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    Hirundinidae

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

    The African specimen was LACM 71522 from Uganda, as per their second supplementary file.
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    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
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    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
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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.
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    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).
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    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...
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    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...
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    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.
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    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
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    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

    For American birds (Red/Cassia), there is this. I'm not aware of anything similar using Eurasian birds.
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    Scottish Crossbill - Yes? No? Never?

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