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  1. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    Winge (1898): The quoted German text comes from [here] (it doesn't cite Motzfeldt's name, hence I initially overlooked it), and is about a Great Auk that Benicken also received thanks to his friendship with--it now appears--the same Motzfeldt. Thus the "Freund" was "Direktor des grönländischen...
  2. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    (Just wanted to add that, of course, the word "pica" predates Linnaeus, as it is the classical Latin name of the bird. ;)) The British Museum has a page about a Captain Frederick Franks, albeit not with much info. [Here], Uria francsii is a nomen nudum; but not in the Trans. Linn. Soc.: there...
  3. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    Not sure either, but it indeed seems likely that local languages did not differentiate between two species. Note that he usually gave two "Kamchatkan" names for birds occurring there: one used by Russians in Kamchatka, the other Kamchadal--from the original local ethnic group. For the Common...
  4. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    The date of publication of the two first volumes of Pallas' Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica is fixed as 1811 in Opinion 212 of the ICZN. (Most copies, as the one you link to, have a title page that gives the date as 1831; others like [this one] on Google give 1811. Except for the changed title page...
  5. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    The type locality certainly also encompasses Denmark. Doesn't the text also say that "Aalge" was used in Iceland as well? ("...og falder i Iisland, og der har det Navn": "also occurs in Iceland, also there has this name"?... Niels?) A curious detail: this name has been claimed to be unavailable...
  6. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    Actually, the Little Auk was somewhat more that just "another Auk" to the Black Guillemot at this time. The one responsible for this situation was Eleazar Albin... The Columba groenlandica of early authors (the Greenland Dove of Willughby, the Taube of Martens...) was the Black Guillemot. Albin...
  7. l_raty

    Etymology of some Auks

    I would not cut the sentence at this place. It is: "...and it is called Alca, rostri sulcis quatuor, linea utrinque alba a rostro ad oculos. Anim. Svec. 120;..." [full text here] This is undoubtedly a citation from the first ed. of Fauna Svecica (actually "Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciæ...
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