Tanygnathus lucionensis koikei (1 Viewer)

At least not found here the etymology of Tanygnathus lucionensis koikei. Anything additional to what's witen in The Eponym Dictionary of Birds? Here written as Koiké of Davao. Here as K. Koike.

Perhaps more in "I Name this Parrot ..." from Arthur Alfred Prestwich p. 53?

In my Key MS I have, "K. Koike (fl. 1929) Japanese resident on Mindanao, expedition manager, collector in the Philippines" (as in Prestwich, 1963, pp. 53-54).

Have anyone seen OD in...

Contributions to the birds of the Philippines , No . 2 . Ornithological Society of Japan Supplementary Publications 14 : 141 - 222

Click to expand...

...?

Taphrospilus said:

Have anyone seen OD in...

Contributions to the birds of the Philippines , No . 2 . Ornithological Society of Japan Supplementary Publications 14 : 141 - 222

...?

Click to expand...

I've seen the reference given alternatively/more fully as follows:

The first page is also sometimes given as 137 rather than 139 or 141.

Never seen it online. (In countries where copyright expires 70 years after the author's death, it will not be free of rights before 2023.)
But Björn seems to have had an access to it at some point. Or, at least, James acknowledged him in the Key as having provided the OD of Apoia Hachisuka, which was described on p. 205 of this work.

The only access I had of Hachisuka's Work Contributions to the birds of the Philippines, from 1930 (i.e. of No. II, Part VI) was downright physical (IRL, very Non-digital), in the Stockholm University Library (in April, 2018, copied, scanned and forwarded to James). I haven't seen it digitized anywhere.

Good luck finding a pixel version.

Koike's Green Parrot

The closest one I can find digitized (and accessible) is Hachisuka's The Birds of the Philippine Islands (with notes on the Mammal Fauna), vol II (Part III & IV), 1934–1935, here, where you/we find 'Koike's Green Parrot' on p.86-87, but nothing additional (i.e. it's the same book as in the Google Snippet view, latter link in #1, but in full view).

Martin, I assume you've figured it out by now, but I'll put it in writing anyway; Davao (Province) is located along the South-east coast of Mindanao.

However, nothing additional found about Mr. Koike himself, only repeated, in Hachisuka's List of Birds Described by the Japanese Authors (1942), in the short Prase: "For Mr. K. Koike" (here, bottom p.850).

Who he was? I have no idea.

Björn

In 1929 the Ornithological Society of Japan published in Tokyo Hachisuka’s Contributions to the birds of the Philippines, in the form of two small volumes. The first volume, dated December 1929, covers geography, history, bibliography and distribution, while the second volume, dated January 1930, provides a complete list of Philippine birds with rather limited information. This was the precursor of Hachisuka’s major work.
Further Contributions 1939 discusses the place I believe Koike worked in 1929 when he collected the bird.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjo1915/11/51-52/11_51-52_61/_pdf .
V. 29 1930 Tori Japanese Journal of Ornithology
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjo1915/6/29/_contents/-char/en .
I cannot find Contributions
v. 28 1929 Tori JJO
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jjo1915/6/28/_contents/-char/en .
I cannot find Contributions.
Auk:
Hachisuka's 'Contributions to the Birds of the Philippines.'-- This work, in two parts, is printed in English and forms a special publication of the Ornithological Society of Japan. Part I • includes a description of the physical features of the Philippines and the climate, rainfall, and humidity; a history of the ornithology of the islands, with an extensive annotated bibliography; and a discussion of avifaunal distribution. The bibliography of 235 titles occupies sixty-one pages and is a valuable aid to anyone studying Philippine ornithology. Part II 2 contains a list of species with annotations on those with which the author is better acquainted. Although the activities of the author in the islands is not very clearly set forth, he appears to have made an expedition to Mount Apo in Mindinao, and to have had full access to the collections of the Bureau of Scienc.e, during his stay. New forms are described in the genera Phapitreron, Leucotreron, Mu•cadivore•, Macropygia, Streptopelia, Kakatoe, Tanygnathus, Loriculus, Penelopides, Hemiprocne, Callocalla, Centropus, Chrysocolaptes, Dendrobiastes, Rhipidura, Macronus, Cisticola, Pardiliparus, Callisitta, and Alauda. A new genus A poia (p. 205), is erected for Zozterops goodfellowi and a new subfamily Hypocryptodiinae for Hypocryptodius cinnamomcus (p. 206). The work is well printed and forms an important addition to the literature of Philippine ornithology.--W. S.
Google Book:
Contributions to the Birds of the Philippines, Issues 1-2
Contributions to the Birds of the Philippines, Masauji Hachisuka
Issues 13-14 of Supplementary publication, Nihon Chōgakkai

Author Masauji Hachisuka

Publisher Ornithological Society of Japan, 1929
Length 222 pages
National Library of Australia:
Contributions to the birds of the Philippines
Bib ID 3601380
Format Book
Author Hachisuka, Masauji, 1903-1953


Description [Tokyo] Ornithological Society of Japan, 1929-30
2 v. in 1. (x, 222 p.) 3 plates. 22 cm.
Series Nihon Chōgakkai. Supplementary publication no. 13-14)
Notes Introduction also in Japanese.
Bibliography: p. 53-113.
Subjects Birds -- Philippines.

Other authors/contributors Nihon Chōgakkai

So this article was one of two monographs published by same society who published Tori Japanese Orniothological Society but as no. 13 and 14 in a Monograph series.
Notes on the birds of the Philippine Islands and Borneo.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjo1915/8/38/8_38_220/_pdf .
1934 Tori Hachisuka

Taphrospilus said:

Perhaps more in "I Name this Parrot ..." from Arthur Alfred Prestwich p. 53?

Click to expand...

We can forget about this. It looks like The Eponym Dictionary of Birds information is from Prestwich. But would be interessting where Koiké was mentionen in context with the third Apo expedition from Walter Goodfellow was mentioned. It seems not in On the birds collected by Mr. Walter Goodfellow on the Volcano of Apo and in its vicinity, in south-east Mindanao, Philippine Islands but it looks like Hartert, Mearns and Rothschild published as well about his collection results.

OD gives us not really more information:

The name, in honour of Mr. K. Koike of the Japanese Association at Davao.

Click to expand...

If he was president of this Association as mentioned in Eponym Dictionary of Birds is not known to me.

I had a try at it in Japanese -- looking for a Mr. 小池 of the 日本人会 at ダバオ.
But no luck so far here either...

There are apparently quite a few people named "Koike" around.

l_raty said:

.

There are apparently quite a few people named "Koike" around.

Click to expand...

Yes I found as well names like Koike Kaneyuki, Kenji Koike, Kazuo Koike etc.

And of course others like Toshio Koike, Yuriko Koike (which I excluded as there is no second K.)

As well I thought about https://www.davao.ph.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/100davaojapanese.en.html but quiet difficult with no proper japanese skills.

Mr Koike's (Blue-naped) Parrot ssp.

Once again my dear Japanese friend and neighbour Nobuhiko Osawa delivers!

Some months ago, while this thread was still "cooking", I asked him [the only person I know who can read (Old school) Japanese] if he knew, or could find, anything about the obscure Mr Koike, commemorated in the scientific name koikei, and he gladly accepted the task. He promised to look into it (he even ordered a book from Japan, 南の探検 – which, due to the corona situation, took its fair time to reach Sweden), and last week he suddenly turned up outside my studio, with a big smile, full of enthusiasm, eager to tell me what he'd found.

I asked him to write down his findings, and below is his reply [my blue/bold]:

I have read marquis Hachisuka's very entertaining book “Exploration in the South”, first published 1943. The following are what I found who Mr. K. Koike was in this book.

Mr. Kagio Koike was a excutive of the Japanese Association at Davao. He was not a ornithologist but was living and working in Davao. His age and ocupation were not mentioned in the book but probably had some business about well known Manilaflax [raw material for ropes, sacks, etc.] as many Japanese did there then.

He joined marquis Hachisuka’s Mt. Apo (highest mountain in Philippine 2954m) expedition. How it came was not clear.

During expedition he worked as team manager, hiring local people as porters, negotiations with tribe, fixing food etc and marquis Hachisuka prised Koike’s diplomatic skill. He also had earlier almost climbed Mt. Apo and his experience helped team.

On 11th Feb 1929 they succeeded reach the top of the mountain by new route (approaching from Davao side then down to Cotabato side).

After this expedition they exchanged letters occasionally.

Mr. Koike joined other minor expeditions; one with Japanese and the other with an English ornithologist Mr. Goodfellow.

I couldn’t find any anecdotes about naming Tanygnathus lucionensis koikei subsp. nov.

So marquis Hachisuka simply named the bird in honor of Mr. Koike as he noted [in the OD].

Nobuhiko Osawa​

PS
When I read the book I remembered that once I had met one of expedition members, ornithologist Mr. Yukio Nakamura.

He was very popular among nature lovers in Yamanashi prefecture (where lies about 120km west of Tokyo and MR. Nakamura and I were born in there) and we called him “Uncle bird”. He was known also that man who identified sound of Broad-Billed Roller and Scops Owl.

Longtime Japanese had believed that bird note sounded like “Bu-ppou-so” (means Buddha, Dharma and Munk) was song of Broad-Billed Roller (and as such sacred bird). But no one actually heard Broad-Billed Roller sang like that. It was a mystery in Japanese ornithology. One day in 1935 when Mr. Nakamura heard the song, he shot it. Dropped down from branch was Scops Owl. He solved the mystery. It was those days that they allowed shot down birds to identify or collect.

When I was ten or eleven years old, 1951 or 52, my father arranged a little tour for children along popular and beautiful Syosenkyo Valley, guided by Mr. Nakamura, “Uncle bird”, who lived near the entrance of the valley then. He told us about nature around valley and I had no boring time. He died 1974, 84 years old.

Click to expand...

Wow! Quite a story. With additional facts, details, and all ... :t:

Enjoy!

Björn

PS. Nobuhiko also told me (in another e-mail) that Hachisuka's book didn't mention anything about Mr Koike's age, family, occupation, etc., etc.. The above is just about everything he found. He had also tried to find such facts, on various (Japanese) web-pages, but without success.

Nothing else additional found (by myself), neither regarding his birth year, nor his Death ditto, simply nothing ... except for what's already been shown in this thread, of course.