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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3628192" data-attributes="member: 24811">Indeed: it's the bird that would come from Grenoble; without being really explicit, the sentence might be read as implying that it had to travel to reach Drevon, hence that the latter resided elsewhere (at this time).OTOH, Bouteille 1843 [<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=e-A4rTGf2fwC&pg=PA506&dq=drevon" target="_blank">here</a>] mentioned a bird specimen (a white yellowhammer) that he said was "chez M. Drevon, à Grenoble" = at M. Drevon's, in Grenoble. In Vol. 2 of the same work [<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OwveLtSQ338C&pg=PA330&dq=drevon" target="_blank">here</a>], Bouteille cited Drevon again, adding that he was "gantier" = a glover... But this was almost a quarter of a century earlier than Degland & Gerbe's work, and might as well be entirely unrelated to what these authors reported, I think.In this work (Berlioz 1948), Drevon's name is quoted from the registers of the collections of the Muséum, which said that a particular hummingbird specimen had been "acquis par échange de M. Drevon" = acquired by exchange from M. Drevon in 1864.The label of the same specimen was also quoted by Simon 1923 [<a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51976754" target="_blank">here</a>] as reading: "Ornismyia, Eucephala smaragdocœrulea Gould, acquis en échange de M. Drevon en 1864, Brésil." = Ornismyia, Eucephala smaragdocœrulea Gould, acquired in exchange from M. Drevon in 1864, Brazil.In [<a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q="drevon"+naturaliste" target="_blank">Google Books</a>], several publications from the years 1850-60 mention a Drevon, naturaliste, à Paris.A (less successful?) colleague of Parzudaki?</blockquote>

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