[cobirds] MacGillivray's Warbler / Tolmie's Warbler

Jared Del Rosso says:

> For a rather odd story, chase a MacGilvray's Warbler -- which is actually
> named after two different people: MacGilvray and an ornithologist named
> Tomlie. Audubon and Townsend are responsible for the mix-up, and I'm
> not yet sure what MacGilvray and Tolmie had to do with the species or
> why Audubon's selection (MacGilvray) superseded Townsend's (Tomlie,
> who Townsend also recognized in the scientific name: Geothlypis tolmiei.)

It's all laid out very nicely in a Jan. 2011 article in Birding magazine by Dr. Harold Eyster, a birder who has recently moved to Boulder Co. Harold was a high school student when he wrote the article! ABA members, download the complete article (and all other ABA magazine content) from the ABA website. The rest of you, here's enough to get you started:



Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder Co.

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