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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Ruhe" data-source="post: 3052891" data-attributes="member: 83329">No. 4 – grinnelli in …● the prehistoric, fossil species Grinnell’s Crested Eagle Spizaetus grinnelli MILLER 1911 as "Geranoaëtus grinnelli": "This species is named after Mr. Joseph Grinnell, Curator of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and one of the foremost students of the distribution of American birds." = the US field biologist and zoologist, evolutionary biologist, curator and Director of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) in Berkeley, California; Joseph Grinnell (1877–1939). More on him, see this link (here)Also a Pleistocene race of Polyborus prelutosus Howard, 1938 (Hildegarde Howard, 1938: The Rancho La Brea Caracara: A New Species: Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication, Contributions to Paleontology 487: 217-240) is named after Grinnell:Polyborus prelutosus grinnelli Howard, 1940 (Hildegarde Howard, 1940: A New Race of Caracara from the Pleistocene of Mexico: The Condor 42: 41-44)pdf: <a href="https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v042n01/p0041-p0044.pdf" target="_blank">https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v042n01/p0041-p0044.pdf</a>Fred Ruhe</blockquote>