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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 3690027" data-attributes="member: 31036">Thanks Laurent for all this work. Mathews did not make it easy.Colluricincla rufiventris carteri – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Thomas Carter (1863-1931) English ornithologist, collector, pastoralist, explorer in Australia 1886-1921… syn. Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris    Zosterops australasiae edwini – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Edwin Ashby (1861-1941) English conchologist, ornithologist, settled in Australia, founder member of RAOU (syn. Zosterops lateralis chloronotus).Aegintha temporalis ashbyi – no obvious clue in OD. Key Edwin Ashby again, syn. Aegintha temporalisLichmera indistincta milligani – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Alexander William Milligan (1858-1921) Australian ornithologist, founder member of the RAOU. syn. Lichmera indistincta.Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera mixta – no obvious clue in OD. Key: L. mixtus  mixed, mingled  < miscere  to mix.Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Archibald James Campbell (1853-1929) Australian ornithologist, collector . subsp. Phylidonyris novaehollandiae(ex Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina Campbell, 1906)Meliornis novaehollandiae intermedius – no obvious clue in OD. Key: L. intermedius  intermediate, that is between.Coleia carunculata clelandi – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Prof. Sir John Burton Cleland (1878-1971) Australian pathologist, mycologist, ornithologist. subsp. Anthochaera carunculata .Neophilemon orientalis confusus – no obvious clue in OD.  From Type Specimens of the AMNH  Part 9 LeCroy 2011.  Mathews (1912a: 422) had originally considered the northeast Queensland Philemon to be Philemon buceroides (Swainson), restricting Swainson’s type locality to Cairns when he (Mathews, 1912d: 102) named the Cape York population P. b. yorki. The generic name Neophilemon was introduced by Mathews (1912e: 117) with Philemon buceroides as the type species. Immediately thereafter, he (Mathews, 1912e: 117) introduced the generic name Microphilemon with Buphaga orientalis Latham (5 Tropidorhynchus citreogularis Gould) as the type species. When Hellmayr (1916: 101–102) found that Swainson’s type of P. buceroides was from Timor, not Australia, he accepted Mathews’ name yorki for the Australian form, accorded it full species status, and considered Mathews’ name gordoni a subspecies of P. yorki. The Australasian Ornithologists’ Union Check List Committee having pointed out to Mathews that Latham’s and Gould’s names were not synonyms, Mathews (1923b: 39) then used Neophilemon orientalis (Latham) as the species name for the northern Australian populations of P. buceroides, restricting the type locality of nominate Neophilemon orientalis to Cooktown. Thus, this left the Cairns population, formerly bearing Swainson’s name, to be accounted for; Mathews’ (1923b: 39) solution was to immediately name Neophilemon orientalis confusus from Cairns.I think the bird name history is confusing. Zonaeginthus bellus rosinae – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Ethel Rosina White (1876-1926) wife of Australian ornithologist Capt. Samuel White. syn. Stagonopleura bella samueli.Neopoephila personata hilli – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Gerald Freer Hill (1880-1954) Australian entomologist, explorer, collector (syn. Poephila personata) Type Species of AMNH “Mathews (1926: 253) quoted both Hill and Barnard as having observed these birds at Borroloola”Corvus cecilae problëema – no obvious clue in OD. Key: probleema / problemaGr. προβλημα problēma, προβληματος problēmatos  puzzle, enigma  < προβαλλω proballō  to put forward.Some of the names are obvious like Tom Carter collected carteri others less clear.</blockquote>

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