Furthermore, the following publication is at least close enough to start on. I don't have access today.
@article{forster1781natural, title={Natural History and Description of the Tyger-Cat of the Cape of Good Hope. By John Reinhold Forster, LL. DFR and AS}, author={Forster, J.R.}, journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London}, volume={71}, pages={1--6}, year={1781}, publisher={JSTOR} } Alan On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, the full nomenclatural information is: > > *Pygoscelis papua* (J.R. > Forster<http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/J.R._Forster>, > 1781). So there is a publication by J. R. Forster in 1781, describing this > penguin. > > Alan > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia: >> >> The application of *Gentoo* to the penguin is unclear, according to the * >> OED <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED>*, which reports that *Gentoo* was >> an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as 1638 to distinguish >> Hindus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu>in India from Muslims, the English >> term originating in Portuguese >> *gentio* (compare "gentile <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile>"); in >> the twentieth century the term came to be regarded as >> derogatory<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derogatory> >> . >> >> This needs to be followed up. One interesting publication would be >> >> @article{calaby1999european, >> title={The European Discovery and Scientific Description of Australian >> Birds.}, >> author={Calaby, JH}, >> journal={Historical Records of Australian Science}, >> volume={12}, >> number={3}, >> pages={313--329}, >> year={1999}, >> publisher={CSIRO} >> } >> >> to which I do not have access. However, this investigation is not over. >> The scientific name of the Gentoo Penguin is *Pygoscelis papua. It should >> not be difficult to find the original description?* >> >> >> >> Alan Davis >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de>wrote: >> >>> On 12/21/2011 04:59 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, >>>> LinuxIsOne<reallife@hmamail.**com<reall...@hmamail.com>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder<dan...@admin-box.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: >>>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=27727<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by >>>> default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate >>>> throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your >>>> trusted authorities. >>>> >>> >>> What sucks is that you can't even get rid of the warnings even if you >>> accept and add the cert to Firefox. Every time you click on an attachment >>> in a bug, you get presented with a warning dialog again, and again, and >>> again, and again, until you get mad and start shooting bunnies. That's >>> because the domain changes with attachments (for some reason, b.g.o. uses >>> subdomains instead of URLs to link to attachments.) >>> >>> So it's either add cacert.org to your trusted authorities, or live in >>> hell when browsing b.g.o. IMO that's just stupid. I want to trust just >>> b.g.o, not every site out there that has a cacert certificate. Stupid. >>> Just stupid. >>> >>> >>> >> >