Talk:Frank Finn

Factual inaccuracies
Ploceus megarhynchus cannot be named after Frank Finn, because Frank Finn was 1 year old in the year of the description of this bird (1869). --Melly42 17:48, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Research by User:Smallweed on the topic. Shyamal 14:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC) "To quote Beolens and Watkins: ''Hume first described the weaver from a specimen collected by [Frank] Finn at Kaladoongi in India, and [Eugene William] Oates gave it its vernacular name in 1889 or 1890.' Obviously the first part of this sentence is incorrect, but the second half seems reasonable, and I think Frank Finn is the right man, as he was in India at that time. I have no idea if Hume gave the bird a common name in 1866 or just the scientific name, and no idea who did collect the bird in Kaladoongi. Smallweed 13:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)"
 * See NHM Type database

Genus: 	Ploceus Species: 	megarhynchus Subspecies: Author: 	Hume Year: 	1869 Family or Sub-family: 	Ploceidae Reference: 	Ibis, (2) 5 : 356. Type: 	Syntype Description: 	Adult female. Registration No.: 	1887.1.1.1660. Location: 	Kaladoongi, (below Nynee Tal, vide Hume, Stray Feathers, 6 (1878) : 400), India, Dec. 1866. Collector: 	Collected by A. O. Hume. Hume Collection. Notes: 	The other syntype is in the collection. I think it was rediscovered by Finn and hence the common name. Shyamal 14:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There is another reference which may explain this (unfortunately have no access)

Finn, F. (1899) On a new species of weaver bird. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 13(2):377-378. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shyamal (talk • contribs) 14:08, August 27, 2007 (UTC)