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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3335834" data-attributes="member: 24811">Great, thanks Mark!So these two names are definitely there, as subfam. Eurypyginae (p.43) and subfam. Himantopinae (p.44), then. Also interesting to me is Numenianae Selby 1840 (p.44 as well), vs. Numeninae Swainson 1840 [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668985" target="_blank">OD</a>].Interesting mixture of works bound together in a single volume, indeed. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />No doubt it exists. Meyer 1879 [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33272450" target="_blank">here</a>] also indicates that the text of Reichenbach's Tauben was published in two batches. And I find traces of the second part at various places on the web."Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Auslandes Vögel: beschreibender Text zu der vollständigsten Kupfersammlung der Vögel aller Welttheile; Abth. 2 [No. 3]: Neu entdeckte Taubenvögel und Nachträge zu den schon beschriebenen: 7 neue Tafeln mit 98 Abbildungen."But, so far, no scans...</blockquote>