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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taphrospilus" data-source="post: 3172449" data-attributes="member: 121912">In <a href="http://www.hbw.com/dictionary/key-to-scientific-names-in-ornithology?name=riefferi+%2F+riefferii" target="_blank">HBW Alive</a> is written about riefferi / riefferii.This seems to be from <a href="https://books.google.at/books?id=c7sGntGaaUIC&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Diccionario de los nombres de las aves de Colombia: origen y uso</a> from Alejandro Farieta.I am personally not convinced that it is the real first name. What is the source of his first name? I really searched a lot and found that he sent or collected specimen in Santa-Fé de Bogota or Fusugagua but I could not find any evidence about his first name. Anyone here who knows more?As a collector he is mentioned e.g <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96679#page/932/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a> from 1843 or here <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100996#page/28/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a> from Fusugagua or <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/61858#page/320/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/51484#page/277/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a> as Reiffer 1844 Bogota or <a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19438#page/82/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a> etc pp. Maybe anyone can tell me a secure source that his name was Gabriel? Maybe Muséum national d’histoire naturelle have bills of his deliveries? He is still a mystery for me.</blockquote>

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