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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3614707" data-attributes="member: 24811">While perusing through Spix's work, I stumbled, interestingly, upon a rather similar (in my reading) name: Picus jumana Spix 1824:57 [<a href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_br_1918_017354-09#page/n162/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>]. In this particular case, Spix explained:(= ...named by me after the indian tribe Jumana...)These are the Jumána/Shumána/Yumána indians, another tribe from upper Amazon, which is also cited in Spix's Reise in Brasilien, e.g. [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28885793" target="_blank">here</a>].Note that Spix treated this name as(1) not adjectival, as he introduced it in combination with Picus, which is universally treated as masculine including, unquestionably, by Spix himself (combined with robustus, lineatus, dominicanus, ochraceus, macrocephalus, guttatus, hirundinaceus (in text, ablative hirundinaceo), icterocephalus; qualified in the text of being (in this order): niger, majusculus, niger, variegatus, fasciolatus, nominatus, cristatus, cinnamomeus, nominatus, majusculus, niger, lineatus, vocatus, commutatus, niger, sulfureus, solitarius, apellatus, niger, ferrugineus, maculatus, niger, stramineus, subcristatus, niger, fasciolatus, guttatus, nominatus, niger, fasciolatus, striatus, fasciolatus, olivaceus, fasciolatus, all of which without any exception are masculine), whithout making it agree in gender with this genus name; but even, apparently, as(2) wholly undeclinable, as he refrained from giving it the accusative -am ending (*), that any first-declension Latin word would have needed in the above-quoted sentence.Yet, to my surprise, I then discovered that David & Gosselin 2002 [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40416388" target="_blank">here</a>] made this name variable, arguing that it ends in a Latin adjectival suffix. (The name had been universally treated as invariable before this, see "Celeus elegans jumanus" [sic] in their Appendix [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40416413" target="_blank">here</a>].)So I'm a bit lost, now.------(*) ...or genitive plural -arum, meaning "the indian tribe of the Jumánas", then.</blockquote>

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