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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3697510" data-attributes="member: 113430">You´re welcome, James ... but, maybe I´m stupid, ... I simply cannot get my head around those Hummingbirds ... and believe me; I´ve tried.If "only Gould's name is validly created" (like you replied), why isn´t it listed in the Key [as (in my view, this far) a synonym of (Polyerata) Amazilia fimbriata]? Today's updated HBW Alive Key tells us:If anyone would look for an explanation of what bird Gould was writing about, and depicted, as "Linnæi" it would be very easy (following today's Key, above) to belive it´s a synonym of the Goldenthroat Polytmus subspecies.I would certainly (if only a bit less doubtful/sceptical/suspicious <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) have been led astray, and belived such was/is the case ... And James, where did you "showed it as Polyerata fimbriata"? Was that in the HBW Alive Key? Or in any of your printed books? I´ve been checking the Key repeatedly for linnaei (now and then, since 2014, when we dealt with those names last time), most recently last Tuesday, this far without any sign of it, as a synonym of fimbriata.And; even if fimbriata was moved from Polyerata into Amazilia what disqualifies the identity of Gould's "Linnæi" from the Key?What am I missing? Please enlighten me!Björn--</blockquote>

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