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Rookmaaker, L.C.; Wyhe, J.van, 2024. Shared experiences of Alfred Russel Wallace and Hermann von Rosenberg in exploring the ornithology of New Guinea and the Aru Islands in 1858–1860. Ardea 112 (2): 323-330, figs. 1-3, drawing by Jos Zwarts, and supplementary Table S1 (5 pp.)
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Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) and Carl Benjamin Hermann, Baron von Rosenberg (1817-1888) were naturalists with similar goals in their exploration of the Malay Archipelago. They first met in May 1858 on the coast of Dorey, the north-western part of New Guinea. Together they discovered two birds new to science, the Dusky Lory, Pseudeos fuscata (Blyth, 1858) and the Fairy Lorikeet, Charmosynopsis pulchella (G.R. Gray, 1859). Wallace did not propose new names himself, while the Chalcopsitta leucopygialis Rosenberg, 1859 (nomen nudum) and Charmosyna pectoralis Rosenberg, 1862 lost their priority. When Rosenberg was working out the distribution of various birds in the archipelago in 1862, he had not yet had a chance to visit the Aru Islands. His list of 86 Aru species was contributed by Wallace, and this is here compared with Wallace’s own unpublished notebook entries and the identifications by George Robert Gray (1808-1872) in 1858 largely based on Wallace’s specimens bought by the British Museum.
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