The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Aedonis
(Muscicapidae; syn. Luscinia † Common Nightingale L. megarhynchos) L. aëdon, aëdonis nightingale < Gr. αηδων αηδων aēdōn, αηδονος aēdonos nightingale, songstress < αειδω aeidō to sing; "Aëdonis luscinia, Nightingale. Aëdonis hortensis, Pettychaps. Aëdonis garrula, Babillard. Aëdonis atricapilla, Blackcap." (Morris 1837) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); "Aëdonis F. O. Morris, 1837, The Naturalist (ed. N. Wood), II (9), p. 126. New name for Luscinia T. Forster, 1817." (JAJ 2019) (see Seiren).
Var. Aedon.
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