Re: RFI:some obscure citations
Aasheesh Pittie (aasheesh@hd1.vsnl.net.in)
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:25:49 -0500
John Penhallurick wrote:
>
> I would be grateful for help with any of the following matters.
>
> Type locality for Francolinus pictus watsoni Legge,1880,Birds Ceylon,3,p.745.
> Does anyone have access to a copy of Legge,1880?
>
> also for Francolinus kirki Hartlaub,1867,Proc.Zool.Soc.London,p.827.
>
> Some other information about Francolins.
> If anyone has access to any of the following, they may be able to find
> information in those:
> Hastings Belshaw,1985,Guineafowl of the World,Nimrod,Hampshire
> Snow,D.1978, Atlas of Speciation in African Non-Passerine Birds,Brit
> Mus.(Nat.Hist),London
> Crowe,1978,Ann.S.Afr.Mus.,76(2),pp.43-136.
>
> An information on the name canidorsalis as a synonym for Scleroptila
> shelleyi shelleyi.
>
> Date and type locality for Francolins shelleyi sequestris Clancey,Durban
> Mus.Novit.,6(2),p.13, a synonym for S.s.shelleyi
>
> Type locality for Francolinus cruzi
> Themido,1937,Compt.Rend.Internat.Congr.Zool.,12,p.1833.a synonym for
> Pternistis swierstrai.
>
> Any information on Francolinus jacksonae patriciae a synnym for Pternistis
> jacksoni.
>
> Publication and locality details for Francolinus afer loangwae Grant &
> Mackworth-Praed,1934, a synonym for Pternistis afer melanogaster.
>
> Publication and type locality details for Pternistis nudicollis Gunning &
> Roberts. This may well be able to be found in the paper by Gunning &
> Roberts,1911,Ann.Transv.Mus.,3,p.110, in which they put forward Pternistes
> castaneiventer as a new name for P.nudicollis,Not of Boddaert.
> Does anyone have access to that issue of Ann Transv.Mus.?
>
> Any information about Francolinus afer notatus a synonym for Pternistis afer
> castaneiventer.
>
> Other than Francolins:
>
> Type locality for Perdicula argoondah salimalii Whistler,1943,Journ.Bombay
> Nat.Hist.Soc.,44,p.208.
>
> Can anyone tell me whether Clancey,P.A.1980,Checklist of South African
> Birds,S.A.O.S.,Durban
> contains synonyms?
>
> Indeed is anyone aware of any sources for synonyms for African birds other
> than Catalogue of Birds of the British Museum and (to some extent)
> Hartert,Vog.Pal.Fauna?
>
> Associate Professor John M. Penhallurick<jmp@comserver.canberra.edu.au>
> Canberra, Australia
> Phone BH( 61 2) 6201 2346 AH (61 2) 62585428
> FAX (61 2) 6258 0426
> Snail Mail Faculty of Communication
> University of Canberra,A.C.T.2601, AUSTRALIA
> OR PO Box 3469, BMDC, BELCONNEN, ACT 2617, AUSTRALIA
>
> "I'd rather be birding!"
> "Vivat,crescat,floreat Ornithologia"
Hartert,Vog.pal.Fauna,p.2016.
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Hi!
Type locality for _Perdicula argoondah salimalii_ is Marikanive, Mysore.
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Best wishes and regards,
Aasheesh Pittie
Hyderabad, India
<AASHEESH@HD1.VSNL.NET.IN>
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