Abstract
In the just-published edition of the influential Howard & Moore global checklist of birds (Dickinson & Christidis 2014, Appendix 8), David and Dickinson introduced the novel spelling bichenoii to replace the specific name for the Double-barred Finch. This finch, which is endemic to Australia and familiar as a cage bird world-wide, is currently known as Taeniopygia bichenovii (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827). The name was spelled bichenovii in its original description by Vigors & Horsfield (1827, p. 258), in the combination Fringilla bichenovii. Until David & Dickinson (l.c.), that spelling had been in unvaried use, in a multitude of checklists, manuals, regional Australian lists and field guides, as well as in hundreds of scientific and natural history papers both printed and electronic. Vigors & Horsfield had explicitly named the finch for James E. Bicheno, then secretary of the Linnean Society. This in turn led David & Dickinson (l.c., p.10) to replace bichenovii with bichenoii under Article 32.5.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, hereafter the Code (ICZN 1999).