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Forest 1535 1°B, (1430)BuenosAires,Argentina. ©BritishOrnithologists' Club2003 Bertram Lutley Sclater and Bertram's Weaver Ploceus bertrandi by R.J. Dowsett &J.A. Jobling Received22August2002 Shelley (1893: 23-24) named a new weaver from Nyasaland (now Malawi) Hyphantornisbertrandiafter"BertramLutleySclater".Thefollowingyearhenamed a race of bush-shrike after him, Laniarius bertrandi (Shelley 1894: 15), now Malaconotusolivaceusbertrandi, againwiththesamespellingineachcase. Sclater's brotherWilliam Lutley Sclater (1930) used the English name "Bertram's Weaver". Until recently all authors of regional avifaunas have assumed that this was no errorby Shelley, and that he did intend to latinize the name Bertram as Bertrandus, inwhatiscurrentlyknownasPloceusbertrandi(e.g. Bensonetal. 1971,Mackworth- 1 & RJ.Dowsett J.A.Jobling 136 Bull. B.O.C. 2003 123(2) Praed & Grant 1963). However, both Wynne (1969) and Jobling (1991) gave his name as Bertrand L. Sclater, and Sibley & Monroe (1990) gave P. bertrandi the English name ofBertrand's Weaver. In order to decide if this change to the English name was justified, enquiries were made of Wellington College, Berkshire, where B.L. Sclater was educated. Bertram Lutley Sclater (1866-1897), son of Philip Lutley Sclater, was a pupil at Wellington College 1880-1883. In 1883 he joined the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in 1885 became a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. From 1891- 1893heservedinNyasalandandin 1894wasattachedtotheIntelligenceDepartment, beingpromotedtoCaptainin 1895. Hedidnothimselfcollectthebirdsnamedinhis honour(they were obtained byAlexanderWhyte), but Shelley and his fatherPhilip Lutley Sclater(Shelley 1893: 2,24)mentionedthathewas"Mr.Johnston'sprincipal officer in Nyassaland, and Commander ofhis police force" (i.e. right-hand man to the Commissioner, the future Sir Harry Johnston). He died in Zanzibar on 25 July 1897 (Rangeley 1958) while engaged in building the Uganda Railway. So,thecorrectsubstantivenameofPloceus(Hyphantornis)bertrandiisBertram's Weaver. We can only assume that Shelley thought "bertrami" too ugly and coined theLatinequivalentbertrandi.Wearenotawareofthisnamebeingusedspecifically foranyotherbird(ormammal),butnotethatRiley (1931: 279)hadnocompunction in naming as bertrami a new form ofthe butterfly Charaxes varanes from Oman. Acknowledgements Forbiographical information onBertramLutley SclaterwethankJohnEdwards, Secretarytothe Old WellingtoniansSociety. References: Benson,C.W.,Brooke,R.K.,Dowsett,R.J.&Irwin,M.P.S. 1971.ThebirdsofZambia.Collins,London. Jobling,J.A. 1991.Adictionaryofscientificbirdnames. OxfordUniv. Press,Oxford. Mackworth-Praed,C.W.&Grant,C.H.B. 1963.BirdsofthesouthernthirdofAfrica.(Vol.2).Longmans, London. Rangeley, W.H.J. 1958. The origins ofthe principal street names ofBlantyre and Limbe. NyasaJ. 1 (2): 41-54. Riley,N.D. 1931.Twonew CharaxesfromsouthernArabia.Entomologist64: 279-280. Sclater,W.L. 1930.SysternaAviumAethiopicarum.Vol. 2. BOU,London. Shelley, G.E. 1893. List ofbirds collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., in Nyassaland. (With a prefacebyPL. Sclater). Ibis(6)5: 1-29. Shelley,GE. 1894.SecondlistofbirdscollectedbyMr.AlexanderWhyte,F.Z.S.,inNyasaland.Ibis(6) 6: 1-28. Sibley, C.G & Monroe, B.L., Jnr 1990. Distribution andtaxonomy ofbirds ofthe world. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. Wynne,O.E. 1969.Biographicalkey-namesofbirdsoftheworld-toauthorsandthosecommemorated. Privatelypublished,Fordingbridge. Addresses: R.J. Dowsett, 12 rue des Lavandes, Ganges F-34190, France, [email protected]; J.A. Jobling, 14 The Valley Green, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 7DQ, England, [email protected] ©BritishOrnithologists' Club2003