Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:20:34 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Harvey, David A." Subject: Re: Audubon's Oriole MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" I went home and checked last night but had gotten confused and looked up Audubon's Warbler. The warbler was given Audubon's name by Townsend. Dave Harvey Sykesville, MD -----Original Message----- From: Phil Davis [mailto:PDavis@IX.NETCOM.COM] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 11:23 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Audubon's Oriole 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. Hi= s 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 "Audubo= n to Xantus ... The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Name= s" 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 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================