Zoological Citation Notes -- Q

Zoological Citation Notes --Q

• Peters Checklist 9:338 (= Rand 1960) cites this as

  Laniarius quadricolor Cassin, 1851, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia,
  5 (1852), p.245.

  in this volume of the Peters Checklist, the publication date is printed in parentheses.
• The interpretation that this taxon was not published until 1852 is a presumption that requires support and documentation. Rand offers no explanation for this date, and it is not supported by Sclater Syst.Aethiop. 2:635; CBBM 8:164; or the Richmond Index.
• Indeed Rand himself cites (p.329) Dryoscopus sublacteus Cassin from the page following this (p.246) to 1851 (!!!).
• H&M 3^rd:458 has the date correct as 1851.
• Thanks to Colin Jones for picking up my error in following the Peters Checklist on this erroneous date.

• Originally described in Ptilopus and for this reason Peters Checklist 3:33 places the authority in parentheses. This is followed by H&M 3^rd:176 and by HBW 4:217.
• It appears to me that Ptilopus is an 1841 Strickland emendation of Swainson's Ptilinopus. As an emendation it appears to me that it implies that the authority here should not be in parentheses.

• Often given as 1861 (e.g. Cat.B.Brit.Mus. 22:458; H&M 3^rd Ed.:36)
• This part was published in Feb. 1862.

• Peters Checklist 12:202 lists "pl.62" this does not agree with other sources. I follow the Richmond index, and Sherborn here.

• Peters Checklist 12:181 lists "1877".
• The Richmond index and Duncan show that this part of the volume was published in April, 1878.