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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3265108" data-attributes="member: 113430">A Cuckoo-Dove from JavaHere´s another one of James's "unseen" ones …walikmehra …  alt. "Walik-mehra" (i.e. Original spelling, with hyphen)● in the invalid Macropygia "Walik-mehra" REICHENBACH 1861 (<a href="https://archive.org/stream/dievollstandigs211836reic#page/86/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>*, p. 86 or the attached jpg) [syn. Macropygia unchall WAGLER 1827]= Walik-mehra, a local name name for this bird, on Java, Indonesia. As simple as that! At least if we´re to trust what Colonel von Schierbrandt told Mr. Reichenbach:  Apparently this "Walik-mehra" was a bit hard to accept (and/or spell!) for succeeding authors, as it´s a k a; M. "walicmehra" 1865 (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97523#page/426/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>) or "Wahlicmera" 1866 (<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103185#page/295/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>) alt. "Walichaehra" 1870 (<a href="https://archive.org/stream/handlistofgenera02britrich#page/237/mode/1up" target="_blank">here</a>). I guess those guys hadn´t seen it either! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Nothing seems to be known of where on the vast Island of Java, or in what language (of Java's many, many languages) this Cuckoo-Dove was called "Walik-mehra" (or if that name has any other, certain meaning).However; Enjoy!Björn-----------------------------*Reichenbach, H. G. L. [Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, 1793-1879].  1861. Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Tauben und taubenartigen Vögel: Wallnister, Erdtauben, Baumtauben, Hocco's. Columbariæ: Megapodinæ, Peristerinæ, Columbinæ, Alectorinæ. Dresden und Leipzig : Expedition der vollständigsten Naturgeschichte, [1847-1862].As I understand it this Text was published in 1861, the Plates (of the same work) in 1862. And; don´t get confused that it is bound in this book, where the first title page is dated 1850. It must be an accumulated and somewhat mixed (-up) volumd. I didn´t even bother to look at it first!---</blockquote>

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