Date:         Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:23:25 -0500
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From:         Phil Davis <PDavis@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Audubon's Oriole
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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



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