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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3288059" data-attributes="member: 113430">The "unseen" marianae ...A brief comment, after yet another visit to the Stockholm University Library, this time regarding ... No wonder this one remained "unseen"! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />● the invalid "Picus flavinucha marianae" BISWAS 1952 [syn. of today´s nominate (Chrysophlegma) Picus f. flavinucha GOULD 1833 (1834)]When looking for a subspecies of a (Greater) yellow-naped woodpecker, the only article by Biswamoy Biswas in the four issues of The Ibis 1951 is one about the taxonomy of  "The Indian Plaintive Cuckoo Cuculus  passerinus" [today's Cacomantis passerinus VAHL 1797] … simply because the OD of this marianae is found in:Biswas, B. 1952. Geographical variation in the Woodpecker Picus flavinucha Gould. The Ibis 94 (2): pp. 210-219. [Date of issue: 1 April 1952, the "Picus flavinucha marianae" is found on p.213. That was correct!]. Also see the Richmond card (<a href="http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Picu/picu00032a.jpg" target="_blank">here</a>).Due to copyright rules I cannot attach the full article to this post (it´s not free yet) nor can I find a link to it.In any case, the OD includes no dedication, nor any obvious explanation (from what I can tell). The only plausible, possible, somewhat similar name mentioned is found in the  Introduction by Mr. Biswas: But … Mr."Daniel Marien" … I expected marianae to be a female eponym!?The only other institutions or persons mentioned is (if useful?): That´s all the OD tells us. In total Mr. Biswas studied 46 specimens of this supposedly new subspecies. The Range is given as: "Simlipal Hills in Orissa; Southern Assam and Burma except the peninsular region".The Type itself, an adult male, was collected by Mr. G. Heinrich (1896–1984), on Mount Victoria, Chin Hills, in Upper Burma, 16 March 1938. And none of his wifes/mistresses or daughters was (to my knowledge) called Marian(e) or something like that. And even if so, shouldn´t either one of the Heinrich's, if commemorated, have been mentioned in the Introduction as well? Maybe it´s simply a silent commemoration of a relative (wife? daughter) of Mr. Biswamoy Biswas himself?Who knows? Take it for what it´s worth.BjörnPS. James, I´ll send you a copy, thereby no longer "unseen" also by you, maybe you can figure out the truth!PPS. Or is this yet one of those (Laurent's) tricky, ever-repeated, latinisations of female substantives/names! Still making Daniel Marien a possible candidate?---</blockquote>

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