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| Hartert, Ernst. |
| When in February, on my return from London to Frankfurt, I visited the Leyden Museum, I had — through the liberality of the Director and the kindness of my friend J. Büttikofer — the opportunity of examining the collection of Cypselidae, Caprimulgidae and Podargidae in the Museum, and among them the unique specimen of Caprimulgus binotatus , Bp. Consp. I and Hartl. Orn. W. Afr., a most singular and distinct species, which has no near ally. In a not yet revised lot of Podargidae I noticed a specimen of Batrachostomus, collected by Horner in the province of Padang in W. Sumatra in 1837. The label which is attached to the stand of the specimen bears the name of Podargus poliolophus Temm. n. sp. This name however seems to be unpublished, but the bird is... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
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| Ano: 1892 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/508827 |
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| Hartert, Ernst. |
| In the “Notes from the Leyden Museum” Vol. XXXII, n°. 1, p. 32, Dr. E. D. van Oort published a note about the generic name of the “Snow-Buntings”, and came to the conclusion, that Plectrophenax of Stejneger (1882) had to be accepted as the name for this genus. This conclusion, I am sorry to say, is erroneous, in my opinion. Dr. van Oort rejects the name Passerina Vieillot (Analyse d’une nouvelle Ornithol. élèment., 1816, p. 30) for two reasons. First, because it had been employed in Botany previous to 1816. This, however, is no reason for its rejection, because all modern codes of nomenclature in Zoology have agreed not to consider botanical nomenclature and only to reject generic names if they have been preoccupied in Zoology. Second, because the type of... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
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| Ano: 1910 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/509016 |
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