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  1. l_raty

    Hirundinidae

    https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S1055790324001039-mmc2.xlsx
  2. l_raty

    Hirundinidae

    The African specimen was LACM 71522 from Uganda, as per their second supplementary file.
  3. l_raty

    Some small additions to HBW Key

    Shouldn't it be 'Adriaan' rather than 'Adrian' ? E.g., as in : Registratie Adriaan Provo Kluit op 27 maart 1847
  4. l_raty

    Ammomanes deserti annae Meinertzhagen, R 1923 and others

    It (too) says "Born on 2 June, 1889". First page : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1928.tb08742.x
  5. l_raty

    Pittidae

    I had not actually searched a type designation for this name before. I'm not home now and searching the literature on a phone is quite harder than on a real computer. It may be worth to look seriously for something pre-1840, although type designations from this period are relatively uncommon...
  6. l_raty

    Pittidae

    Selby 1840 A Catalogue of the generic and sub-generic types of the class Aves arranged according to the natural system - Biodiversity Heritage Library listed Pitta cyanura as the generic type of Pitta (which he attributed incorrectly to Temminck, but this should not affect the validity of the...
  7. l_raty

    BOW Key

    Hi Björn, This entry is the accepted OD of Cassicus chrysonotus, which indeed assumes it was intended to read "C. chrysonotus", and not as a genus-group name. The taxon is explicitly called a species in the diagnosis. ("Affinis hæc species Cassico icteronoto" means "This species is close to...
  8. l_raty

    How to describe a new species in zoology

    No, not recently. Latin was already rare in zoological publications by the end of the 19th C. Nowadays zoologists able to write even a single sentence in Latin have become a rarity too. But the Code would not forbid it.
  9. l_raty

    Schliephacke's (Sword-billed) Hummingbird

    Attached is the death record of who died So, yes, I'd say it definitely looks like this was the actual full name of Ferdinand Heine senior (1809-1894).
  10. l_raty

    Schliephacke's (Sword-billed) Hummingbird

    I grew a bit confused here, as Wikipedia, and the Key, have both Heines as "Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine" : "Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine", alt. Ferdinand Heine senior (1809-1894), owner of a very large collection of birds known as the Museum Heineanum, and who would thus be Juliane's...
  11. l_raty

    How to describe a new species in zoology

    Yes, true, the formulation of my answer was poor -- the ICZN doesn't "say nothing" about languages. It's only a recommendation, however, and "89.2. [...] Recommendations, examples, and all titles and appendices do not form part of the legislative text of the Code." ...thus, at the end of the...
  12. l_raty

    How to describe a new species in zoology

    The ICZN says nothing about language. About the only thing it says is that, for names introduced after 1930, a description or definition "in words" must be provided.
  13. l_raty

    How to describe a new species in zoology

    This has been the case for a very long time, but was changed in 2011 -- for new taxa published on or after 1 Jan 2012, the diagnosis can be either in Latin, or in English. (But not in any other language.) https://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/pages/main/art_39.html
  14. l_raty

    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    For American birds (Red/Cassia), there is this. I'm not aware of anything similar using Eurasian birds.
  15. l_raty

    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    I once posted an mtDNA tree here, if there is interest.
  16. l_raty

    Accipitridae

    I hate to question things based on technicalities (especially when they otherwise look great), but would anyone know how, exactly, this journal is published nowadays ? On one hand, in the 'About' tab on the journal web page, we are told explicitly: ...which may be problematic for the newly...
  17. l_raty

    BOW Key

    Interesting case ;) https://books.google.com/books?id=zHzScFfeJgsC&pg=PA743&dq=nipica The third letter really is a 'd', which the typographer placed upside down. (I.e., physically, it's rotated by 180°, rather than 'inverted and reversed'. The bar, on this letter, has a single serif, as have...
  18. l_raty

    Gruiformes and Charadriiformes

    A lot of Linnaeus' knowledge came from the earlier literature rather than from a personal experience of the birds. It was not that infrequent that he changed his mind about the interpretation of some names, which he had adopted from some earlier authors. In the 10th edition, he cited "Tringa"...
  19. l_raty

    Gruiformes and Charadriiformes

    "Sandläuffer", actually -- literally, "sand-walker" or "sand-runner". But sandpiper is probably a good approximation. Note that he wrote Ocrophus, not Ochropus. (He used the same spelling in the 10th ed.) The Latin diagnosis of the "58. TRINGA." group says Rostrum digitis brevius (bill shorter...
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    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    By the way, I still lack an explanation for the "two versions" conundrum in the "thirteenth" ed. (Gmelin), which we ran into here. If anyone has a suggestion...
  21. l_raty

    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Using this as a guide : (It seems the Google link I gave yesterday was actually to the seventh ed., which appeared on the same year and is presented as "secundum sextam editionem", i.e., following the sixth ed. -- sorry about this.) (This file suggests an 11th edition published in 1762 in...
  22. l_raty

    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Now, the apparition of "Procellaria" in Linnaeus' publications was actually earlier than the 6th ed. of Systema naturae. Linnaeus already had this name in the 1st ed. of Fauna svecica (which did appear in 1746, so maybe Coues was mixing up the two works) : (1746) - Caroli Linnaei medic. & botan...
  23. l_raty

    Links to digitized versions of original sources of bird names

    Copies can be downloaded from Google Books or from sub.uni-goettingen. Edit - The Google Books version is actually the 7th edition, see post #388 below.
  24. l_raty

    Brhlík taka

    Taka seems to be a local name for this bird. (Not a Slovak word at all, thus. This word doesn't seem to exist in Slovak.) E.g. : https://books.google.com/books?id=fPDxk551AhkC&pg=PA246&dq=taka+nuthatch https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6MtAAAAMAAJ&q=taka+benguet
  25. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    From descriptions, martinicensis and gadeloupensis don't really seem to have shared the colour of rufescens... (A specimen of martinicensis: Multimedia item - RMNH.AVES.110001_0 | Naturalis Bioportal ) (Ridgway described Troglodytes guadeloupensis [Guadeloupe Wren] as duller than T. rufescens...
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