Taphrospilus
Well-known member
Pycnonotus leucogenys lapersonnei Abdulali 1982 OD here
Carpodacus rubicilloides lapersonnei Meinertzhagen, R & Meinertzhagen, AC 1926 OD here
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:
First of all I do not think that Hartert & Steinbacher, 1932 is correct. But feel free to correct me. I think Richard Meinertzhagen and Annie Constance Meinertzhagen should get the credit of authorship.
The old key claims:
I agree to the name as we can find him here as member of B.O.U.
Question remaining is death 1934 correct for Vivian Stanley LaPersonne? And when and where was he born?
Carpodacus rubicilloides lapersonnei Meinertzhagen, R & Meinertzhagen, AC 1926 OD here
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:
Streaked Rosefinch ssp. Carpodacus rubicilloides lapersonnei Hartert & Steinbacher, 1932
NCR [JS Carpodacus rubicilloides lucifer]
V. S. LaPersonne (fl.1900–1934) was a British Indian ornithologist who also visited Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and New Zealand. His collecting trips to islands in the Persian Gulf (1914 and 1921–1923) were to investigate migration. He wrote a number of articles including: 'The Common Central Asian Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis pallasii Reichenb.) in Nepal' (1933), all published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society; he was Assistant Curator of the Society's museum.
First of all I do not think that Hartert & Steinbacher, 1932 is correct. But feel free to correct me. I think Richard Meinertzhagen and Annie Constance Meinertzhagen should get the credit of authorship.
The old key claims:
Vivian Stanley LaPersonne (fl. 1931) British field ornithologist, Assistant Curator at Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., collector in India, Iraq, Kuwait and New Zealand (syn. Carpodacus rubicilloides lucifer, syn. Pycnonotus leucogenys leucotis).
I agree to the name as we can find him here as member of B.O.U.
Question remaining is death 1934 correct for Vivian Stanley LaPersonne? And when and where was he born?