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Recent content by Norbert R. B.

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    Bucconidae

    Oh, yes, I see. Unfortunately, I looked for Cuvier's book in Gallica, which led me to another (later) edition of Le Règne Animal. I couldn't open BHL yesterday, and I was misled by Gallica without noticing it. Sorry for once again putting things into question that have long been clarified.
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    Bucconidae

    Sorry for coming back on an old thread, but some of nomenclatural things are not yet clear for me. When introducing Tamatia, Cuvier (1817 = 1816) included two species in his new genus. As G. R. Gray chose T. macrorhyncha Gmel. as the type species (already in 1840 I think), which is now usually...
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    Bucconidae

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    OD of Brachypteraciidae

    Certainly someone should do that, but it is a task that probably would overwhelm a single person as we have seen with Bock. If an international team could be formed it would nowadays be easier than 30 years ago to prepare a comprehensive list of family-group names, with online libraries like...
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    OD of Brachypteraciidae

    Are not Chenu & Des Murs, 1852 Encycl. Hist. Nat., Oiseaux, pt. 3, p. 236 the authors of Atelornithinae? They originally used Atélornithinés for the family, but according to Art. 11.7.2. Bonaparte only latinized that name, making it available as it has been accepted by later authors as...
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    OD of Brachypteraciidae

    Many thanks for this. It once more shows that Bock (1994) is not reliable and that one has to trace every entry if one wants to be sure about family-group names. Unfortunately, sources like Taxonomy in Flux and others took over Bock's mistaken entries without checking them for reliability.
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    OD of Brachypteraciidae

    https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/181952 The original from the L'Ateneo italiano is available through google books; the above link is a separately published off-print.
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    OD of Brachypteraciidae

    The family-group name Brachypteraciidae is usually referred to Bonaparte, 1854. Bock (1994) cites it (as Brachypterciinae) from L'Ateneo italiano 2, where Bonaparte published his Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum on the pages 311-321 and 377-382. However, I was unable to find Brachypteriinae...
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    Caprimulgiformes

    It begs the question: why don't you go ahead and publicize the hidden and overlooked family-group names yourself? Perhaps for individual orders or families, this would prevent a lot of unnecessary and incomplete publication.
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    Caprimulgiformes

    Well Laurent, your database is excellent as is your knowledge on nomenclature. But a name apparently overlooked by everyone, except one person, and not used for more than hundred years and also not mentioned in the nomenclatural literature for a century is obviously forgotten. If not according...
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    Caprimulgiformes

    In the case of Eurostopodidae, even Schadde & Mason (1997) in their very careful compiled Catalogue of Australian birds did not mention Bennett. I wouldn't want to 'wake sleeping dogs' and take Bennett's perhaps inadvertently introduced name for what it is: a nomen oblitum. Unless you can show...
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    Caprimulgiformes

    Perhaps Art. 23.9 of the Code can be used, as Bennett's name may have been overlooked and has not been used after 1899. It seems that Sibley et al. coined the name Eurostopodidae independently and not because they referred to Bennett.
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    Alauda arvensis subspecies

    Concerning the description of the new Skylark subspecies by Trischitta, the wording of the text is somewhat convoluted and old-fashioned, but it is clearly in the conjunctive form as may be apparent from the passages "it will be my care to submit them to a comparison with a copious series of...
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    Alauda arvensis subspecies

    The paper you refer to is from 1983 (Eck, S.: Katalog der ornithologischen Sammlung Dr. Udo Bährmanns (2. Fortsetzung). Zool. Abhandl. Staatl. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 39: 1-38). With the kind help of G. Aimassi, I've got access to the paper by Trischitta (1962) in Il Cacciatore Siciliano. There he...
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    Alauda arvensis subspecies

    I cannot read DjVu, too. But thank you very much for providing the text of the Skylark chapter from Birds of Kasakhstan, Laurent. As far as I can see, Korelov is outlining the distribution of the two subspecies of A. arvensis he is recognizing in the country, but not their type localities...
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