Mr Knudsen's Hawaiian Stilt (1 Viewer)

I will put this in a separate thread even if it´s a close continuation on my earlier Thread Gay's Elepaio ... (simply to avoid losing focus, topics wandering in various directions)

Another ornithologist linked to the Sinclair family (thereby connected to Francis Gay) was the Norwegian naturalist Valdemar Emil Knudsen (1819–1898), sugar cane plantation pioneer on west Kauai, Hawaii (among the Hawaiians a k a "Kanuka")

Apparently born "5 August 1819 in Kristiansand", Vest-Agder county, Southern Norway … arrived on Hawaii in the 1850's (exactly when varies, from source to source; 1853–1856) … more on him in Wikipedia, here. Looks fairly well researched, with several links onwards:

Valdemar Knudsen forwarded birds to the Smithsonian Institution as early as 1866. Knudsen's efforts put Kauai ahead of the other Hawaiian islands in terms of ornithological knowledge for a time. He first collected the Kauaʻi ʻakialoa (Akialoa (ellisiana) stejnegeri). Leonhard Stejneger first described the species from a specimen collected by Valdemar Knudsen ...

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Or here.

This Valdemar Knudsen is commemorated in, for example:
● the Hawaiian Stilt Himantopus (mexicanus) knudseni STEJNEGER 1887 (here)

Compare with today's HBW Alive Key:

knudseni
Valdemar Emil Knudsen (1822-1898) Norwegian naturalist, collector on Hawaii (syn. Ardenna pacifica, Himantopus).

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Born in 1919 or 1922? There´s also claims of 1920?

Who knows?
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If you trust in the Eric Alfred Knudsen Trust here 1819 would be correct.

But I am not sure if you can trust the Trust.:cat: