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[PScofield]

Here , Colonel Dionisio Borbon Gutierrez Snr (1891-1958) Provincial Governor of Cotabato . Governor Gutierrez was born in Batangas , Batangas Province, Philippines, on October 9 1891, the son of Lucio Gutierrez and Fernanda Borbon. Death 27 August 1958 Cotabato, Cotabato Province, Philippines

 

[Taphrospilus]

Edithornis [updated]
‡ (syn. Pareudiastes † Makira Moorhen P. silvestris) Edith Brevoort Baker née Kane (1884-1977) wife of US financier and philanthropist George Fisher Baker, Jr. (1878-1937); Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; the Makira Moorhen is still known only from the single specimen collected by a local hunter in 1929 in primaeval forest on San Cristobal I., Solomon Is.; "EDITHORNIS, new genus ... GENOTYPE.—Edithornis silvestris, new species. ... This remarkable new rail stands out among the numerous discoveries of new species by the Whitney South Sea Expedition. It is a type quite by itself and apparently has no close relative. Of all the rails known to me, the extinct (?) Samoan rail Pareudiastes shows the greatest likeness to Edithornis. It gives me pleasure to name this genus in honor of Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr., who has shown so much interest in the progress of the Whitney South Seas Expedition. Edithornis differs from Pareudiastes by having bill and feet much more developed. The frontal shield is larger and the feathering on the sides of the head is different. Tarsus and feet are comparatively much longer. I can say very little about the habits of this bird, which was collected by one of our native hunters. According to them, this bird, which they call "Kia" (pronounced Keéa), lives in the dense undergrowth of the mountain forest. Apparently it does not fly very much, if at all, and is hunted by the natives with dogs. The bird seems to be very rare, as we did not succeed in getting a second specimen in spite of all the inducements I offered, realizing at once the value of this new genus." (Mayr 1933); "Edithornis Mayr, 1933, American Museum Novitates, 590, p. 1. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Edithornis silvestris Mayr." (mihi 2020).

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds had her only as:

Makira/San Cristobal Moorhen genus Edithornis Mayr, 1933 [Now usually included within Gallinula]
Common Cicadabird ssp. Coracina tenuirostris edithae Stresemann, 1932 [Alt. Sulawesi Slender-billed Cicadabird]
Edith Brevoort Baker née Kane (1884–at least 1930) was the wife (1911) of George Fisher Baker Jr (1878–1937), an American financier who, at the time of their marriage, was Vice President and Director of the First National Bank (his father was President until 1909). He was also an enthusiastic swimmer and yachtsman.

Edithornis OD here
Edolisoma tenuirostre edithae Stresemann, 1932 OD here

Mrs. George Baker zu Ehren benannt.

Trichoglossus flavoviridis edithae Stresemann 1931 OD here

Dieser Vogel ist Mrs. Geoege Baker gewidmet.

All in accordance with the key.

 

[Taphrospilus]

Sorry, I forgot ...

Re. the Etymology itself of Lesson's anais, 1832 (which supposedly also would go for any later generic Anais/Anaïs), see Zoological Bibliography 3 (5), by Dickinson, Bruce & Davis, 2015 (here, p.116), in foot-note (No.73).

At least I assume it's aimed at her, poor child.

Here p. 134 of 184 entry 930 of death record Anaïs written as Anaÿs.

 

[Taphrospilus]

According to this post, Robert F. Baird was born in 1959.

May worth to update the The Key to Scientific Names.

 

[James Jobling]

The Key is in a constant state of flux, as I review new and old texts, and readers may be interested to see the renewed/enlarged definitions under the following, mainly synonymous entries:

Anabatoxenops, Bessornis, Bucolus, Capito, Cariornis, Catharista, Cathartes, Celalyca, Cerorhyncha, Ceycis, Chipiu, Chloristes, Chroiocephalus, Chrysonotus, Cinnyricincle, Colinia, Conirostra, Crypturonerpes, Dasycephala, Dendrocopus, Despotina, Dicrourus, Egretta, Erythrolaema, Eugymnomyza, Euspiza, Euthyonyx, Falcinellus, Gennaeus, Hemilophus, Hemipalama, Laimodon, Lampribis, Lamprotornis, Lobopsis, Mergus, Mesogenea, Micrura, Muscitodus, Myopatis, Nocthura, Orchilus, Ortygis, Ortygometra, Philortyx, Pitta, Polyptila, Premnocopus, Procellaria, Pyromelana, Querquedula, Sarcorhamphus, Schetba, Sittace, Spermopipes, Sporothlastes, Synallaxis, Tachornis, Tachydromus, Tantalus, Timalides, Totanus, Trichas, Trochlotides, Tschagra, Vanellochetusia, Vanga, Zebripicus

You will know that these are my own observations and interpretations, and may temporarily fall outside the ICZN guidelines (I don’t mean to turn your hair white, Laurent!)

 

[James Jobling]

Additional to #105 there follows a further selection of genera which have undergone fresh scrutiny. Having already trawled through Cabanis’s Museum Heineanum and Bonaparte’s Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum / Zygodactylorum, many of these were culled from Selby, 1840, Cat. Generic Subgeneric Types Aves. Almost without exception names from the latter are nomina nuda, lacking authors and citations. However, they have been added to The Key for the sake of interest, historical value and completeness.

Accentor, Aegythalus, Agelajus, Amadina, Anas, Aquila, Arara, Astur, Botaurus, Bucco, Buceros, Buteo, Calliphlox, Chrysopicus, Circus, Clangula, Conurus, Crex, Cymindis, Cynnyris, Cypselus, Emberiza, Euchlornis, Galbula, Harpagus, Hylocharis, Hylophilus, Lamprotornis, Lepidogenys, Leucippus, Malurus, Melittophas, Microcolaptes, Milvus, Monasa, Myiothera, Nauclerus, Nisus, Nyctipetes, Oidemia, Paralcyon, Pastor, Phimus, Piculus, Picumnus, Pionus, Psittaca, Sasia, Spizaetus, Sturnella, Surnia, Syrnium, Tadorna, Tinamus, Tyrannula, Tyrannus, Vanellus, Venilia, Vultur, Zanthornis

 

[James Jobling]

Despite having read and re-read Selby 1840 (see #106), I am still astonished at the number of novelties unearthed on each occasion. Here are further additions to #105 and #106 —
Aglaia, Alectrurus, Calyptorhynchus, Ceblepyris, Coccyzus, Euphonia, Furnarius, Haematornis, Ispida, Mycteria, Phoenicornis, Platycercus, Plyctolophus, Promerops, Spermophila, Tanagra, Trichophorus.

Readers will have noted the introduction of a new abbreviation quasi-syn., which will be added to the Standard Abbreviations and Symbols as follows:

quasi-syn. Quasi-synonym, ghost-synonym. This is a new coinage for the purposes of The Key, being the insertion and diagnosis of a junior generic homonym that distinguishes a different type-species to that fixed in the senior homonym (e.g. Calyptorhynchus, Euphonia, Furnarius, Oidemia).

 

[James Jobling]

I continue to trawl through the old literature (see #107) and provide readers with further additions, updated texts, and amendments (mainly type citations), to the following The Key definitions — Actitis, Aello, Ardea, Ciconia, Dicranurania (2023 genus), Limosa, Nycticorax, Phoenicopterus, Pteroglossus, Pyrrhulauda, Sagittifer, Senurus, Speirops, Stagnicola, Sterna, Sternula, Sturnornis, Sylviella, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx,Tatare,Tchiltrea, Tephronotus, Thalucrania, Tinochorus, Thyello, Todarna, Totanus, Trygon, Tryngas, Uracanthus, Urax, Vermivora, Ziphorynchus

 

[mb1848]

Mr. Jobling I really like your updates to the BOW like #105, 106,107 and 108. If I only have a short time to recreate, I can look up your latest handiwork. Today I looked at Ziphorynchus. In it I saw Dendrocolaptes bivittatus Lichtenstein, 1822. I tried to find the OD and did here:

Ansicht Akademieschriften – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften .

On this digital source I cannot find the drawing of Dendrocolaptes bivittatus .

But it exists and part of it can be glimpsed on the third page 264 of the Google Book version.

Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften .

A 1818 article by Lichtenstein hosted by the Akademie digital library has the drawings.

Ansicht Akademieschriften – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften .

Not related to BOW but I am wondering if anyone has seen the whole drawing of this bird online? And is that the type? Or the bird alive in 1820 is the type? This bird was collected by Friedrich Sello/Sellow in Sao Paulo.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

...
On this digital source I cannot find the drawing of Dendrocolaptes bivittatus .
...
... but I am wondering if anyone has seen the whole drawing of this bird online? ...

Mark, it's there all right (just a bit further on, in comparison to the Google version) ...

Tab. [Tabula/Plate] II, fig. 2 = here

Enjoy!

 

[l_raty]

Mark, it's there all right ... Tab. [Tabula/Plate] II, fig. 2 = here

I was going to post the same thing.

(The volume is in three parts, or Klassen (Physikalische Klasse, Mathematische Klasse, Historisch-philologische Klasse), which are paged separately; the plates illustrating each Klasse are bound at the end of the text of that Klasse. But this is admittedly a bit tricky to find on the German website, as they do not offer any thumbnail view.)

 

[James Jobling]

Readers may have guessed from a previous entry (#108) on this thread that I am now slowly reversing through Waterhouse, 1889, Index Generum Avium, so here are some more updated/new definitions from The Key; —Dynatoaetus (2023 genus), Malacurus, Monassa, Myiagrus, Noddi, Onocrotalus, Ornithaptera, Orsipus, Otocornis, Papegais, Parvus, Peteria, Pionus, Polioaetus, Phyllopseuste, Procne, Psittapous, Pterorrhines, Ptilotreron, Ptiloris, Pygmornis, Pyrilia, Pyrrhura, Rhopotera, Rhynchopsalis.
At Björn’s suggestion I have also inserted two short entries on the frequently used ornis and avis.

 

[James Jobling]

The Key new generic entries, type citations, major augmentations, etc. Still working through Waterhouse (see #112), but the end (i.e. the beginning) is in sight (temporarily distracted by the synonymies and spelling errors in Stuart Baker, 1930, Fauna British India, ed. 2, Birds, VII, and by various threads elsewhere on BirdForum, and so on) —

Adelura, Argusa, Bucolus, Ceriornis, Chrysures, Corax, Corypha, Crithagra, Dendrophaps, Drongo, Dryotomus, Emeraudes, Enicognathus, Episcopus, Euplectes, Ficaria, Fringillarius, Furcaria, Galbulus, Gallinogralla, Gelastes, Glaucopis, Gliciphila, Goisachius, Grithagra, Guaruba, Gymnorhines, Hemiptilon, Hephthaenura, Hierax, Hippolais, Hylophila, Hyphantes, Hypothimis, Hypothymis, Iolaema, Jabirus, Lanius, Larus, Leucoblephara, Leucotaenia, Loriculus, Macrocircus, Maia, Maina, Mainatus, Maja, Penelope, Rubis, Sibia, Spicifer, Tanmanak, Thysanocorax, Turtur

I continue to update the Short Prologue (search a)

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Gallinogralla,

Name given by Blainville but in which work ?

 

[Taphrospilus]

Was the name really given by Blainville or was it develop from 1814-1816 - Bulletin des sciences - Biodiversity Heritage Library where he mentionted Grallinogralles?

 

[mb1848]

A 1834 Dictionary says "GALLINOGRALLES, adj. and s. m. pl. , Gallinogralla . Name given by Blainville to a family of the order Echassiers, by Lesson to a family of the suborder Himantogralles, comprising birds which are intermediate.."
Page 532.
Dictionnaire raisonné, etymologique, synonymique et polyglotte, des termes usités dans les sciences naturelles .

 

[mb1848]

In a 1837 Anthemeum says M. L'Hermenier uses Gallinogralla as "perhaps a seperate family"
Page 900.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle .
Anonymous German writer in 1829 says :
Gallinograllae ( Aves ) . A name suggested by Blainville for a family which, by virtue of its natural distinguishing marks, is to be classified among the chickens and marshbirds. He adds the genera: Struthio and Psophia.
Wörterbuch der Naturgeschichte . P. 526

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Was the name really given by Blainville or was it develop from 1814-1816 - Bulletin des sciences - Biodiversity Heritage Library where he mentionted Grallinogralles?

I asked that because seeing his name in the Keys, I wanted to know if he had written books on ornithology. Obviously I searched on Google but it can happen that the works are inaccessible

 

[James Jobling]

The Key new generic entries, various enhancements. I have now worked through Waterhouse (see #113). The next project will be Charles Richmond’s continuation of Waterhouse’s work (names proposed 1890-1922). I have also started to insert the major publications of authors (e.g. hartlaubi) —
Acanthochaera, Acnemis, Acrulocercus, Aegialtes, Agrodoma, Alectorurus, Anoplorhynchus, Astrilda, Atropia, Aulia, Bessonornis, Biblis, Buchanga, Bulaca, Callistus, Calocitta, Catarracta, Catarrhactes, Ceblephyris, Cenchramus, Ceratorhyncha, Ceratorrhina, Cesarornis, Chaenoramphe, Chaetorhis, Chalcopsittacus, Chamaezosa, Charadias, Chelidonis, Chelochelidon, Chrysocephalus, Coccysus, Coccyzon, Collus, Cordylis, Corethrura, Corythrix, Cotinga, Curruca, Cursor, Curvirostra, Cynniris, Estrelda, Karoocichla, Musicus, Mycteria, Ptilopsis

 

[James Jobling]

The Key: some more recent or notable edits and additions, from various sources (e.g. non-Linnaean Moehring’s Avium Genera, 1752; Brisson’s Ornithologie,1760; Richmond’s supplements (1902, et seq.) to Waterhouse). —
Accipiter, Alcyon, Alector, Anhima, Anisoramphe, Apiaster, Aquila, Araclanga, Arenaria, Asilus, Asio, Atagen, Blythoscopus, Bucco, Butor, Calobamon, Cariama, Caryocatactes, Cela, Cenchramus, Cenchris, Cepphus, Chenalopex, Cheniscus, Chloreus, Cinclus, Colius, Coracia, Cornix, Cryptophaga, Cygnus, Cymindus, Dichrognathus, Dolychoeix, Dupetor, Dybowskia, Ficedula, Fratercula, Gallopavo, Gavia, Glareola, Gymnops, Hesperoburhinus, Hiaticula, Ibis, Ibycter, Ispida, Lanarius, Lepturus, Leucophrya, Meleagris, Merganser, Merula, Monedula, Neomenius, Nisus, Noctua, Numenius, Numida, Onocrotalus, Onychospiza, Orites, Ostralega, Pallenia, Pelargos, Pelecanus, Phalacrocorax, Platea, Plautus, Plectrophanes, Plocealauda, Poliospina, Pomarinus, Pontotriorchis, Ptynx, Raphus, Ripaecola, Rusticola, Rygchopsalia, Saccharivora, Salangana, Schoeniclus, Spheniscus, Spreo, Stenura, Stercorarius, Sula, Tangara, Todirhamphus, Torquilla, Trochilus, Uria, Xanthocincla, Xiphidiopipo