Talk:Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller

Colorblind?

In Catalogue of the Birds of the British Museum (Vol. 23, p.57 footnote on Aramides cajanea) it is said:

[P.L.S.] Müller wrote this word cajanea, and, as Cassin has shown, this is the oldest name for the species. Even if Müller's work should some day be repudiated by ornithologists on account of his carelessness and his apparent colour-blindness, then the proper name of the species would be Aramides major (Boddaert), founded on Daubenton's plate.

Not clear if Müller was in fact colorblind, or if (cf. "apparent") the term was used in a colloquial sense signifying a general unreliability of his color descriptions. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 13:20, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Umlaut or not?

Although the accepted wisdom seems to be that the surname is Statius Muller rather than Statius Müller, it looks like that may not be true. Presumably the reasoning for the un-umlated spelling is that the family came from the Netherlands, and Dutch doesn't use the umlaut in spelling. If you go to the German Wikipedia, however, there's a reference[[1]] that starts with a quote supporting the non-umlaut spelling, but then presents others that say the name was Statius in the Netherlands and Müller was added to make it sound more German. And the title page of his best-known work [[2]] uses the umlaut Chuck Entz (talk) 01:02, 2 January 2012 (UTC)