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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3297962" data-attributes="member: 24811">Just to add another one:Athene whiteleyi Blyth 1867 [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8455597" target="_blank">OD</a>], [<a href="http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Atel/atel00087a.jpg" target="_blank">Richmond Index card</a>].Proposed for a Japanese bird previously assumed to be Athene cuculoides, now in Glaucidium.No explicit dedication. Blyth credits only Gurney, for having called his attention to this bird's peculiarities. The Richmond Index card associates the name to Henry Whitely Jr.--presumably based on its declared Japanese origin, and on HW Jr having being known to have collected in this country?Currently in use as Glaucidium (Taenioglaux) cuculoides whiteleyi, from China, Myanmar and Vietnam. (But not Japan.)Often spelled "whitelyi" (eg., [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14476605" target="_blank">Peters 1940</a>], but also in many other earlier works), but this departs from the OS; currently listed under this spelling in the Key. (But the spelling is correct in [<a href="http://www.hbw.com/species/asian-barred-owlet-glaucidium-cuculoides" target="_blank">HBW Alive</a>] itself.)</blockquote>