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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3291811" data-attributes="member: 24811">Note that Gould himself did not use this name at all: it was introduced by JHCF Sturm, the German editor of the translation. See the footnote on the first text page:In Gould's Monographie ist diese Art als Pteroglossus ulocomus aufgeführt. St. And then on the next page, below the synonymy:Nach diesem Exemplare theilte der selige Professor Wagler in der Isis a.a.O. die Charaktere dieser Art mit, und legte ihr den gefeierten Familiennamen des Herrn Herzogs bei, der das erste Exemplar dieses Vogels nach Europa gebracht hatte. Gould kannte aber Wagler's Bekanntmachung dieser Art in der Isis nicht, und zeigte unsern Vogel in der Sitzung der zoologischen Gesellschaft zu London am 15. März 1833 vor, wo er ihm den Namen Pt. ulocomus gab, vor welchem jedoch der Wagler'sche als der frühere den Vorzug verdient.From this comment, it is also clear that what the writer identified as the publication that gave Wagler's name its precedence, was the work published in Isis, not that in Das Ausland, even though he had just listed the latter first in his synonymy.(Thus Martin seems correct that Das Ausland was not regarded as a possible support for the introduction of a new name. If so, before it is accepted that Wagler's name dates from its publication there, it might be a good thing to have the whole journal screened for other possible new names... This is potentially a highly disruptive move.)</blockquote>

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