<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The Manx Shearwater (<italic>Puffinus puffinus</italic>) rarely visitor to middle Europe already in the 19th century. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_cszma-2018-0005_ref_020_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1ab1ac20Aa">Holewa (1900)</xref> introduced a species for Silesia (before 1899), but nothing more in known, not even his source, and his work was criticized at his time. Nevertheless, he rightly assumed the generic membership as well as did all later authors, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_cszma-2018-0005_ref_034_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1ab1ac34Aa">Mlíkovský’s (2012)</xref> evaluation that H. Holewa mentioned an unknown name “<italic>Puffinus anglicus</italic>” or that he had mistaken it with the name of the Gull-billed Tern</p></abstract>

The Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) rarely visitor to middle Europe already in the 19th century. Holewa (1900) introduced a species for Silesia (before 1899), but nothing more in known, not even his source, and his work was criticized at his time. Nevertheless, he rightly assumed the generic membership as well as did all later authors, Mlíkovský’s (2012) evaluation that H. Holewa mentioned an unknown name “Puffinus anglicus” or that he had mistaken it with the name of the Gull-billed Tern

Manx Shearwater (<italic>Puffinus puffinus</italic>) in Holewa’s list of Silesian birds

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Manx Shearwater () in Holewa’s list of Silesian birds

The Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) rarely visitor to middle Europe already in the 19th century. Holewa (1900) introduced a species for Silesia (before...

Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) in Holewa’s list of Silesian birds

Published Online: Sep 19, 2018

Page range: 67 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2018-0005

Keywords
Manx Shearwater, “”, Silesia, Czech Republic, historical ornithology, misinterpreting

© 2018 Jiří J. Hudeček, published by Sciendo

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Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) in Holewa’s list of Silesian birds

Published Online: Sep 19, 2018

Page range: 67 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cszma-2018-0005

KeywordsManx Shearwater, “”, Silesia, Czech Republic, historical ornithology, misinterpreting

© 2018 Jiří J. Hudeček, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Manx Shearwater, “”, Silesia, Czech Republic, historical ornithology, misinterpreting