdanken."
(+ p.235):
"Typus. [female] 13. IV.1939. Lagos, Portugal, Leg. H. Grün, ..."
... which ought to lead us to the German collector Hermann Grün (1892-1963), collector on the Iberian Peninsula (in Spain and Southern Portugal), during most of the 1930's (from August 1930, until at least April 1939).
See Història de l'ornitologia catalana (here), with a reference to: REIG-FERRER, A. 2008. Hermann Grün (1892-1963) : un naturalista peculiar a terres eivissenques. Es Busqueret., núm. 17, p. 8-16. Same years mentioned in Bonner zoologische Monographien 19, 1984 (here): "H. Grün (1892 – 1963)".
Enjoy!
Björn
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*Most often considered a synonym of today's Athene noctua vidalii A. E. BREHM 1857
**Original spelling, not listed in today's Key.
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