Names lacking in the Key (1 Viewer)

[James Jobling]

Thanks Björn,

I have added inverse to the inversus entry in The Key because it appears on p. 597 of the Bull. Soc. Vaudoise as Tetrao medius inverse. (Both Tetrao and medius are masculine: the new name should be inversus). However, I treat “Métis” as a vernacular name, from French métis hybrid.

James

 

[l_raty]

Even if apparently a hybrid, it's a scientific name (both) not listed in today's Key.

I do not think it is really intended as a scientific name.
"Métis" (= a crossbred) and "inverse" (= opposite) are both standard French words.
Italicization is used several time in this paper as a mean to underscore some French technical terms ("en lyre", "en éventail", etc.); and it is not applied consistently to this particular word, hence hard to use as conclusive evidence.
See, e.g., p. 596, where Fatio compares the "Tet. medius ordinaire" to the "Tet. medius inverse", where (1) "Tet. medius" is italicized but "inverse" is not, and (2) "inverse" should logically be given the same standing as "ordinaire", which is certainly a French word.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Ok, thanks Laurent! Who am I to doubt your interpretation and conclusion? I just spotted it, and, to me, it looked like a scientific name, but now I think you are fully correct.

I must admit that I was a bit puzzled by the 'fact' that I couldn't find an equivalent/corresponding (new) name for Fatio's second (i.e. the very first) bird, of those two/deux Tétras ...

Sigh, I really, really should stay away from those French texts.

Sorry for wasting your time. And James's (as well as others, of course).

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Not sure if the following ones truly are Scientific (Generic) names, but I think/guess so ...

All found in Jakob Theodor Klein's Historie der Vögel, 1760* (at first noticed on page 15, here):

• Hamiota (No.63, see p.128)
• Anomaloroster (No.66, see p.132)
• Jaculator (No.67, see p.134)
• Platiroster (No.69, see p.135)
• Coniroster (No.71, see p.143)
• Perversiroster (No.74, see p.150)

Neither one incl. in today's Key.

Just an observation, thus, take it for what it's worth ...

/B

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*Not incl. in the Key's List of References.

 

[l_raty]

Not sure if the following ones truly are Scientific (Generic) names, but I think/guess so ...

The work is not binominal (it was rejected as such by the Commission in Opinion 999), hence the names in it are not available.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Ok, Laurent, if so Klein sure managed to deceive me, but ok ... fair enough, I assume you are correct (as usual), though some of those names, also repeated in the Register der ausländischen Namen (here), does, or did, look scientific (and binary), at least to me (regardless if they today "are not available", or vice versa). However, I'm mostly wrong in cases like this, thus, I fold.

Cheers!

 

[James Jobling]

Thanks Bjorn and Laurent. I have made a short entry in The Key based on your remarks and findings (the other names are listed but refer to this entry/definition).

Jaculator (“Ardeidae; syn. Tigrisoma † Bare-throated Tiger Heron T. mexicanum”) L. iaculator fisherman, harpooner < iaculum javelin. In early 2023 Björn Bergenholtz brought to my attention a small group of generic names then missing from The Key. These were culled from Klein, 1760, Historie der Vögel, I, pp. 15-150, a work deemed non-binominal by ICZN, 1974, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 30, p. 80, Opinion 999, and hence unavailable (Laurent Raty in litt.). The published names, of varying hierarchical values, are Hamiota (L. hamiota angler), Anomaloroster (L. anomalos irregular; rostrum bill), Jaculator (see above), Platiroster (Gr. πλτυς platus broad), Coniroster (L. conus cone, apex), and Perversiroster (L. perversus awry, crooked). Jaculator is here singled out because of the three forms given, based on plates LXIV and LXV in Seba, 1734, Rerum Naturalium Thesaurus, I, two are woodpeckers (Picus viridis and Dendrocopos major) and the third, suspending belief and giving some latitude to the artist, a tiger-heron!

 

[l_raty]

mariettae, cf. my post here.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Here's a quick follow-up (on post/s #284–287), that might (maybe, maybe) could be worth some consideration/s ...

On top of the (all invalid) Generic names; "Hamiota", "Anomaloroster", "Jaculator", "Platiroster", "Coniroster" and "Perversiroster" (all incl. in today's Key, see here), in Jakob Theodor Klein's Verbesserte und vollständigere Historie der Vögel ..., a k a Historiae avium prodromus (1760, here) ... "a work deemed non-binominal by ICZN, 1974, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 30, p. 80, Opinion 999, and hence unavailable (Laurent Raty in litt.)" ...

I think (?!?) there might be even more post-Linnaean (post-1758) Generic names, in the same Work, that (in the same way, for the same reason/s?) isn't, or/alt. hasn't been, included in today's Key, for example:
• Tropicus
• Tronsor
• ... etc., etc.
[all seen on p. 15 (here), all with references onwards to resp. taxa/pages]

Though, if they, either one, truly were used, or intended, as Latin/Generic/Scientific names is (far) harder to understand, at least for me. If they, as such, even if all invalid (just like the ones mentioned above), as well should/could/might be included in the Key is even trickier to tell.

Also note that both "Cormorant.", and "Pinguin." were listed in the same way ... ?!?

But, if so, (either way); enjoy!

And, if not, take it for what it's worth, as nothing but an observation.

/B

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Here's a short question, as I simply happened to stumble upon "The miner-lark (Alauda fossor)" ...

Which (of today's) Bird species (or ssp.) would be equal of "The miner-lark (Alauda fossor)"[*], mentioned in The Architecture of Birds, by James Rennie, 1831, (here, in text), with a single refrerence, to "Sonnini's Azara, iii, 320", ... which I assume (!?) is a reference to "La Mineuse", of 1809 (here), "... une espèce nouvelle. (S.)" ...

Anyone who can Identify it?

Is the following text, here (all in French), from 1816, maybe of any help?

Just curious ...

Björn

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*"fossor" is not listed in today's Key (only defossor).

 

[l_raty]

Anyone who can Identify it?

Geositta cunicularia (Vieillot 1816), as per Smith & Clay 2021.