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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3385537" data-attributes="member: 24811">"Fauna svecica ed.2: [23]" is not <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32170492" target="_blank">page 23</a>.It is the 23rd unpaginated page, counted from the first leaf that follows the one that includes the title page: [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32170448" target="_blank">this</a>].There, you do have a "Pelecanus 146 aristotelis 117" -- which is a binominal name applying to the "146. PELECANUS subtus fuscus, rectricibus duodecim. Fn. 117." of <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32170520" target="_blank">page 51</a>.(References cited by Linnaeus:- Ulyssis Aldrovandi Ornithologiae tomus alter, liber XIX, caput LVIII: [<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hlfDFiHhqp8C&pg=RA1-PA109" target="_blank">here</a>].- Francisci Willughbeii Ornithologiae libri tres, pagina 249: [<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AvZotFtt_XAC&pg=PA249" target="_blank">here</a>]; tabula LXIII: [<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AvZotFtt_XAC&pg=PA453" target="_blank">here</a>]. English translation of the text: [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41442129" target="_blank">here</a>].- Joannis Raji Synopsis methodica avium, pagina 123: [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6355389" target="_blank">here</a>].- Eleazar Albin's "Ornithologia" (= A natural history of birds), tomus 2, pagina 74 & tabula 81: [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41130810" target="_blank">here</a>].The last one is obviously a cormorant, not a shag, and was probably cited in error. (Albin was mainly a painter, and many of his texts were taken almost verbatim from the English version of Willughby's Ornithology; here, Albin's description is that of Willughby's "Cormorant Corvus aquaticus" [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41442128" target="_blank">here</a>]; this reference conflicts objectively with the second one, which is to another species in Willughby's work; Linnaeus cited Willughby's Corvus aquaticus under his PELECANUS Carbo.) That being said, Linnaeus himself was evidently uncertain about the status of the bird he described. ("Forte haec avis vel junior vel Carbonis femina.": "Perhaps this bird is either the young or the female of Carbo."))</blockquote>

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