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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3297453" data-attributes="member: 113430">Here´s yet another issue, a long and lingering thread, stirred by my own awkward misspelling of the name of "Mr. H. Whitely" in the thread A wrongly spelt River … (<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=309312" target="_blank">here</a>)Thereby let's take a look at this (somewhat obscure) Collector … The main question for this thread is exactly that, spelling: What´s the correct spelling of the fairly well-known British naturalist, traveller and (large-scale) collector; Henry … is his surname written; Whitely … or Whiteley alt. Whitley  [i.e. Junior, 1844–1892]  … ?!? Ok, first, let´s deal with "his" Hummingbirds!? Described and named by the recently discussed French trochilidist Adolphe Boucard.[Note: Bold's and under-linings in the following quotes are all made by me]whitelyi● in the long-debated "Phaethornis whitelyi" BOUCARD 1891 (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127790#page/44/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>)  a k a "Phaethornis bourcieri whitelyi" [? junior synonym of Phaethornis b. bourcieri LESSON 1832] ● in "Uranomitra whitelyi" BOUCARD 1893 (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127783#page/18/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>) a k a "Amazilia chionopectus whitelyi" [? Syn. or subspecies Amazilia brevirostris brevirostris/whitelyi] ● in the invalid "Eremita whitelyi" BOUCARD 1895 (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127771#page/234/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>) [Syn. Phaethornis ruber episcopus GOULD 1857] All three = Henry  W… [Junior*] ----------------I assume we´re here talking of the fairly well-known British Naturalist, traveller and collector (of both birds and insects) Henry Whitely [Junior] (1844–1892), [alt. Whiteley or Whitley?] … who made his first expedition to Japan in 1864, and then in 1867 explored Peru, and onwards the Amazons and British Guiana. Born the 18th of June 1844 in Woolwich, England … and he died on the 11th of July, 1892, "in the interior of British Guyana, ...". See the Obituary of Henry Whitely in the Humming Bird 1895 (Introduction, p.14, <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127771#page/18/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>). However: As the OD of "Uranomitra whitelyi", the first  one commemorating the memory of the "late Mr. Henry W…"  was published in Boucard's own journal The Hummingbird Vol III, No. 1 (March 1983) the claim of his  death year in that Obituary, of 1895, (there; "Henry Whitely, Traveller-Naturalist, died on the 11th of July, 1893", a year often repeated!) clearly must be wrong.  It´s not easy to be "the late Mr. Henry …" in March 1893, when you´re about to die, for months later, in July the same year [i.e. conlusion he died 1892]! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Also  compare with the Obituary of the same Henry Whitely (Jr) in The Ibis 1883 (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85192#page/317/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*In the above mentioned birds not to confuse (which has been done!) with his father and namesake, Henry Whitxxxxx?…. however written [Senior] (1817–1898). Nor should he be mixed up with the English businessman and aviculturalist Herbert Whitley (1886–1955), the latter commemorated in (the most likely extinct or simply a hybrid); "Cyanoliseus whitleyi"  KINNEAR 1926 a k a "Whitley's Parakeet.To be continued …---</blockquote>

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