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Zoological Bibliography 2018 4(6)The avian genus‐group name Clanga Adamowicz dates from1854
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ABSTRACT: Following the revelation that a prior name (Clanga Adamawicz, 1858) existed forthe genus‐group name Aquiloides, several earlier publications of the same obituary, have cometo light. These are documented and the source citation corrected accordingly.
KEYWORDS: Aquila, Aquiloides, Clanga, Adamowicz, date of publication.

Wells & Inskipp (2012) reported the findings of molecular studies of various species once
included in the genus Aquila and, noting that some had been segregated in Ictinaetus orLophaetus, they argued that the spotted eagles also needed segregation. For the three species
involved they proposed the genus‐group name Aquiloides with Aquila clanga Pallas, 1811, asthe type species. However it was soon observed, by the late Richard Klim, that a prior namehad been overlooked, namely Clanga Adamowicz, 1858.1
Adamowicz was in fact publishing an obituary of Count Konstanty Tyzenhauz, whodied on 16 March 1853.2 Listing his, Tyzenhauz’s, publications Adamowicz (1858) ended thelist with an unpublished manuscript,3 concerning which Adamowicz (p. 604) gave somedetails – including the proposal for a new genus‐group name Clanga and mention of threeincluded species: “Clanga nævia (Falco maculatus Gmelini); C. fasciata et C. macrodactyla (v. d.
Muhle)”.4
What was missing from the obituary in the “Revue et Magasin de Zoologie” was theinformation that Adamowicz had already published this information twice before. Theearliest was in the “Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou”, 26 (4): 517‐529.
The second 1853 volume of the “Bulletin”5 comprised parts 3 and 4 of volume 26 andwas issued in two halves, as evidenced by a supplementary title page for the ”seconde partie”.
Part 3 made up signatures 1 through 19, pp. 1–294, the title page for which showed a Russian
censor’s permission to print on August 24, 1853, on the verso. The title page for the second
half, part 4, (signatures 20 through 40, pp. 299–594) showed the equivalent date as February
1 Published in the December 1857 issue of the “Revue et Magasin de Zoologie” published after the December
month end.
2 Actually cited on p. 525 of the obituary as “28 (16) Mars” thus giving the Julian date 16 and the Gregoriandate 28.
3 “Observations sur la faune ornithologique des provinces de la Nouvelle‐Russie situées sur les côtes de lamer Noire. 1853.”
4 Heinrich von der Mühle, author of Monographie der europäischen Sylvien, and Beiträge zur Ornithologie
Griechenlands.
5 Accessed 20.1.18. BHL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107026#page/7/mode/1up.

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Zoological Bibliography 2018 4(6)Figure 1. Censor’s approval and date from verso of title page, “Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes deMoscou”, 26 (4).

9, 1854 (in the Julian calendar) (figure 1). The 1854 obituary is entitled Nécrologie. Notice sur leComte Constantin Tyzenhaus. In this the list of Tyzenhaus’s “publications” occupies pp. 526‐
529 and the relevant section in that is on pp. 528‐529 (figure 2) – where the listing of the threeincluded species is very slightly different: C. macrodactyla is attributed to “v. d. Muhle”.
The next publication of the obituary was in the Warsaw Library journal (BibliotekaWarszawska, ogólnego zbioru 60, vol. 4) for 1855 (pp. 206‐217) and listed the relevant MS as
the 19th publication, as it was in the Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, instead of the 20th, which it
was in the earliest of the three published versions.

Figure 2. Item 20, introduction of new genus‐group name Clanga, pp. 528‐529, “Bulletin de la Société Impériale
des Naturalistes de Moscou”, 26 (4).

Consequently, contra Richmond (1917), Baker (1930) and Gregory & Dickinson (2012), thegenus‐group name Clanga should be cited from the 1854 obituary as follows:
Clanga Adamowicz, 1854, fem.
Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 26, no. 4, p. 529
Type by tautonymy, Falco maculatus J. F. Gmelin, 1788 = Aquila clanga Pallas, 1811
Clanga clanga (Pallas, 1811)
Falco maculatus J. F. Gmelin, 1788, nec Falco maculatus Tunstall, 1771.

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Zoological Bibliography 2018 4(6)ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Józef Hordowski would like to thank Professor Jakub Dolatowski for all his help.
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Addresses: Arboretum and Department of Physiography in Bolestraszyce, Bolestraszyce 130, PL‐37‐700
Przemyśl, skr. poczt. 471, Poland. e‐mail: j.hordowski@yahoo.pl. Steven M. S. Gregory, 35 MonarchRoad, Northampton, Northamptonshire NN2 6EH, U.K., e‐mail: sgregory.avium@ntlworld.com.

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