> oft repeated miss-spelling of the
species name of the Collared Sparrowhawk, (with the extra wrong h in it
-cirrhocephalus should be cirrocephalus).
It may be unfortunate, but the fact is that according to the rules of
nomenclature the first-published name is the correct one, even
if it contains what would be misspellings (or other errors) in another
context. While it is asserted that the first 'h' in cirrhocephalus is
unnecessary in anglicising it from Greek (why, I am not enough of a
Classics scholar - or any of one - to say) the fact is that Vieillot
wrote it thus, so that's what it is!
cheers all
IF
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