Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Nothing much, nothing truly 'new' (and certainly nothing contradictory) to what we already know, only some minor info, simply some details (a Birth Place/Nationality, some Military Ranks, etc.), of the guy commemorated in ...
dunni as in:
• Dunn's Lark (Ammomanes) Eremalauda dunni SHELLEY 1904 (here) as "Calendula dunni" ... [erroneously* – !?!]: "Named after its discoverer Major W. H. Dunn.", collected at "Ogageh, Sudan, Nov. 20, 1902."
In today's Key explained as:
Also note that Shelley's "misprint" (in 1904) seems to be only re. the initials of Dunn, not of his rank.
In short: Born 7 September 1864, in Kinsale, Cork, Ireland ... Military ranks: he was a mere Lieutenant in 1893, a Captain in 1896 ("Captain H. N. Dunn served with the Dongola Expeditionary Force under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1896") here or here, (p.958), and in 1902 he was still a "Captain" (when the types were collected), as well as in 1903 (here) ... thereafter a Major in 1904**, see here (when the OD was published, dated "18th of May, 1904), as well, still a Major in 1909 , and in 1911, here (p.105), and onwards ... thereafter climbing the ranks, to Lieut.-Col. in 1918, and so on ... all the way, until he became a Colonel (brevet?) .. and, as such, he died, on the 21st of October 1952, in Bath, England (burried at his Birth place (see his grave, here).
For other example/s, see the Edinburgh Gazette, of 26 September, 1902 (here), or the London Gazette, 15 May, 1903 (here), from when he's still a "Captain", versus the (Sixth supplement to) The London Gazette,dated the 5th (and 8th) of March, 1918 (here, first page):
Enjoy!
Björn
PS. As well, note that Mearns & Mearns (2022)*** (also) has him (in Vol. 1, pp.107–108) as:
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*I assume the Key's reference; "(C. S. Houston 1989)" (even if not listed among its References!?), ought to be this one here (p.755, top right column), which was/is a review (pp. 754-756) of Biographies for Birdwatchers, by Barbara Mearns & Richard Mearns (1988).
** The same Dunn is also commemorated in, for examples, in the following two Non-Birds;
dunni as in:
• Dunn's Lark (Ammomanes) Eremalauda dunni SHELLEY 1904 (here) as "Calendula dunni" ... [erroneously* – !?!]: "Named after its discoverer Major W. H. Dunn.", collected at "Ogageh, Sudan, Nov. 20, 1902."
In today's Key explained as:
... which might/could be expanded into the Irish Dr. Henry Nason Dunn (1864–1952), ... and onwards (just as we're told in the Key): ... from 1904 stationed in India [in the Royal (Army) Medical Corps].
Also note that Shelley's "misprint" (in 1904) seems to be only re. the initials of Dunn, not of his rank.
In short: Born 7 September 1864, in Kinsale, Cork, Ireland ... Military ranks: he was a mere Lieutenant in 1893, a Captain in 1896 ("Captain H. N. Dunn served with the Dongola Expeditionary Force under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1896") here or here, (p.958), and in 1902 he was still a "Captain" (when the types were collected), as well as in 1903 (here) ... thereafter a Major in 1904**, see here (when the OD was published, dated "18th of May, 1904), as well, still a Major in 1909 , and in 1911, here (p.105), and onwards ... thereafter climbing the ranks, to Lieut.-Col. in 1918, and so on ... all the way, until he became a Colonel (brevet?) .. and, as such, he died, on the 21st of October 1952, in Bath, England (burried at his Birth place (see his grave, here).
For other example/s, see the Edinburgh Gazette, of 26 September, 1902 (here), or the London Gazette, 15 May, 1903 (here), from when he's still a "Captain", versus the (Sixth supplement to) The London Gazette,dated the 5th (and 8th) of March, 1918 (here, first page):
Enjoy!
Björn
PS. As well, note that Mearns & Mearns (2022)*** (also) has him (in Vol. 1, pp.107–108) as:
/B
*I assume the Key's reference; "(C. S. Houston 1989)" (even if not listed among its References!?), ought to be this one here (p.755, top right column), which was/is a review (pp. 754-756) of Biographies for Birdwatchers, by Barbara Mearns & Richard Mearns (1988).
** The same Dunn is also commemorated in, for examples, in the following two Non-Birds;
• the Somalia gerbil Gerbillus dunni [OLDFIELD] THOMAS 1904 (here), as "Gerbilus (s. s.) Dunni" (also see p.94): "... obtained in Somaliland by Major H. N. Dunn, R.A.M.C. [Royal Army Medical Corps] ..."
• the debated "Northern Field-Mouse" Mus "dunni" WROUGHTON 1912 (here) as "Leggada dunni" "... collected 1st of January 1909, in Punjab, India, by "Major H. N. Dunn, R.A.M.C. [The latter today (most often) considered as a synonym of either Earth-colored mouse Mus terricolor BLYTH 1851/2? alt. Mus booduga GRAY 1837].
*** Biographies for Birdwatchers – The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names (Revised and expanded edition), by Barbara Mearns and Richard Mearns (662 pages, in two volumes), © 2022.
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