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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3366142" data-attributes="member: 24811">Based on the synonymy in <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2750232" target="_blank">Hellmayr & Conover 1948</a>:- <a href="http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10076217_00665.html" target="_blank">Chaja torquata Oken 1816</a> is the earliest name, but does not seem to have been used again in the 19th C.- <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41945129" target="_blank">Palamedia cristata Swainson 1837</a> comes next. "Palamedia Linn.", in Swainson 1837, is an incorrect subsequent spelling of <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946428" target="_blank">Palamedea Linn. 1766</a>: Palamedia cristata Swainson is a primary homonym of <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946428" target="_blank">Palamedea cristata Linn. 1766</a>, hence permanently invalid. Yet it was apparently used universally until the early 20th C.- "Chauna torquata (Oken)" was then suggested to be used by <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7495446" target="_blank">Richmond 1908</a> (footnote).- <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14356525" target="_blank">Chauna salvadorii Brabourne & Chubb 1912</a> was soon after proposed as a new replacement name for Palamedia cristata Swainson nec Linn.If Oken 1816 is not binominal, could Chauna torquata be deemed available from Richmond 1908? Although Richmond did not describe the bird, he did give a reference to Oken's work, where a description can be found -- albeit the reference was in fact more closely associated to the generic name Chaja, than to the specific name itself...</blockquote>

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