u/chinstrapppp

Ok so this is a lot to explain. I was intensly researching the Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon, and in trying to track down all of the previous scientific names for it, I discovered this weird thing.

So. The first image is of Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeons. These are the species I believe went undiscovered because someone misidentified them. The second photo is of Pinon's Imperial Pigeon. This is the species I believe the Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon was misidentified for.

Pinon's Imperial Pigeon (PIP) was first described by Gaimard in 1823. At the time it was described as Columba pinon.

In 1826, our misidentifier, René Primevère Lesson, noticed some pigeons on New Ireland (3rd to 5th slide) that he identified as Columba pinon, the PIP. The translation isn't perfect but you can see what he's trying to say (the original language was French).

In the final slide, you see John Gould's Birds of New Guinea, where all the descriptions of the Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon are listed. And there, at the very top, you see Lesson's description, with a written link to the exact page in which he was talking about the "Pinon's Pigeon" that was actually a Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon. And in parentheses, you see "nec Quoy et Gaim", which, as far as I can tell, means something to the effect of "not Quoy and Gaimard," meaning that Lesson's pigeon was not the PIP described in 1823 by Quoy and Gaimard.

This obviously isn't the first time historical figures have made a misidentification, and it's definitely been noted by some people before since it's written plainly in Birds of New Guinea, but it's still funny and definitely not well-known.

I'll give the links to everything so you guys can verify if you wish:

The Birds of New Guinea page:

https://archive.org/details/birdsnewguineaa5goul/page/n260/mode/1up

Lesson's original account of the pigeon:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/119030#page/356/mode/1up

Right after finishing this aquarium, I received the message that my Zombie Nautilus had suffocated in a wall. This was very random as there's nothing in the aquarium that would cause them to dash (pufferfish) and they should be able to maneuver through all the 1-block spaces. Could it be the waterlogged copper grates on the ceiling? It's concerning as I have two more Zombie Nautiluses and quite a few regular nautiluses in here, and I don't want to lose anymore.

Edit: Noticed I'm missing a turtle too so the issue seems even worse than I thought...something is claiming my large aquatic mobs :(

Congratulations to u/Lopsided_Ice_2032 for the winning name 😭

There's a spider dungeon in the redstone room, an abandoned mineshaft above the city, an amethyst geode (not pictured) literally inside one of the structures, and a lush cave also above the city.

I'm trying to edit this puffin image, and at first I used the auto mask feature on the puffin, which worked well. However, by the end of the editing process, I realized the foliage in the foreground looked very distorted. I realized that the edits on the puffin, which looked fine on the sharp subject, carried over to the rest of the image in much smaller amounts. As the edits accumulated, it increased until the foliage looked very odd, ruining an otherwise great edit. After that I tried to use the manual mask, carefully brushing the entire area I wanted to edit (pictured) and even using a negative brush on the foliage just for good measure. But the edits STILL carried over to the foliage! Is there any way to fix this, because right now I just cannot edit the image to my standards without completely ruining the soft foreground.

Edit: I found a semi-solution, it doesn't actually fix the error but it's a workaround. Add as many masks as possible in one tune image session (5 is the max) instead of doing multiple sessions. It will still affect the whole photo but at 5x less than it would with 5 seperate masks.