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[PScofield]

grantia McClelland 1840

Here

Dr. Grant, of the Bombay Medical Service, formerly in Medical charge of Dr. Lord's Mission, liberally presented me with an excellent series of specimens from the valley of Syghan

Here

Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930, p 447:

GRANT, GEORGE MORRISON. B. 30 Dec 1815. A.S. 11 Apr. 1838. Surg. Turkistan Pol. Agency, 1841. Afghanistan, 1839-41, capture of Ghuzni; (P.R.); killed in action, in retreat from Charekar to Kabul, 15 Nov 1841. V. Hist. of I.M.S. ii 205, 206, 476.

"Dr Lord's mission" to Afghanistan was one of the greatest disasters of the British Empire during the 19th century (indeed ever) and Dr Grant was one of the only survivors of Dr Lord's mission however he died later in the "war". This series of comical/ tragic disasters is now called the "first Anglo-Afghan War" but was remembered as the “Disaster in Afghanistan” by the British. Yet more evidence that nothing ever changes...

 

[PScofield]

re: Strix aluco sanctinicolai (Zarudny, 1905)

The honoree is 100% certain

The reason is the only unclear thing...

 

[kweetal]

I've made a genusname search through the Aves names in the GBIF backbone taxonomy [1] (I used the .txtree file), and found only these names, (all four obvious typos; as so often, it's unclear where the error occurred).

Brachyrampus
Burgeranus
Chilidonias
Pteroicnemia

The epithet-search yielded many more (species and subspecies) Key-absentees ( > 100 epithets) so there may be some real names hiding in there but I have to filter that list better (sometime later).

[1] GBIF Hosted Datasets

 

[James Jobling]

Paul,
Really good work on denisea and grantia, although I wouldn’t agree that the Retreat from Kabul 1842 was the greatest disaster ever for the British Empire; what about Yorktown 1781, Chillianwalla 1849 (pyrrhic), Isandhlwana 1879, or Khartoum 1885 – and not forgetting WWI? Plus ça change …. now it is the turn of the Russian and Chinese empires.

 

[kweetal]

txtfile (csv) with epithets from GBIF/Aves (based on from 20230828 .txtree file), mostly typo's but just maybe a few new ones.

(I added a url into gbif.org where all these should be findable.)

-kweetal

 

[James Jobling]

Erikjan, regret cannot access your attachments.

 

[kweetal]

Maybe this works better...

bourki         =Neophema bourki (Gould, 1841) [species] {ID=46Q3T}       https://www.gbif.org/search?q=bourki
cherinus       =Cisticola cherinus (A. Smith, 1843) [species] {ID=VLDZ}  https://www.gbif.org/search?q=cherinus
chiri          =Psittacus chiri Vieillot, 1818 [species] {ID=C4JTD}      https://www.gbif.org/search?q=chiri
chrysomelaena  =Chrysothlypis chrysomelaena (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1869) [species] {ID=V2D7}   https://www.gbif.org/search?q=chrysomelaena
cinnamonina    =Halcyon cinnamonina Swainson, 1821 [species] {ID=6KY3N}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=cinnamonina
cirrhochloris  =Aphantochroa cirrhochloris (Vieillot, 1818) [species] {ID=8HTXW}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=cirrhochloris
constanii      =Ornismya constanii Delattre, 1843 [species] {ID=8KQ6K}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=constanii
cyanopecta     =Alcedo cyanopecta (Lafresnaye, 1840) [species] {ID=5TW6W}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=cyanopecta
dorriesi      =Iyngipicus dorriesi Hargitt, 1881 [species] {ID=7VJPN}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=dorriesi
duvaucelli    =Charadrius duvaucelli R. Lesson, 1826 [species] {ID=9J553}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=duvaucelli
forticatus    =Elanoides forticatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [species] {ID=38YJ2}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=forticatus
guildingi     =Amazona guildingi (Vigors, 1837) [species] {ID=5TZTK}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=guildingi
gulielmiterti  =Opopsitta gulielmiterti (Schlegel, 1866) [species] {ID=6SS6M}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=gulielmiterti
hammondi       =Empidonax hammondi (Xantus de Vesey, 1858) [species] {ID=39HWJ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=hammondi
huetti        =Psittacus huetti Temminck, 1830 [species] {ID=C3KY3}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=huetti
imperalis     =Amazona imperalis Richmond, 1899 [species] {ID=65ZTK}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=imperalis
leucopthalmus  =Aratinga leucopthalmus (P. L. S. Müller, 1776) [species] {ID=G65T}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=leucopthalmus
levaillantoides  =Francolinus levaillantoides (A. Smith, 1836) [species] {ID=6JLFD}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=levaillantoides
lombokius      Sugomel lombokius (Mathews, 1926) [species] {ID=8TZYF}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=lombokius
middendorffi   =Anser middendorffi Severtsov, 1873 [species] {ID=9HH68}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=middendorffi
olivae         =Columba olivae S. Clarke, 1918 [species] {ID=XBGC}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=olivae
origensis      =Collocalia origensis Oberholser, 1906 [species] {ID=8KQLJ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=origensis
pindateanus    =Francolinus pindateanus (Scopoli, 1786) [species] {ID=6JLF5}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=pindateanus
poecilorhynca  =Anas poecilorhynca J. R. Forster, 1781 [species] {ID=DGP7}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=poecilorhynca
pritchardi     =Megapodius pritchardi G. R. Gray, 1864 [species] {ID=3YWV7}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=pritchardi
reevesi        =Syrmaticus reevesi (J. E. Gray, 1829) [species] {ID=542SJ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=reevesi
rimatarae      =Acrocephalus rimatarae (Murphy & Mathews, 1929) [species] {ID=9L7N}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=rimatarae
roseum         =Larus roseum W. MacGillivray, 1824 [species] {ID=BWSC2}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=roseum
rufolaratus    =Podiceps rufolaratus Delacour, 1932 [species] {ID=4KPPC}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=rufolaratus
salanganus     =Aerodramus salanganus (Streubel, 1848) [species] {ID=64Z55}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=salanganus
scintillatus   =Psittacus scintillatus Temminck, 1835 [species] {ID=C4JMG}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=scintillatus
specularoides   =Lophonetta specularoides (P. P. King, 1828) [species] {ID=3W3QL}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=specularoides
subruficapillus   =Cisticola subruficapillus (A. Smith, 1843) [species] {ID=VLFC}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=subruficapillus
weddelli        =Aratinga weddelli (Deville, 1851) [species] {ID=G664}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=weddelli
ypsilophora     =Coturnix ypsilophora ypsilophora Bosc, 1792 [subspecies] {ID=BQKSQ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=ypsilophora
altiaca         =Carduelis flavirostris altiaca (Sushkin, 1925) [subspecies] {ID=BQD65}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=altiaca
articola        =Calidris alpina articola (Todd, 1953) [subspecies] {ID=5G4DL}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=articola
berlpschi       Tolmomyias sulphurescens berlpschi (Hartert & Goodson, 1917) [subspecies] {ID=7KTHJ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=berlpschi
catoleucus      Myioparus plumbeus catoleucus (Reichenow, 1900) [subspecies] {ID=7KCHT}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=catoleucus
cinnamonea    =Tringa solitaria cinnamonea (Brewster, 1890) [subspecies] {ID=5LM3V}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=cinnamonea
coronutus    =Podiceps auritus coronutus (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) [subspecies] {ID=5KJM3}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=coronutus
couchi    =Aphelocoma ultramarina couchi (S. F. Baird, 1858) [subspecies] {ID=5FPSK}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=couchi
elegantulus    =Schoeniclus elegans elegantulus (Swinhoe, 1870) [subspecies] {ID=9G8KR}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=elegantulus
elgonenesis    =Serinus gularis elgonenesis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1912) [subspecies] {ID=7L3QL}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=elgonenesis
flavidor    =Trogon aurantiiventris flavidor (Griscom, 1925) [subspecies] {ID=8VN4Q}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=flavidor
fortuita    =Poecile atricapillus fortuita (W. L. Dawson & J. H. Bowles, 1909) [subspecies] {ID=BNWCV}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=fortuita
garrina    =Poecile atricapillus garrina (Behle, 1951) [subspecies] {ID=BNWCW}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=garrina
gucenense    =Trochalopteron henrici gucenense (D. Li, Wang & Jiang, 1978) [subspecies] {ID=BJ6HW}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=gucenense
hutchinsi    =Branta canadensis hutchinsi (Richardson, 1832) [subspecies] {ID=BQ8KG}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=hutchinsi
isonata    =Collocalia linchi isonata Oberholser, 1906 [subspecies] {ID=8KQKJ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=isonata
krideri    =Buteo jamaicensis krideri Hoopes, 1873 [subspecies] {ID=BN4B7}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=krideri
krishnarkumarsinhji    =Calandrella raytal krishnarkumarsinhji Vaurie & Dharmakumarsinhji, 1954 [subspecies] {ID=5G45H}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=krishnarkumarsinhji
marcgravinianus    =Momotus momota marcgravinianus Pinto & Camargo, 1961 [subspecies] {ID=5JQTG}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=marcgravinianus
melanopleurus    Turdus flavipes melanopleurus (Sharpe, 1900) [subspecies] {ID=BP6C9}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=melanopleurus
muscula    Locustella castanea muscula (Stresemann, 1914) [subspecies] {ID=7JYWS}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=muscula
naumbergi    =Brachygalba lugubris naumbergi Chapman, 1931 [subspecies] {ID=BQ8HL}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=naumbergi
novaecaledonia    =Turnix varius novaecaledonia Ogilvie-Grant, 1889 [subspecies] {ID=C4729}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=novaecaledonia
parkmani    =Troglodytes aedon parkmani Audubon, 1839 [subspecies] {ID=BP62W}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=parkmani
roceatii    Anthoscopus caroli roceatii Salvadori, 1906 [subspecies] {ID=5FNMX}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=roceatii
rubiginosis    Calamanthus campestris rubiginosis A. J. Campbell, 1899 [subspecies] {ID=BN4GV}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=rubiginosis
sequestriatus    =Baeolophus inornatus sequestriatus Grinnell & Swarth, 1926 [subspecies] {ID=BQ78H}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=sequestriatus
smaragadina    =Ducula chalconota smaragadina Mayr, 1931 [subspecies] {ID=BQP26}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=smaragadina
stejengeri    =Hemignathus ellisianus stejengeri S. B. Wilson, 1889 [subspecies] {ID=5HN7B}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=stejengeri
teraoki    =Ducula oceanica teraoki (Momiyama, 1922) [subspecies] {ID=BQP29}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=teraoki
vodermani    =Treron griseicauda vodermani Finsch, 1900 [subspecies] {ID=5LL72}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=vodermani
yamakensis    =Harpactes erythrocephalus yamakensis Rickett, 1899 [subspecies] {ID=5HLJ4}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=yamakensis
ypsilophora    =Coturnix ypsilophora ypsilophora Bosc, 1792 [subspecies] {ID=BQKSQ}    https://www.gbif.org/search?q=ypsilophora

 

[James Jobling]

Erikjan,
Many thanks for your latest list of terms for inclusion in The Key.
I have treated -i and/or -ii as variants, but added gender differences -us, -a, -um, where necessary.
Only cirrhochloris was new to The Key; it is in my MS but I hadn’t copy/pasted it over – I wonder how many more of them there are!

 

[James Jobling]

Spurred again by Erikjan’s #291 calculations I searched my MS for unresolved eponyms, and found 33 (but see Björn’s #298 caveat). The missing dedicatees are as follows (full citations and further texts in The Key):
almae Oberholser 1898, annae Hartlaub & Finsch 1868, burvedii Blyth 1843, crawfordi Bonaparte 1854, disneyi Mathews 1912, Dorisella Wolters 1980, Dorisornis Wolters 1980, dorotheae Wolters 1980, Edela Lesson 1830, elenae Lowe 1921, elvirae Mulsant Verreaux & Verreaux 1866, emma Hartlaub 1890, enidae Mathews 1912, evangelinae d'Albertis & Salvadori 1879, evelynae Bourcier 1847, faustine Reichenbach 1854, georginae Bourcier 1847, hildamariae Mathews 1934, innae Portenko 1955, joanae Mathews 1941, julietae Mathews 1942, Julietata Mathews 1943, lucieni Sharpe & Bouvier 1878, manueli White 1945, margarithae Salvadori & d’Albertis 1875, mariae Bourcier & Mulsant 1846, mariae Dementiev 1932, marianae Biswas 1952, monica Mathews 1926, rasselti Brehm 1856, romani Rusconi 1958, violetae Mathews 1912, youngi Mathews 1912.

P.S. Does anyone want to buy a second-hand football team?

 

[Taphrospilus]

evangelinae

From Ercole Turati 1829–1881 – EFL - Enciclopedia delle Famiglie Lombarde i somehow doubt the speculation The Key to Scientific Names - Birds of the World

; perhaps after a relative of the Conte Turati, who brought the specific differences of this finch to the attention of the authors (subsp. Neochmia phaeton).

Neither parents nor spouse nor children seem to have the name Evangelina.

 

[l_raty]

mariae Dementiev 1932

I've added some thoughts about this one in an old thread created by Martin, back in 2020 : here.

 

[kweetal]

FWIW, in the recent Clements 2024Draft , there is only one Key-absent word form:

flaviricta

(which might be good to add to 'flavirictus')

 

[l_raty]

FWIW, in the recent Clements 2024Draft , there is only one Key-absent word form:

flaviricta

(which might be good to add to 'flavirictus')

The combination "Meliphaga flaviricta", as used in the spreadsheet, is not known to Google, and has probably never been used in a publication. The change of ending is unjustified -- the name ends in rictus, which is a noun (in the nominative singular), and makes this name unchangeable so far as nomenclature is concerned.

Let's hope they don't proceed with this.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

... rasselti Brehm 1856 ...

Quick one, re. Anthus/Corydalla "rasselti "

In today's Key explained (more like unexplained ) as:

rasselti
Eponym; dedicatee not yet identified (Brehm, 1856, Naumannia, VI, p. 463) (syn. Anthus richardi).

The reference to Naumannia = here, though nothing indicating it as new, simply mentioned, in text (by Blasius) as "Corydalla Rasselti, Brehm", which implies that Brehm (either Sr., or Jr.) ought to have used this name elsewhere.

Couldn't it simply be a typo for (Corydalla/Anthus) hasselti SCHLEGEL (1857, ex Temminck, MMS). See here (alt. here).

And, if so, (according to the Key) it ought to be a synonym of today's (Paddyfield/Oriental) Pipit ssp. Anthus rufulus malayensis Eyton, 1839.

Or?

Either way, take it for whatever it's worth, it's just an idea (based only on what's shown in the links above).

/B

 

[l_raty]

The reference to Naumannia = here, though nothing indicating it as new, simply mentioned, in text (by Blasius) as "Corydalla Rasselti, Brehm", indicating that Brehm (either Sr., or Jr.) ought to have used this name elsewhere.

Couldn't it simply be a typo for (Corydalla/Anthus) hasselti SCHLEGEL (1857, ex Temminck, MMS). See here (alt. here).

Blasius there was commenting on a paper that Brehm (Sr.) had published earlier in the same journal -- on p. 459, he wrote :

Die schon seit einigen Jahren auf der Tagesordnung stehende Pieper-Frage ist nicht allein noch nicht erledigt, sondern durch das Referat von Brehm in der Naumannia 1856 p. 337 von der endlichen Erledigung nur noch weiter entfernt worden.

On p. 337 of this volume of Naumannia, Brehm had used Corydalla Hasselti for a Javanese relative of the Richard's Pipit.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

FWIW, in the recent Clements 2024Draft , there is only one Key-absent word form:

flaviricta

(which might be good to add to 'flavirictus')

The combination "Meliphaga flaviricta", as used in the spreadsheet, is not known to Google, and has probably never been used in a publication. The change of ending is unjustified -- the name ends in rictus, which is a noun (in the nominative singular), and makes this name unchangeable so far as nomenclature is concerned.

...

For what it's worth, in 1902–1904, Dubois used "flaviricta" in:

1329. PTILOTIS​

Ptilotis, Sw. (1837) ...
[...]
9290. ...
[...]
--2459. Var. FLAVIRICTA, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., 1880, p. 76; id., Orn. Pap. II, p. 332.

[here, as well as in the Table alphabétique/Index (here) as: "flaviricta (Ptilotis), 720"]​

That is, even if Dubois's two references (of course) both takes us to Salvadori's: Ptilotis flavirictus ... (here, resp. here).

If relevant?



/B

 

[l_raty]

If relevant?

OK. It makes this spelling worth to be mentioned, then, I guess.
Anyway, I've left a comment in the spreadsheet noting that flavirictus is correct, we'll see what they do of it.

 

[l_raty]

romani Rusconi 1958

From Revista del Museo de Historia Natural de Mendoza :

AVE FOSIL DEL PLIOCENO DE BUENOS AIRES
por
CARLOS RUSCONI

I​

Durante uno de los viajes realizados a la costa del río de la Plata y aprovechando una de las frecuentes bajantes del río, el señor Oscar L. Román, simpatizante a la paleontología, ha podido exhumar de los conocidos "toscales" diversos restos de mamíferos, y entre ellos el cráneo de un ave pequeña que, dada su rareza, lo ofrezco en el presente.
Como se sabe, las playas del río de la Plata, especialmente desde las estaciones de Olivos hasta Punta Chica, han sido recorridas por distinguidos investigadores desde hace más de un siglo: Bravard, Burmeister, Roth, De Carles, C. Ameghino, Rusconi y muchos otros estudiosos. Pero la casi totalidad de las colecciones fósiles exhumadas del horizonte Ensenadense, se refieren a diferentes grupos de mamíferos y de algunos otros vertebrados inferiores. Las aves, en cambio, han sido sumamente raras, sea por la naturaleza de sus huesos pneumáticos o bien porque la avifauna pampeana no era tan abundante como en la actualidad o tiempos históricos. Por consiguiente, cualquier hallasgo relacionado con este grupo, siempre llama la atención.​

DESCRIPCION
Ord. TINAMIFORMES
Fam. ? TINAMIDAE
Querandiornis Romani n. g. n. sp. (1)​

Tipo. Cráneo casi completo atrás y destruído en la región rostral. De la mandíbula se conserva gran parte del hueso dental.

(1) Querandiornis Querandí. Tribu aguerrida y casi extinguida a fines de 1500. Tenía su asiento en una parte de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y lo restante hacia el Noroeste de la provincia. La especie es dedicada a su descubridor.​

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Well done, Laurent!

Thus, the dedicatee: "... señor Oscar L. Román, simpatizante a la paleontología" ... ought to be the (most likely) Argentinian guy, señor Oscar Román (mentioned here, in text, back in 1938), ... doesn't it?

Who he was? I haven't got a clue (I've never heard of him before).

Either way: Good luck finding him (in full)!

/B

 

[Taphrospilus]

From Ercole Turati 1829–1881 – EFL - Enciclopedia delle Famiglie Lombarde i somehow doubt the speculation The Key to Scientific Names - Birds of the World



Neither parents nor spouse nor children seem to have the name Evangelina.

If I read https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/pstorage-leicester-213265548798/18270764/BoettcherPhD.pdf

Ethelin: born 1817; lived in Ancona; married Count Luigi Salvadori; ten children including Tommaso Salvadori, world famous ornithologist, who married hiscousin, Bertha King, (Bertha Welby’s daughter); died 1895.

So it would be nice to know all the names of 9 sisters and brothers including husbands and wifes.

We can find e.g in the key:

bertae
Bertha Ethelin Salvadori Paleotti née King (1844-1904) English wife of Italian ornithologist Adelardo Tommaso Conte Salvadori Paleotti (syn. Pitta nympha).

or

emma / emmae
● Emma Salvadori née Jourdan (1846-1928) wife of Alfredo Salvadori and sister-in-law of Count Salvadori (Pyrrhura).

So why not a Evangelina Salvadori?