Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Let's have a quick look at ... (even if nothing new, nothing contradictory)
Barrow's and barrovi (alt. later barrowii) as in:
• Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica J. F. GMELIN 1789 (here), as "[Anas] islandica"
In Mearns & Mearns, 2022* [in Vol. 1: pp. 33–35] we find the dedicatee as [my blue]:
All in line with today's Key**:
As well with my own MS, where he's: Sir John Barrow (1764–1848), British civil servant, explorer, etc., etc. ...
Note: the English Common name Barrow's Goldeneye for Bucephala islandica originates in the later (synonym) "Glangula barrovii" SWAINSON 1831 (here), even later a k a Fuligula/Platypus/Anas barrowii.
He's also commemorated (confirmed in the text, by Mearns & Mearns) in yet another (even if far more Southern) taxon (species, alt. subspecies):
• Barrow's Bustard Eupodotis (senegalensis) barrowii J. E. GRAY 1829 (here), as "Otis Barrowii", a k a "White-bellied Bustard" alt. "White-bellied Korhaan, or even "Black-necked Bustard".
The latter explained in the Key as:
Thereby, nothing to remark upon (on neither one). It all looks fully correct.
[James, the I only thing I miss in the two Key entries (above) would be: "See barrowi / barrowii", resp. "See barrovii"]
Also derivable (even if secondary, and somewhat more distantly) to the toponym barrovianus (as in the Glaucus Gull ssp. Larus hyperboreus barrovianus), which, according to the Mearns couple, is/was named after Point Barrow, Northern Alaska, USA (a place, in its turn, supposedly named after the same guy).
Which, as well, is all in accordance with the Key:
And, that's all!
Thus, nothing to 'worry' about.
See you all elsewhere.
/B
*Biographies for Birdwatchers – The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names (Revised and expanded edition), by Barbara Mearns and Richard Mearns (662 pages, in two volumes), © 2022.
**The Key to Scientific Names, Edited by James A. Jobling (here).
Barrow's and barrovi (alt. later barrowii) as in:
• Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica J. F. GMELIN 1789 (here), as "[Anas] islandica"
In Mearns & Mearns, 2022* [in Vol. 1: pp. 33–35] we find the dedicatee as [my blue]:
All in line with today's Key**:
As well with my own MS, where he's: Sir John Barrow (1764–1848), British civil servant, explorer, etc., etc. ...
Note: the English Common name Barrow's Goldeneye for Bucephala islandica originates in the later (synonym) "Glangula barrovii" SWAINSON 1831 (here), even later a k a Fuligula/Platypus/Anas barrowii.
He's also commemorated (confirmed in the text, by Mearns & Mearns) in yet another (even if far more Southern) taxon (species, alt. subspecies):
• Barrow's Bustard Eupodotis (senegalensis) barrowii J. E. GRAY 1829 (here), as "Otis Barrowii", a k a "White-bellied Bustard" alt. "White-bellied Korhaan, or even "Black-necked Bustard".
The latter explained in the Key as:
Thereby, nothing to remark upon (on neither one). It all looks fully correct.
[James, the I only thing I miss in the two Key entries (above) would be: "See barrowi / barrowii", resp. "See barrovii"]
Also derivable (even if secondary, and somewhat more distantly) to the toponym barrovianus (as in the Glaucus Gull ssp. Larus hyperboreus barrovianus), which, according to the Mearns couple, is/was named after Point Barrow, Northern Alaska, USA (a place, in its turn, supposedly named after the same guy).
Which, as well, is all in accordance with the Key:
And, that's all!
Thus, nothing to 'worry' about.
See you all elsewhere.
/B
*Biographies for Birdwatchers – The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names (Revised and expanded edition), by Barbara Mearns and Richard Mearns (662 pages, in two volumes), © 2022.
**The Key to Scientific Names, Edited by James A. Jobling (here).
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