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COMMENTS: George Robert Gray based his new name on data and a sketch (of a male specimen) which Alfred Russell Wallace (18231913) sent to Samuel Stevens (1817 1899) in London, first cited at the 22
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(
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,
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: plate LII). On the correct name, authorship and priority see the discussion between
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,
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,
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,
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on one side, and
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,
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),
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, and
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,
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, 1999: 279280) on the other side. The latter demanded the conservation of the younger synonym
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by suppressing the original descriptions in
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and
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. The
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ruled against this suppression and the original name remains therefore
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, first published in
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.
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, any male specimen of
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hands before writing the letter on
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29
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.
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, however, had just arrived on
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on 21
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despatched overland the first bird consignment containing four (according to Wallace's letter from
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birds of
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(
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Four specimens were directly purchased by the BMNH, registered BMNH 1859.6.13.1 ­ BMNH 1859.6.13.4, all now unaccounted for. These missing BMNH specimens may be the four dataless specimens now housed in the BMNH skin collection, of which three are ex­mounted specimens and one skin (
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.
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, no. hk:
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. Any
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(
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.
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,
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).
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, just before the first consignment had arrived in
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,
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,
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agent, had already written to
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(18151883) of the
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of
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informing him of the expected arrival of
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[i.e. Wallace]
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daily, a new + very distinct Bird of Paradise, a new Genus altogether, I have had a sketch of it, it is about
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long, metallic green
</emphasis>
[;]
<emphasis id="B943A935FFBCFF89308B1786FCDCFA64" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">I believe with 2 remarkable plumes white, projecting from the sides of the wings</emphasis>
[.]
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The Price for this remarkable Bird will be £ 20, I expect 2 or
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[;]
<emphasis id="B943A935FFBCFF89319F17D6FAA5FA5C" box="[753,1303,1495,1520]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">if you would like one I will reserve one for you</emphasis>
.&quot; (Historical Dept.
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, Sign. I Stevens, S. II, Blatt 2).
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it was not until
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that the
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received any specimen of
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<emphasis id="B943A935FFBCFF8930121426FBB3F9EC" box="[892,1025,1575,1600]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Semioptera</emphasis>
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(Historical Dept.
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, Sign. SI, Verwaltungsakte Postjournal 1855162, Blatt 148, entry 160).
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the
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finally accepted the offer and paid £ 12 for a pair of
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sent to
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earlier that month (Historical Dept.
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, Sign. I Stevens, S. II, Blatt 3; only the male bird was originally described so that the female bird,
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15474, has no
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status). Later, in 1864, Stevens sent out a sales list to &quot;
<emphasis id="B943A935FFBCFF8930D114EEFEC5F89C" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Ornithologists &amp; Directors of Museums</emphasis>
&quot;, again offering a pair of Wallace's Standardwings, this time for 200 shillings (
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: 3). These birds were certainly from the second consignment
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.
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question now arising is if
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had put aside two birds from the first consignment for
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or if he just sold any bird to
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.
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received a male specimen (
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B.19714; Ian McAllan
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.,
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) from
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on
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, which might also be one of the original
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. A specimen in the
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, numbered 27/
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/20/a/1 (Benson 1999: 187) was purchased from
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son,
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, in 1950.
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bird is certainly not from the first consignment and one has to doubt that
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kept any specimen from the first lot for his own pleasure
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.
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Perhaps the four
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specimens registered in 1859 as well as the birds at
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and
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are best considered possible
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.
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specimen is not mentioned in
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.
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