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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3627969" data-attributes="member: 24811">Bonaparte's French was sometimes a bit convoluted, and he often passed very quickly over various subjects, which made him hard to follow. It wasn't 'drovoni' (as per Mark) which he said in the Delattre reprint to be from Guayaquil; it was another species that he there tentatively identified as "Call. peruvianus, Lesson". And it was neither 'drovoni' (as per Björn), nor this other species (as per <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36194716" target="_blank">Zimmer</a>), that he later described as masesus; this was still another bird.[<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53588632" target="_blank">Bonaparte 1854</a>]:= Let's add [...] to the peculiar genus Callirhynchus, besides Call. drovoni, Verreaux, a third species, smaller, pale-billed, coming from Guayaquil : [Latin starts] Very small, slightly greenish grey, with the rump of the same colour : with a white wing band : with a pale bill. [Latin ends] Would this not be Call. peruvianus, Lesson?(Callyrhynchus peruvianus Lesson 1842 is the type of Callyrhynchus Lesson 1842 by original monotypy: [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14714738" target="_blank">OD</a>].)[<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1212636" target="_blank">Bonaparte 1856</a>]:= The same thing happens again in the American genus Callirhynchus, Less. The species that we have described, after the specimen of the Muséum, is not the type species which the author presented, I think, to a museum of Belgium; I acquired a new proof of this by studying Lesson's manuscripts, which include, along with the original drawing of his type, many other figures and pieces of information valuable to science. Let's hope that the Muséum, to which the family of the deceased generously offers a selfless preference, will not let the chance to acquire such a treasure pass. Messrs. Verreaux described a third species, under the name of Callirhynchus drovoni, and I add here the characteristic phrase of a fourth one, which was just deposited in our great national institution along with other, no less precious, Fringillids.[Latin starts] » CALLIRHYNCHUS MASESUS, Bp. Fairly large ; greenish grey ; whitish below ; with the throat and the breast black, with two white jugular patches : with a white wing speculum : with the tail wholly grey : with the bill, particularly below, whitish. » [Latin ends]Note that 'drovoni' could never be available as the name of a new species from either of these two publications, as the bird is nowhere described.</blockquote>

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