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![Syntype of Dicrurus ( Chibia ) longirostris Ramsay, 1882 [MSNG 22529 (A 13360)] (bottom), with Geoffroyus heteroclitus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) (A 13330) (top).](profile/Carlo-Violani/publication/254912221/figure/fig2/AS:297883795509250@1448032439786/Syntype-of-Dicrurus-Chibia-longirostris-Ramsay-1882-MSNG-22529-A-13360-bottom.png)
Syntype of Dicrurus ( Chibia ) longirostris Ramsay, 1882 [MSNG 22529 (A 13360)] (bottom), with Geoffroyus heteroclitus (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) (A 13330) (top).
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An attempt is made to reconstruct the trail of a collection of birds from the Solomon Islands to museums in Genoa (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria”, Genova), Turin (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino) and Milan (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano), Italy, with the aid of museum specimens, documents and letters. The birds of...
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... A memo from Finsch to Ramsay written in Sydney notes, " I shall come in the course of this afternoon in order that we may begin to make some choices in regard to duplicates " (letter in Ramsay papers, Mitchell Library ML.MSS.1589/3). Some of the specimens concerned, including one evidently collected by Cockerell, were shortly afterwards acquired from Finsch by Count Turati and are now in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano (McAllan et al., 2005). Ramsay also exchanged some specimens with Giacomo Doria in Genoa in early 1883. ...
... Even though at least three of these four specimens were in front of Ramsay at the time of the description of Graucalus elegans, neither the labels nor the register were adjusted to show these specimens were types. McAllan et al., 2005). It is labelled as a male " Graucalus elegans or minor Ramsay, sp. ...
... Finsch visited the Australian Museum on 29 August 1881. Although there is no account of the visit, the letter from Finsch to Ramsay indicates duplicate specimens were exchanged between them at this meeting (McAllan et al., 2005). Ramsay named the taxon at a meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW on 23 February 1881, and it first appeared in print in Nature on 21 July 1881, though it did not appear in the Proceedings until 12 September 1881. ...
In the years 1879–1882 the Curator of the Australian Museum, Edward P. Ramsay, named 15 bird taxa largely based upon specimens collected in the Solomon Islands by James F. Cockerell in 1878. Investigations based upon the original correspondence and examination of the specimens determined that the specimens used by Ramsay to describe these taxa were dispersed to at least six museums. The number of types collected by Cockerell is larger than previously thought, with only 40 of the 93 known extant type specimens being held by the Australian Museum. The dates of publication of these taxa, the journals of original publication and related nomenclatorial issues are discussed.
