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[AMNH Birds Skin-378232] Bombycilla cedrorum - Locality misspelled #17

Open KenBlankenship opened 9 years ago

KenBlankenship commented 9 years ago

Should be "Sapelo Island"

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You can view the original detail page on VertNet. Here are the original record contents:

Term Value
InstitutionID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925
CollectionID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34926
InstitutionCode AMNH
CollectionCode Birds
BasisOfRecord PreservedSpecimen
OccurrenceID urn:catalog:AMNH:Birds:Skin-378232
CatalogNumber Skin-378232
RecordNumber 20928
IndividualCount 1
Sex male
EstablishmentMeans native
OccurrenceStatus present
Preparations skin
Disposition in collection
EventDate 1888-02-22
StartDayOfYear 54
EndDayOfYear 54
Year 1888
Month 2
Day 22
VerbatimEventDate 2/22/1888
HigherGeography ;;Ga.;;;;;
Continent North America
Country United States
CountryCode US
StateProvince Georgia
Locality Sapalo Island
VerbatimLocality Sapalo Island
ScientificName Bombycilla cedrorum
HigherClassification Animalia;Chordata;Aves;Passeriformes;Bombycillidae;Bombycilla
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Bombycillidae
Genus Bombycilla
SpecificEpithet cedrorum
TaxonRank species
NomenclaturalCode ICZN
Samizdat2003 commented 9 years ago

Thanks again. This one was merely mis-transcribed due to poor handwriting in the catalog. I've also updated it in our database. Tom Trombone AMNH Ornithology

KenBlankenship commented 9 years ago

Cool. I figure most of the old records with small issues like this are just as likely due to poor handwriting as misspellings -- to say nothing of alternate spellings!

On another note, although I have not completed all of the Georgia specimens in the collection at AMNH, I have entered GPS coords. for a good number of them at this point. I have completed the GA specimens in full from ANS, USNM, DMNH, TTRS, GMNH, and a few smaller institutions as well. MCZ is the most challenging, with well over 2000 from Georgia!

Anyway, while your VertNet dataset has already been plotted/geoverified to a certain level, if you'd like me to send you the Lat/Long for what I've done so far you are welcome to check them against yours, use them as you need, etc. I have been working on a long-term project to bring all extant specimens from Georgia all-time together in a single spreadsheet, and I've dug pretty hard to find localities as accurately as possible. However, just like VertNet, there are a good number that I can't plot any better than city or county level.

KB

----- Original Message ----- From: Samizdat2003 notifications@github.com To: amnh-vertnet/amnh-birds amnh-birds@noreply.github.com Cc: KenBlankenship kenhblankenship@comcast.net Sent: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:25:19 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [amnh-birds] [AMNH Birds Skin-378232] Bombycilla cedrorum - Locality misspelled (#17)

Thanks again. This one was merely mis-transcribed due to poor handwriting in the catalog. I've also updated it in our database. Tom Trombone AMNH Ornithology

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