Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:23:25 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: Audubon's Oriole Comments: To: sheath@erols.com In-Reply-To: <38D7D33D.23CE8B7E@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 02:53 PM 03/21/2000 -0500, Susan Heath wrote: >Does any know who named the Audubon's Oriole? I don't believe it was >Audubon since there's no Audubon's Oriole plate in Birds of America. My >bird name dictionary only says it was named after Audubon but doesn't >say who named it. Sue - Hmmm ... off the top of my head ... Audubon's Oriole _Icterus graduacauda_ (and also Audubon's Shearwater) were first described by French ornithologist R. P. Lesson [in 1839] but Audubon's name was not associated with either until some years later. His name was first attached to Audubon's Oriole in 1841, in a paper in the Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History written by the treasurer of the society, Jacob P. Giraud. OK ... the real citation from which this information was taken is "Audubon to Xantus ... The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names" by Barbara and Richard Mearns, Academic Press Limited, 1992. Phil ================================== Phil Davis Davidsonville, Maryland USA mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com ================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =======================================================================