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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3187630" data-attributes="member: 24811">No. 28: ● TiltriaGray: [<a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34495#page/234/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>].Unfortunately, Reichenbach's plates are very rare (and I have never seen them online). One of them was reproduced by Gregory 2006 [<a href="http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=zoomed;idno=8005a12" target="_blank">pdf</a>], who also described the work as: "a series of 100 uncoloured plates of superior draughtsmanship, depicting the heads, feet, wings and tails of some 1200 genera, many of which were new at that time." The names in this work are available without originally included nominal species and without description, through their simple association with an illustration. I think it unlikely that the work would help understanding the etymology of a name that Reichenbach introduced there.The word doesn't seem to be Latin. If Greek: τίλτρια as such does not appear in dictionaries; however, the <a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=M3EyjIa6IPgC&pg=PA230#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">suffix -τρια</a> can denote the female doer of an action; and <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dti%2Fllw" target="_blank">τίλλω</a> means "to pluck", "to pull out hair", "to tear one's hair in sorrow" or, metaphorically, "to vex" or "to annoy". So it might mean "she who plucks", "she who tears her hair in sorrow", or "she who annoys". How we can link that to the River Warbler, I don't know for sure...(PS - with a "<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-" target="_blank">παρα-</a>" prefix: <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=parati/ltria" target="_blank">παρατίλτρια</a> = female slave who plucked the hairs from her mistress's body.)</blockquote>

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