Thanks to everyone involved!
It´s time for me to "wrap up" my search for the Duivenbode Birds …
Also discussed on thread:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=264810
As I understand it we can conclude that
Chalcopsitta duivenbodei DUBOIS 1884 (as well as the hybrid "
Duivenbode's riflebird" – this thread #12) commemorates the Dutch merchant (in various goods, feathers and Naturalia), collector and dealer in natural history specimens:
Constantijn Willem Rudolf van Renesse van Duivenbode (1858–), sometimes titled "Directeur handelsmaatschappij" or "Director of the (that is of the local/Ternate branch, not the vast) Dutch East India Co", born and for many years active on the (today Indonesian, in his time Dutch) Island Ternate, in the Moluccas.
We can also note that his name, especially in English context, often is interpreted to Constantijn "
William" (= Willem) and "
Rudolph" (= Rudolf) and that his family name (in many languages) sometimes is shortened to either only "
van Duivenbode" or "
van Duyvenbode" ... leading to various spellings of this species Common Name - like; French:
Lori de Duyvenbode, Italian:
Lori di Duivenbode, English (earlier, and for Pets): "
Duyvenbode's Lory" (today Brown Lory), suggested Swedish name: "
Duivenbodes lorikit" and most surprisingly – Dutch:
Duyvenbodes Lori!? They all refer to the same Bird and the same man.
However; it looks like this "C. W. R." had left Ternate in the mid 1890's. In any case there are several letters written by him after that, from various locations in Europe. When he died seem to be unknown, the last trace of him is a letter to the well-known ornithologist Ernst Hartert, posted in Paris on the 28th of December 1910.
After that "C. W. R." simply seem to vanish.
Regarding the other Duivenbode's I rest my case ... The Parrot is the only one where a Duivenbode is commemorated in its Swedish bird name, and they (the Swedish Names) are the one I´ve been trying to understand.
The final conclusions after whom the rest are named … I leave to you all.
