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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3493276" data-attributes="member: 24811">That Salomon Müller (NB - not the only Müller around at this time, which doesn't make things easier...) named a bird from the Verreaux collection seems indeed rather improbable, and this intrigued me at first too.<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8305852" target="_blank">Sharpe 1881</a> wrote:If there are birds in Leiden labelled susanni (by Salomon Müller?), but that are another (completely different!) species, it seems most likely that Bonaparte took the name from there, but then messed things up and published it in association with the description of another bird. If so, we won't find any explanation to the name by researching the particulars of Bonaparte's type specimen...</blockquote>