Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
As I understand it the Lesser Black Coucal Centropus bernsteini (a k a "Bernstein's Coucal") SCHLEGEL 1866 commemorates:
the German (or rather Prussian and, later in life, Dutch) Physician, Zoologist and collector Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828–1865).
Schlegel, H. 1866. Observations Zoologiques II. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor De Dierkunde 3: 249-252. (See excerpt attached, pdf)
Schlegel's type description (above) starts with:
Please don´t hesitate to remark on any errors that I might have done transcribing those sentences.
And, finally: is there anything else added or mentioned in Schlegel's text that might be note-worthy?
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As I´m only focused on explaining the Swedish Bird Names this is the only "Bernstein Bird" that I´ve been checking out thoroughly, but it could be worth mentioning that the same Bernstein is also (according to various sources) commemorated in:
Scarlet-breasted Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus bernsteinii SCHLEGEL 1863
Chinese Crested-Tern (Thalasseus) Sterna bernsteini SCHLEGEL 1863
Sula Scrubfowl Megapodius (freycinet/cummingii) bernsteinii SCHLEGEL 1866
And in the subspecies:
Pitta erythrogaster bernsteini JUNGE 1958
Chalcopsitta atra bernsteini ROSENBERG 1861 (a k a Bernstein's Black Lory)
Pseudochirulus canescens bernsteini SCHLEGEL 1866
and the invalid: Eos bornea "bernsteini" (a k a Bernstein's Red Lory) ROSENBERG 1863
as well as other ; like the spider Sandalodes bernsteini THORELL 1881 or the moth Immetalia bernsteini VOLLENHOVEN 1863 and many more …
the German (or rather Prussian and, later in life, Dutch) Physician, Zoologist and collector Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828–1865).
Schlegel, H. 1866. Observations Zoologiques II. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor De Dierkunde 3: 249-252. (See excerpt attached, pdf)
Schlegel's type description (above) starts with:
Further on Bernstein is mentioned repeatedly, as for example:"Ce mémoire succint nʼest destiné quʼà faire connaître quelques-unes des découvertes rècentes de notre infatigable voyager, feu le doctor BERNSTEIN, qui a succombé lʼannée dernière, dans lʼîle Papou de Batanta, aux attaques dʼune maladie incurable, et dons les collections viennent dʼarriver à notre grand établissement national."
"Le chasseur indigène qui avait tué lʼindividu rapporté par Wallace étant entré au service de BERNSTEIN, donna enfin à notre voyageur, la solution de l ʼénigme en constatant que cet oiseau ne fréquente pas les eaux, mais se tient dans les forêts, où on ne tarda le retrouver."
"Il existe cependant, dans ces contrées, une autre espèce que nous appelerons CENTROPUS BERNSTEINI.
Anyone feel like having a go at translating those four quotes? If so, please, as accurate as possible, as I would like to quote them (especially the last one) myself (in Swedish) in my entry for Bernstein."Voulant perpétuer le souvenir dʼune enterprise scientifique commencée sous les auspices les plus favorables, mais tout dʼun coup et si tristement terminée, jʼai choisi, parmi les espèces nouvelle, découvertes par feu le doctor BERNSTEIN, cinq des plus remarquables, dans le but de leur attribuer comme èpithètes les noms des fauteurs de cette expédition tendant à explorer la Nouvelle-Guinée."
Please don´t hesitate to remark on any errors that I might have done transcribing those sentences.
And, finally: is there anything else added or mentioned in Schlegel's text that might be note-worthy?
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As I´m only focused on explaining the Swedish Bird Names this is the only "Bernstein Bird" that I´ve been checking out thoroughly, but it could be worth mentioning that the same Bernstein is also (according to various sources) commemorated in:
Scarlet-breasted Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus bernsteinii SCHLEGEL 1863
Chinese Crested-Tern (Thalasseus) Sterna bernsteini SCHLEGEL 1863
Sula Scrubfowl Megapodius (freycinet/cummingii) bernsteinii SCHLEGEL 1866
And in the subspecies:
Pitta erythrogaster bernsteini JUNGE 1958
Chalcopsitta atra bernsteini ROSENBERG 1861 (a k a Bernstein's Black Lory)
Pseudochirulus canescens bernsteini SCHLEGEL 1866
and the invalid: Eos bornea "bernsteini" (a k a Bernstein's Red Lory) ROSENBERG 1863
as well as other ; like the spider Sandalodes bernsteini THORELL 1881 or the moth Immetalia bernsteini VOLLENHOVEN 1863 and many more …