Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
The Dutch Mr. Goffin in two various (!?) "Goffin's Cockatoo" or "Goffin's Corella" …
The common names of various Parrots is a tricky thing, especially since the Pet Nomenclature, bot regarding their Scientific and Common names, seldom follows the taxonomic views of Ornithology …
As I understand it … goffini, goffiniana and goffinii (not considering their validity today or not) in …
● the (today, most often, invalid) Cacatua "goffini" FINSCH 1863 (a junior synonym of C. ducorpsi/ducorpsii PUCHERAN 1853).
● Cacatua goffiniana ROSELAAR & MICHELS 2004: "… named after Andreas Leopold Goffin, to respect the original intent of Otto Finsch …"
... both birds(!) known as "Goffin's Cockatoo", "Goffin's cackatoo" or "Goffin's Corella" (today, both, most often called "Tanimbar Cockatoo" or sometimes "Tanimbar Corella").
● as well as the sub-species Trachylaemus purpuratus goffinii GOFFIN (named by SCHLEGEL) 1863.
... all commemorate the Dutch Lieutenant ("4de regiment infanterie") and Ornithologist Andréa Leopold Auguste Goffin (maybe 1838, but more likely 1839–1863) a k a (in various transcriptions or interpretations, in different languages) as/to Andrea (without accent) or Andreas.
He died after "Brustleiden" (German for: Chest Pain) on the 15th of October 1863, in Maastricht, Netherlands: "… in den ouderdom van 24 jaren" (Dutch for: "… in the age of 24"). See Death notice in De Nederlandsche No. 44. 30 oktober 1863 (here). This Mr. Andréa Goffin was a friend and colleauge, at the Natural History Museum (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) in Leyden, of Otto Finsch who described the former – the same year that Goffin died.
Goffin is also known for (his one and only Ornithological publication) the 98-pages long article regarding the ("sub-order") "Buccones" published in January 1863, as Monographie No. XV in Schlegel's Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas … Revue Méthodique et Critique des Collections déposées dans cet Établissement. Tome I – where he himself (among many other birds) described (but Schlegel named it – without any comment!) as "Capito Goffinii" (today the subspecies Trachylaemus purpuratus goffinii).
Regarding the first "specie", from 1863 Otto Finsch, who described it as "Lophochroa Goffini", based on two live specimens he had found in a Zoological Garden in Amsterdam, only wrote (in Finsch, O. 1863. Naamlijst der in de Diergaarde Levende Papegaaijen ten dienste der bezoekers van den tuin ingerigt. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor De Dierkunde 1. VI-XXIV: p.XXIII):
"Ik heb deze fraaije soort aan den Herr A. GOFFIN uit vriendschap opgedragen." that translated would be something like: "I have dedicated this beautiful species to Mister A. GOFFIN out of friendship.”
Four years later Finsch published the first volume of his large Parrot monograph Die Papageien where he suddenly, this time highly aware og Goffin's death, explains some more regarding the name of the same bird, now called " Plictolophus Goffini, … Goffin's Kakatu" apparently at least one specimen still alive in the Zoological Garden in Amsterdam ("… Lebend in Zoolog. Garten von Amsterdam":
Anyone of our German knowing friends "out there" feel like having a go?
PS. This "A. Goffin" not to be confused (which has been done) with the Belgian collector Alfred Goffin, who collected exotic fishes in Africa in the beginning of the 1900's.
The common names of various Parrots is a tricky thing, especially since the Pet Nomenclature, bot regarding their Scientific and Common names, seldom follows the taxonomic views of Ornithology …
As I understand it … goffini, goffiniana and goffinii (not considering their validity today or not) in …
● the (today, most often, invalid) Cacatua "goffini" FINSCH 1863 (a junior synonym of C. ducorpsi/ducorpsii PUCHERAN 1853).
● Cacatua goffiniana ROSELAAR & MICHELS 2004: "… named after Andreas Leopold Goffin, to respect the original intent of Otto Finsch …"
... both birds(!) known as "Goffin's Cockatoo", "Goffin's cackatoo" or "Goffin's Corella" (today, both, most often called "Tanimbar Cockatoo" or sometimes "Tanimbar Corella").
● as well as the sub-species Trachylaemus purpuratus goffinii GOFFIN (named by SCHLEGEL) 1863.
... all commemorate the Dutch Lieutenant ("4de regiment infanterie") and Ornithologist Andréa Leopold Auguste Goffin (maybe 1838, but more likely 1839–1863) a k a (in various transcriptions or interpretations, in different languages) as/to Andrea (without accent) or Andreas.
He died after "Brustleiden" (German for: Chest Pain) on the 15th of October 1863, in Maastricht, Netherlands: "… in den ouderdom van 24 jaren" (Dutch for: "… in the age of 24"). See Death notice in De Nederlandsche No. 44. 30 oktober 1863 (here). This Mr. Andréa Goffin was a friend and colleauge, at the Natural History Museum (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) in Leyden, of Otto Finsch who described the former – the same year that Goffin died.
Goffin is also known for (his one and only Ornithological publication) the 98-pages long article regarding the ("sub-order") "Buccones" published in January 1863, as Monographie No. XV in Schlegel's Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas … Revue Méthodique et Critique des Collections déposées dans cet Établissement. Tome I – where he himself (among many other birds) described (but Schlegel named it – without any comment!) as "Capito Goffinii" (today the subspecies Trachylaemus purpuratus goffinii).
Regarding the first "specie", from 1863 Otto Finsch, who described it as "Lophochroa Goffini", based on two live specimens he had found in a Zoological Garden in Amsterdam, only wrote (in Finsch, O. 1863. Naamlijst der in de Diergaarde Levende Papegaaijen ten dienste der bezoekers van den tuin ingerigt. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor De Dierkunde 1. VI-XXIV: p.XXIII):
"Ik heb deze fraaije soort aan den Herr A. GOFFIN uit vriendschap opgedragen." that translated would be something like: "I have dedicated this beautiful species to Mister A. GOFFIN out of friendship.”
Four years later Finsch published the first volume of his large Parrot monograph Die Papageien where he suddenly, this time highly aware og Goffin's death, explains some more regarding the name of the same bird, now called " Plictolophus Goffini, … Goffin's Kakatu" apparently at least one specimen still alive in the Zoological Garden in Amsterdam ("… Lebend in Zoolog. Garten von Amsterdam":
With only limited knowledge of German I hope that anyone of Bird Forums readers feel like translating this quote for me!? If so, please as accurate as possible, as I would like to quote it myself in Swedish. And don´t hesitate to remark on any errors that I might have done transcribing it.
Anyone of our German knowing friends "out there" feel like having a go?
PS. This "A. Goffin" not to be confused (which has been done) with the Belgian collector Alfred Goffin, who collected exotic fishes in Africa in the beginning of the 1900's.
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