The Helm dictionary of scientific bird names [electronic resource] : from aalge to zusii

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mtmot to a chachalaca, and the error was perpetU-ated in nomenclature by Linnaeus 's name for ille

Mulieri picus Urom gyn. specific name HemiisPhus inuelleri Bonaparte. l850 M. pulverulentus, Great Slaty Woo eckeo: picus Woo ecker. The student who delues into Prince Bonaparte, passionfor Coining new names will find some fascinatingmateriai. but will he frustraled by the lack of explanation acco mying n large portion of them. Minyof the Prince 's contemporaries, and subsequentornithologi sis of a less intuitive perception were horrified and dismayed by his disregard forgrammar and the classic s. He was the clari ing of French ornithologi sis, who regarded hini as ' Pundes ornithologistes les plus celebres de P Europe', hut Cabanis raged ahout barbarisms which werenei ther Greek nor Latin. Coues dismi sed his laterwOrk as wOrthless and pernicious, and Sharpe

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musculus L. musculus litile mouse clim Dom mus

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Sondm. I. 25 l. sub nomine vernaculo: Shod

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nescitus L. negatus deni est refused, suppressed negare to refuse)

nos locis I nos locium I nos lectus L. neglectus

notishorrionsis Nil giri Hilis. India

nemoricotta L. nemus, nemoris forest, wood. - Gla

nemus, nemoris forest Od. vagus wandering.

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and the name could also he construod a Compound of the specific combinations Nesonetia aureliandi a Auckland Island Teal. and Eliasmo retia chlorotis. Brown Teal. with whicli species A. nesistis was

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us sistant coloniat secretary on Mauriliusi 859-l8JJ. naturalist and collector in Madagascar

nidipondolum I nidipondulus L nidus, nidi nest.

and 'Sterna cauda subforficata, Corpore Cnno, Capite rostroque nigro, pedibus rubris' of

and 'Ardea nigra. pectore abdomineque albo ' of innaeus si 463 Ciconia) 'Psittacus niger