Furthermore, the following publication is at least close enough to start on.  I don't have access today.

@article{forster1781natural,
  title={Natural History and Description of the Tyger-Cat of the Cape of Good Hope. By John Reinhold Forster, LL. DFR and AS},
  author={Forster, J.R.},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London},
  volume={71},
  pages={1--6},
  year={1781},
  publisher={JSTOR}
}

Alan


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, the full nomenclatural information is:

Pygoscelis papua (J.R. Forster, 1781).  So there is a publication by J. R. Forster in 1781, describing this penguin. 

Alan


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia:

The application of Gentoo to the penguin is unclear, according to the OED, which reports that Gentoo was an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as 1638 to distinguish Hindus in India from Muslims, the English term originating in Portuguese gentio (compare "gentile"); in the twentieth century the term came to be regarded as derogatory.

This needs to be followed up.  One interesting publication would be

@article{calaby1999european,
  title={The European Discovery and Scientific Description of Australian Birds.},
  author={Calaby, JH},
  journal={Historical Records of Australian Science},
  volume={12},
  number={3},
  pages={313--329},
  year={1999},
  publisher={CSIRO}
}


to which I do not have access.  However, this investigation is not over.  The scientific name of the Gentoo Penguin is Pygoscelis papua. It should not be difficult to find the original description?





Alan Davis

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
On 12/21/2011 04:59 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, LinuxIsOne<reallife@hmamail.com>  wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder<daniel@admin-box.com>  wrote:

Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727

But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser!


That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by
default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate
throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your
trusted authorities.

What sucks is that you can't even get rid of the warnings even if you accept and add the cert to Firefox.  Every time you click on an attachment in a bug, you get presented with a warning dialog again, and again, and again, and again, until you get mad and start shooting bunnies.  That's because the domain changes with attachments (for some reason, b.g.o. uses subdomains instead of URLs to link to attachments.)

So it's either add cacert.org to your trusted authorities, or live in hell when browsing b.g.o.  IMO that's just stupid.  I want to trust just b.g.o, not every site out there that has a cacert certificate.  Stupid.  Just stupid.