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  1. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    In the north (rubicola > maurus > stejnegeri), the ranges of the maurus and stejnegeri haplogroups seem to be parapatric, one replacing the other more or less abruptly, with (so far) no suggestion of mixed populations. (And the ranges of the maurus and rubicola haplogroups, on the other hand...
  2. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    ...which is exactly why Pteroglossus beauharnaesii had to be corrected to beauharnaisii, which SACC has now agreed with. (I note that the suggestion that preserving the incorrect spelling was possible, despite acceptance of the change in the source of the name, came from the same corners in both...
  3. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    I don't think anything is certain, but there is at least a theory that suggests the source would be malum vitis, the evil of the vine, because thrushes were thought to cause damage to grapes.
  4. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    "Mouette" in French. (We also used to have "mauve" for the bigger ones, but this word is completely deprecated.)
  5. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Thanks Mark. No description of any kind: this being published after 1960, there is no way that a name was formally established here.
  6. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Wolters used Nesoctitinae on p. 156 of Die Vogelarten der Erde according to the ToC of his work; but so far as I know he did not state characters differentiating any of his family groups, hence he did not formally name any of them. Anyway, Wolters in 1976 was not the first either, as Nesoctitini...
  7. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Thanks Björn. Yes, obviously this is one. :) And if this specimen was indeed acquired from Westin, then it is presumably the bird Sundevall had in hand. But 45 mm is quite shorter than Sundevall's figure (55 mm)...
  8. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Tristram's: ...is not really correct, though. Sundevall wrote: ...which means that the bird was in a very rich collection made by Freyreiss, in Brazil ; which, acquired around 1817 by the Swedish consul Westin in Rio de Janeiro, was offered to the national museums. Brazil is clearly presented...
  9. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Latham's "Palm Warbler" https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33730572 (1783); Gmelin's Motacilla palmarum https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2656446 (1789). The source of both was Buffon's "Le bimbelé ou la fausse linotte" https://books.google.be/books?id=Sj__mBYZ3XsC&pg=PA330 . Buffon...
  10. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    In the proposal, Pamela Rasmussen wrote: ("del Hoyo and Collar 2016" is the HBW/BLI check-list, where the name is used for stejnegeri treated as a ssp group of Saxicola torquatus.) So, yes, the idea seems to be to avoid eponyms generally.
  11. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    "Type: Mot. calendula", where "Mot." stands for "Motacilla", I believe.
  12. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    These are both nude, however. For a species-group name, there must be a description or illustration of the named organism published somewhere -- either in the OD itself, or in an earlier published work referenced there. Short of this, the name is a nomen nudum. ("Like Larus canus but from...
  13. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    When Richmond wrote "type" on one of his genus-group cards, he generally meant what we would call "included species". OD of Corthylio: Cabanis J. 1853. Zur Naturgeschichte des Pallas'schen Laubhähnchens, Phyllobasileus superciliosus. J. Ornithol., 1: 83-96.; p. 83...
  14. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Perhaps worth reminding here that Nannopterum, being a latinized Greek word with its ending changed to -um, is (as per Art. 30.1.3) neuter ? (Hence Nannopterum auritum and Nannopterum brasilianum, not "Nannopterum auritus" and "Nannopterum brasilianus" as suggested by "Figure 1 from Kennedy et...
  15. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    To be fair, they did clarify the (originally unclear, indeed) sampling subsequently: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.10.032 (access should be free, I think).
  16. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Even if you forget about very recent trends, "Short-billed Gull" persisted until much more recently than this. To start with, when the AOU lumped in 1931, they did not change the name of the bird, continuing Short-billed Gull: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5824001. I cannot trace a...
  17. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    Historically, Mew Gull was an American name for Larus canus (sensu stricto), actually. E.g.: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16807071 (If I remember correctly, the author of the name refused to call the bird "common", because it was a vagrant.)
  18. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    On p. 20 of the proposal document, we see: No. 33.3.1 does not make this possible at all. "when an incorrect subsequent spelling" [...] "is attributed to the publication of the original spelling": if it is admitted that the publication of the original spelling is Bruch 1855, this article can...
  19. l_raty

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2021

    In the BOLD database, there are "stejnegeri barcodes" (= cox1 sequences identical or nearly identical to these found in stejnegeri; for all sequences, see the BIN: BOLD:AC3194) from Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China (Hebei, Gansu, Qinghai), Afghanistan, Sweden and Norway. In China...
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