Psittacula calthropae Blyth, 1849 & Anthus calthropae Layard, 1867 (1 Viewer)

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Psittacula calthropae Blyth, 1849 OD here
Anthus cathropae Layard, 1867 OD here
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims

Layard's Parakeet Psittacula calthropae Blyth, 1849 [Alt. Emerald-collared Parakeet]
Pipit sp. Anthus calthropae Layard, 1867 NCR [Alt. Short-tailed Pipit; JS Anthus brachyurus]
Barbara Anne Calthrop (DNF) became the first wife of Edgar Layard (1845). They had one son (1848), who collected with his father. She was the daughter of he Reverend John Calthrop, Vicar and Squire of Gosberton, near Spalding, Lincolnshire. Blyth originally mis-transcribed Layard's notes as 'calthrapae'.

The Key to Scientific Names

Barbara Anne Calthrop (?1814-?1886) first wife of English diplomat and naturalist Edgar Layard (syn. Anthus cinnamomeus).

The Key to Scientific Names

Original spelling of specific name Palaeornis calthorpae Blyth, 1849.

Apart from the question regarding the correct life dates I ask myself last name Cathrop (as written by Layard himself) or Calthrop (with L)?

 

[PScofield]

Barbara Anne Calthrop (1814-1886) With an "L"

Barbara Anne "Annie" Calthrop
Birth Jun 1814 Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England
Marriage 18 Oct 1845 Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England
Death 14 Jun 1886 Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

Father Rev. John Calthrop (1783-1846)
Mother Barbara Calthrop Bonner (1783-1866)
Spouse Edgar Leopold Layard (1824-1900)

Layard was I guess English but was born in the Berti Palace in Florence.

 

[l_raty]

Psittacula calthropae Blyth, 1849 OD here

Note that Blyth's OS was actually calthrapae, and that this is what is currently used by all major checklists -- i.e., the emendation calthorpae, as in current Key, is not used anymore.

 

[l_raty]

i.e., the emendation calthorpae, as in current Key, is not used anymore.

The emendation "calthorpae" may be attributable to Sharpe 1900, who explicitly replaced calthropae with this spelling, claiming Layard himself had told him that his wife "was a Miss Calthorp" and that calthropae was a misprint, both for the parakeet and for the pipit.

(This spelling had been used a couple of times before this but, in all the earlier instances I have seen, the change would not be demonstrably intentional.)

(Maybe Layard indeed complained that his wife's name kept being misspelled -- which was true: "Calthrap" for the parakeet, "Cathrop" for the pipit -- but Sharpe misunderstood what the correct spelling should have been ?)

 

[PScofield]

Just in case anyone doubts the spelling, here is her parent's marriage certificate. The parents were 2nd cousins and both Calthrops.

 

[l_raty]

No doubt on my side.
But calthorpae (i.e., Calthorp), after having been introduced by Sharpe, was accepted by Peters and contaminated a significant part of the subsequent literature.
It was still used in H&M3.
And -- which was the main reason why I continued discussing the issue -- it is still presented as the valid name of a species in the genus Psittacula in the Key:

calthorpae
Barbara Anne Calthrop (1814-1886) first wife of English diplomat and naturalist Edgar Layard (Psittacula).

...despite: Layard's Parakeet - Psittacula calthrapae - Birds of the World