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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 1677081" data-attributes="member: 31036">The bird should better be called Baillon's Shearwater or Berthelot's Shearwater!  Looking at the link you provided, Laurent, it lists a bird from the Mus. Taurin no. 3202 a Bonellio. 1820 ex Mediterraneo. And one from Madera from Baillon's collection in Abbeville. And one collected by  Berthelot on the Canaries but in the Paris Museum.  In Ornithologie européenne,  (Tome II) (1867) by Degland he states that he looked at two of the specimens in the Museum of Natural History in Paris which were used by Bonaparte to diagnose P. baroli.  One was from Sardinia (ex Mediterraneo) ie the Bonelli specimen and one from the Canary Islands, Berthelot's specimen. If someone uses three specimens to diagnose a new species and one of the three is not really a specimen of that species it should not be the one getting the right to name the bird!!  But here we have the connection to Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo.  There is a long connection between Turin, Piedmont and Sardinia through the House of Savoy.  So, Bonelli got the bird through the Sardinian connections of Barolo. Google the House of Savoy or the Kingdom of Sardinia, Cyprus, and Jerusalem, Duchy of Savoy and Montferrat, Principality of Piedmont. So C. Bonaparte took Bonelli's name for a Sardinian Shearwater (a Yelkouan?) for the name of a Madera or Canary Shearwater.<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JfxQmTS-dR0C&printsec=frontcover&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Baroli&f=false" target="_blank">http://books.google.com/books?id=JfxQmTS-dR0C&printsec=frontcover&client=firefox-a&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Baroli&f=false</a> .Page 379.</blockquote>

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