Edward C. Dickinson and Alain Lebossé 49 Zoological Bibliography 2018 5(4) A study of d’Orbigny’s “Voyage dans l’Amerique Meridionale” IV. New avian names deriving from d’Orbigny’s expedition with evidence for their first introduction and necessary corrections to authorship, dates and citations1 Edward C. Dickinson and Alain Lebossé COPYRIGHT: © 2017 Dickinson and Lebossé. This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT: The detailed six‐part review by Hellmayr (1921‐25) of the important ornithological findings of d’Orbigny in South America made use of the limited available information then available to him on the dates of publication of the 90 individual livraisons of d’Orbigny’s report on the birds. This was against a background of relative uncertainty as to the dates of publication of the two parts of the Synopsis Avium by d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye in the Magasin de Zoologie published by Guerin‐Meneville. The later findings of Sherborn & Griffin (1934), based on a set of wrappers of d’Orbigny’s book, allowed more certainty regarding the content of each wrapper, but the reported wrapper dates themselves (year dates only) cast doubt on issue sequence, and better information on the individual dates of the livraisons was not brought forward. Here that evidence is assembled and the interaction of these dates with the probable publications dates for the two parts of the Synopsis Avium is assessed. Based on this each genuinely new name proposed in either work is presented as a recommended valid original name, accompanied by citations to the same taxon elsewhere in either work. The sequence of taxa treated is essentially that followed by Hellmayr (based on that in the Synopsis Avium). Attention is drawn to the need for multiple corrections to dates, to authorship and to a few original spellings of names. KEYWORDS: authors, dates of publication, precedence, First Revisers, spelling corrections, original wrappers, Alcide d’Orbigny, de Lafresnaye, Magasin de Zoologie, South America, Hellmayr, ICZN Code, types, new combinations. 1 ZB Contribution No. 3b to the ZooBank verification process; No. 3c will be No. V in this series. This paper was preceded, in this series (and in this volume), by “I. The contents of the parts of the volume on natural history” which complements the evidence reported on by Sherborn & Griffin (1934)”,“II. On the composition of the 1837 and 1838 volumes of the Magasin de Zoologie”and “III. A correction in respect of the split of the Synopsis Avium in the 1837 volume of the Magasin de Zoologie”. It will be followed by (No. V), indicating where and how the real precedence contradicts Sherborn’s entries in his Index Animalium, and by (No. VI), which comments on types held in the museum in Paris (MNHN). ISSN 2045–4651 9AED5520‐F35F‐4532‐ACED‐0B7828945521 Published 9 March 2018 Edward C. Dickinson and Alain Lebossé 50 Zoological Bibliography 2018 5(4) TABLE OF CONTENTS: 2 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................... 51 THE SYNOPSIS AVIUM AND ITS DATES OF PUBLICATION ..................................................................................... 52 THE LIVRAISONS OF THE “VOYAGE” AND THEIR DATES OF PUBLICATION ......................................................... 54 GEOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................................................... 66 AUTHORSHIP ......................................................................................................................................................... 67 NEWLY DESCRIBED TAXA ...................................................................................................................................... 67 TYPES ..................................................................................................................................................................... 70 FORMAT OF TAXON ACCOUNTS ........................................................................................................................... 72 TAXON ACCOUNTS ............................................................................................................................................... 74 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 201 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................................ 202 FIGURES 1. Bibliographie de la France 1835 pp. 187–188 ........................................................................................... 55 2. Notice from l’Echo du Monde Savant, 1834 ........................................................................................... 56 3. Bibliographie de la France 1835 p. 474 ..................................................................................................... 57 4. Bibliographie de la France 1835 p. 236 ..................................................................................................... 57 TABLES I. Comparison of the wrapper dates reported by Sherborn & Griffin (1934) and the earliest dates of availability based on French library receipts ........................................................ 58–61 II. One basis for the evaluation of precedence of the livraisons of the Voyage (Oiseaux only) is the date of each one ................................................................................................................ 62–63 III. The livraisons in which the bird plates appeared ............................................................................ 64 IV. Wrapper dates of all 90 livraisons ....................................................................................................... 66 APPENDICES I. Dates of publication based on our research compared with dates used in the Catalogue of the birds of the Americas Incl. Table A ................................................................................................ 219 II. A brief geographical background (incl. maps) ................................................................................ 239 III. Species not included in the main text of this article (A1 to A9) ..................................................... 245 IV. Names of families, subfamilies, genera and subgenera in the Synopsis Avium .......................... 255 V. The name Tangara cyanocephala as used by Storer (1970: 324) and many other authors By Edward C. Dickinson & Kevin J. Burns ........................................................................................... 259 VI. Index to all scientific names by which the taxa described have been known in major works .......................................................................................................................................................... 261 VII. Finding special topics within the text ............................................................................................ 271 2 This paper is so long that the editor was encouraged to insert this and an index to key topics (Appendix VII). ISSN 2045–4651 9AED5520‐F35F‐4532‐ACED‐0B7828945521 Published 9 March 2018 Edward C. Dickinson and Alain Lebossé 51 Zoological Bibliography 2018 5(4) INTRODUCTION The The Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833 par Alcide d’Orbigny (hereafter the Voyage) was reported in some detail by Coues (1879: 254‐255) who noted that the birds made up Partie 3 of volume IV, and listed the subjects of the 67 plates. The title page for this ‘partie’ bears the dates 1835‐1844, but the last pages were not published until 1847 and it is incomplete. The Prospectus, published no later than early 1835, promised 75 livraisons each containing 6 to 7 feuilles of text and 6 plates at the rate of one livraison per month (Bibliographie de la France, 1835: 187‐188). This wishful thinking was repeated at intervals over the years through to about 1843. The work was discussed by Sherborn & Woodward (1901), briefly again by Sherborn (1922: xcvii), based on minimal information, and, with full details, by Sherborn & Griffin (1934). Zimmer (1926) did not list this work as present in the Ayer Library. But it was present in McGill University, Montreal and was listed by Wood (1931: 615). More recently it has been discussed by Browning & Monroe (1991), Evenhuis (1997) and Dickinson et al. (2011). Hellmayr (1921a, b, 1923, 1925a, b, c) – hereafter when referred to collectively given as “Hellmayr, 1921‐25” – based on specimens in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris reviewed the birds collected and described by Alcide d’Orbigny (1803‐1857) in South America. He verified identifications and linked d’Orbigny’s names to the current ornithological nomenclature of the time. He carefully also reported on identifiable type specimens in the collection. We shall draw heavily on Hellmayr’s work in what follows (and not just on the six‐part paper mentioned above). Hellmayr (1921a: 171) noted “as so often happens with works planned on a large scale, the volume was never completed, and ended suddenly with the matter