“Salvador's [sic] Owlet-nightjar” Yes the dude’s name Was Tommie Salvadori, (ok, Conte Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti )so it should be Salvadori’s Owlet-nightjar. “Isn't it Aegotheles (albertisi) salvadori (one i)?” The genitive case of a noun salvadori would be salvadorii, right? With a Latin or Latinized name you strike the last vowel and add an ‘i' to the stub, so salvadori seems right??? Does it depend on if you use ICZN 31.1 or 31.2? Actually if Salvadori is considered a modern name the bird’s name should be salvadori?? I am confused.
His Mother was English, as was his wife Bertha King, (a cousin!) So perhaps Hartert named it after Conte & Contessa Salvadori. ???? No that would be salvadorum? The original description is salvadorii with two ‘i' s.
5. AEgotheles salvadorii.
Above dark brown ; forehead and sides of the crown with brownish-white mottlings, centre and hinder part of crown nearly uniform ; a distinct whitish collar on the hind neck, whitish transverse mottlings on all the upper parts, some few larger pale spots to the upper wing-coverts and scapulars ; quills spotted with buff on the outer webs, uniform deep brown on the inner webs ; rectrices with narrow pale bars across both webs, these being more distinct on the outer webs : lower parts buff, each feather with blackish shaft-etripes and spots near the shaft ; throat and breast more spotted and darker; lower abdomen and lower tail-coverts more uniform ; under wing-coverts dark brown, spotted with buffy white : upper mandible brown ; feet pale. Total length about 8 inches, wing 4-6 to 4-8, tail 4-22, tarsus 0'79.
Another specimen is more rufous above, the bars on the tail dark rufous-brown, the lower parts similar.
I have found it necessary to give a new name to these two specimens, as they do not agree with any of the species that I have seen, nor with the descriptions of those that I have not seen. It may after all belong to Ae. albertisi, but I greatly doubt it.
Hab. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New Guinea.
Here is T. Pratt (2000)
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v117n01/index.php .
It discusses a Vogelkop population of A. insignis?
