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Message: <blockquote data-quote="janvanderbrugge" data-source="post: 3493215" data-attributes="member: 137246">Laurent finished his reaction (thanks for explaining) with:"Yes, I agree that you might in principle latinize Susanna to Susanius; and, if you do, the genitive is unquestionably Susanii. I'm just not convinced this is what most people would have done with that name (i.e., susannae, susannai, susannii or susanni, all seem more likely to me)."That is not what I wrote or meant. I imagined that susanii could be derived from Susan, the editor which Laurent had mentioned before, not from the name Susanna. But, as I said, in that case you would think of a confusion of the two names. Any relation between Salomon Müller and this publisher Susan has stayed out of this discussion. Maybe there is none.Here is an impression of the mess which authors can make of dedicatory names . . . hedvigae (Metallura): for ”Madame la Comtesse Hedvige Branicka”. Name was given by Taczanowski in 1874. The countess is also commemorated in the name hedwigae (Chlorochrysa).  hedwigae (Chlorochrysa): H.Berlepsch & J.Stolzmann, 1901: ”Nous nous permettons de dédier cette belle espèce, qui est très distincte des espèces connues du genre Chlorochrysa, à Mme. La Comtesse Hedwige Branicka, mère de Xavier Branicki.” (we permit ourselves to dedicate this beautiful species, which is very distinct from the known species of the genus Chlorochrysa, to Madam Countess H.B., mother of X.B. See also hedvigae)Cyanistes teneriffae hedwigae (Dietzen, Garcia-del-Rey, Castro & Wink, 2008)  [Bird Species New to Science, OrnithoNotes, Arpit Deomurari]Cyanistes teneriffae hedwigae = Parus (caeruleus) teneriffae ssp.?Cyanistes (teneriffae) hedwigii Dietzen, Garcia del Rey, Delgado Castro & Wink, 2007.  [Bird Species New to Science, OrnithoNotes, Arpit Deomurari]Cyanistes (teneriffae) hedwigii (Gran Canaria Blue Tit)Apparently Arpit Deomurari did list the two versions for the Blue Tit subspecies. They are in alphabetical order here, but the different year suggests that he emended the name to the ending in feminine genitive. I do not know whether Deomurari can be considered an authority (only from Internet lists), but that does not matter now, nor is the vaidity of this new subspecies of importance here.  So we have a choice of Hedwig dedications, all for one female name Hedwig (albeit not the same Hedwig, the countess's name is given as Hedwige, which could not be a criterium in latinization).Jan van der Brugge</blockquote>

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