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[MJB]

Which is correct: willkonskii or wilkonskii for the name of the ssp of Tawny Owl Strix aluco? IOC and most other lists favour the former.
MJB

 

[Mike Earp]

Which is correct: willkonskii or wilkonskii for the name of the ssp of Tawny Owl Strix aluco? IOC and most other lists favour the former.
MJB

The Key has this:

willkouskii
Original spelling of specific name Syrnium willkonskii Menzbier, 1896: "a friend of mine, Mr. Willkousky, in Batum ... I have named the species after Mr. Willkousky." The spelling was subsequently corrected by Menzbier. in the same journal.

and this:

willkonskii
Florian Wilkoński (fl. 1896) Polish ornithologist, collector in the Caucasus (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Strix aluco) (see willkouskii).

Which suggests to me that willkonskii is correct but it ought to have been wilkonskii.

 

[Rick Wright]

v.1-9=no.1-64 (1892-1899) - Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club - Biodiversity Heritage Library

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[MJB]

Thanks for the evidence!
MJB

 

[l_raty]

We discussed this name in 2021 here.