Otocorys parvexi Taczanowski, 1876 (1 Viewer)

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Otocorys parvexi Taczanowski, 1876 OD here

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Horned Lark Otocorys parvexi Taczanowski, 1876 NCR [JS Eremophila alpestris brandti]
Alfons Xavier (Ksawery) Parvex (1833–at least 1890) was a Polish-born Swiss amateur ornithologist who took part in the Polish uprising while working as a clerk in a paper factory. He was exiled with Godlewski (q.v.) to Siberia (1863–1868) where he studied and collected with Dybowski (q.v.) (1865–1868). He worked in a pet shop in Paris (1879), then collected in Canada and Brazil (1881–1882). The Verreaux Brothers (q.v.) in Paris employed him as a taxidermist (1883). There is no record of him after 1890. He is also commemorated in the name of a sponge.

The Key to Scientific Names

Alfons Ksawery Parvexa (1833-?1890) Swiss/Polish ornithologist, taxidermist, exiled to Siberia 1864-1868, collector in Canada and Brazil 1881-1882 (syn. Eremophila alpestris brandti).

Polish Wikipedia gives 1890 as death (no question mark). If correct is unknown to me.

 

[l_raty]

Polish Wikipedia gives 1890 as death (no question mqrk).

I doesn't, actually. It gives "po 1890" = after 1890.

(FWIW: "Parvexa" as used in the Key, if taken from a Polish site, might be a genitive. "of Alfons Ksawery Parvex" = "Alfonsa Ksawerego Parvexa".)