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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3905288" data-attributes="member: 24811">"Hartlaub" is correct.The description is quoted from "Emin Bey MS.", but the name is not attributed to him.The default is always: author of the name = author of the work. To depart from this default, it must be clear from the content of the work that someone else was responsible for BOTH the name itself (i.e., the name should be explicitly attributed to that other person) AND the fulfillment of the conditions of availability other than the publication (i.e., that other person should have personally written the description). Here only the second condition is fulfilled, thus the default still applies.(Note that, in fact, it is completely unclear that Emin Bey intended the description quoted by Hartlaub to be that of a new bird. In its MS form, the description could as well have appeared under a header of, say, "Symplectes emini", with the assumption that the bird being described was this taxon; Hartlaub alone, upon reading it (and/or, perhaps, seeing the specimen before it went missing), might then have recognised that a new taxon was involved, and coined a name for it.)</blockquote>