The Key to Scientific Names
- balliviani
- Gen. José Ballivián y Segurola (1804-1852) Bolivian Army, statesman, President 1841-1847 (Odontophorus).
- boliviae / boliviana / bolivianum / bolivianus / boliviensis
Bolivia (named after Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) "The Liberator", Venezuelan revolutionary, who helped to expel the Spaniards from their South American empire).
- livia
Med. L. livia rock dove. Gaza’s 1476 translation of Gr. πελεια peleia dove, thought to be from πελλος pellos dark-coloured; “named from its livid colour” (Turner 1544) < L. livens, liventis lead-coloured < livere to be bluish; ex “Biset” of Brisson 1760, d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 510, and de Buffon 1770-1783. The Rock Dove is the ancestor of modern domestic and feral pigeons (Columba).
- Livia
(Columbidae; syn. Columba † Rock Dove C. livia) Med. L. livia rock dove (cf. specific name Columba livia J. Gmelin, 1789); "5me GENRE. — BISET. LIVIA. ... C'est l'espèce type de ce genre que Buffon a considérée comme la souche d'où découlent toutes nos races domestiques. ... PIGEON BISET. COLUMBA LIVIA. (Linné.) ... Livie biset . . . . / Livia vulgaris" (des Murs 1854); "Livia des Murs, in Chenu, 1854, Encycl. Hist. Nat., Oiseaux, VI, pp. 34, 40. Type, by original designation, Columba livia (Linnaeus), i.e. Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2021).
- oliviae
● Olive MacLeod (1886-1936) Scottish explorer and fiancée of author Capt. Boyd Alexander (syn. Cercotrichas galactotes minor, syn. Sylvietta brachyura carnapi).
● Lady Olive Mary Archer née Godman (1894-1976) wife of Sir Geoffrey Archer, Commissioner/Gov. of British Somaliland 1914-1922, and ornithologist (Columba).
