Richard Böhm (1 October 1854 −27 March 1884)
Böhm's Bee'eater, Böhm's Spinetail
Richard Böhm was a German zoologist and explorer.
He was the son of Ludwig Böhm and Franziska Louise Meyerlinck. He studied zoology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena with Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) and attained a doctorate in 1877. Afterwards he went on an expedition to Africa exploring Zanzibar and then, in East Africa, the east bank of Lake Tanganyika and the southeast of Lake Upemba, which he discovered (1880–1884). His correspondence appeared in 1888 under the title Ostafrika, Sansibar und Tanganjika heraus: Von Sansibar zum Tanganjika. Böhm wrote numerous articles in the Journal of Ornithology from 1882 to 1887. He died of an attack of malaria. Anton Reichenow (1847–1941) and Herman Schalow (1852–1925) dedicated bird species to him.
Other species named after him: Böhm's Flycatcher & Streaky-breasted Flufftail Sarothrura boehmi.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B%C3%B6hm
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Kurrichane
Kurrichane
Kurrichane Thrush, Kurrichane Buttonquail
Kaditshwene aka Gaditshwene or Karechuenya, was a South African Iron Age settlement some 25 kilometres northeast of the present-day North West Province town of Zeerust. It was the cultural capital of the Bahurutshe people, one of the principal Tswana tribes and a centre of manufacturing and trading. The missionary, John Campbell, came across this settlement in the Tshwenyane hills of the Marico in 1820, at which time its population of 20 000 exceeded that of Cape Town. Archaeologists estimate that it had been founded in the late 1400s on the site of iron and copper ore deposits.
In 1821, during the Mfecane, the town was sacked by the Batlokwa under the warrior queen, Mantatisi. The attack was followed round 1823 by another under Sebetwane and the Bafokeng tribe. The survivors fled west and sought sanctuary among the Bakwena and other Tswana tribes. Crumbling stone walls, foundations, ash middens and remains of a metal working industry are the only evidence of the settlement's previous existence. In 2011 the ruins were declared a National Heritage Site by the Government.
John Campbell referred to the town as “Kurreechane”, a rendition which has survived in Kurrichane thrush and Kurrichane buttonquail, species that were described from there by Andrew Smith.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaditshwene
Kurrichane Thrush, Kurrichane Buttonquail
Kaditshwene aka Gaditshwene or Karechuenya, was a South African Iron Age settlement some 25 kilometres northeast of the present-day North West Province town of Zeerust. It was the cultural capital of the Bahurutshe people, one of the principal Tswana tribes and a centre of manufacturing and trading. The missionary, John Campbell, came across this settlement in the Tshwenyane hills of the Marico in 1820, at which time its population of 20 000 exceeded that of Cape Town. Archaeologists estimate that it had been founded in the late 1400s on the site of iron and copper ore deposits.
In 1821, during the Mfecane, the town was sacked by the Batlokwa under the warrior queen, Mantatisi. The attack was followed round 1823 by another under Sebetwane and the Bafokeng tribe. The survivors fled west and sought sanctuary among the Bakwena and other Tswana tribes. Crumbling stone walls, foundations, ash middens and remains of a metal working industry are the only evidence of the settlement's previous existence. In 2011 the ruins were declared a National Heritage Site by the Government.
John Campbell referred to the town as “Kurreechane”, a rendition which has survived in Kurrichane thrush and Kurrichane buttonquail, species that were described from there by Andrew Smith.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaditshwene
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William John Swainson (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855)
Swainson's francolin
Swainson's sparrow
Swainson's antcatcher
Swainson's fire-eye
Swainson's flycatcher
Swainson's toucan
Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of John Timothy Swainson the Second (1756-1824), an original fellow of the Linnean Society.[1] He was cousin of the amateur botanist Isaac Swainson.[2] His father's family originated in Lancashire, and both grandfather and father held high posts in Her Majesty's Customs, the father becoming Collector at Liverpool.
William, whose formal education was curtailed because of an impediment in his speech, joined the Liverpool Customs as a junior clerk at the age of 14. He joined the Army Commissariat and toured Malta and Sicily. He studied the ichthyology of western Sicily and in 1815, was forced by ill health to return to England where he subsequently retired on half pay. William followed in his father's footsteps to become a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1815.
In 1806 he accompanied the English explorer Henry Koster to Brazil. Koster had lived in Brazil for some years and had become famous for his book Travels in Brazil (1816).[5] There he met Dr Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, also an explorer of Brazil, and Russian Consul General. They did not spend a long time on shore because of a revolution, but Swainson returned to England in 1818 in his words "a bee loaded with honey", with a collection of over 20,000 insects, 1,200 species of plants, drawings of 120 species of fish, and about 760 bird skins.
As with many Victorian scientists, Swainson was also a member of many learned societies, including the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society after his return from Brazil on 14 December 1820,[3][6] and married his first wife Mary Parkes in 1823, with whom he had four sons (William John, George Frederick, Henry Gabriel and Edwin Newcombe) and a daughter (Mary Frederica). His wife Mary died in 1835.
Swainson remarried in 1840 to Ann Grasby, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1841. Their daughter, Edith Stanway Swainson, married Arthur Halcombe in 1863. Swainson was involved in property management and natural history-related publications from 1841 to 1855, and forestry-related investigations in Tasmania, New South Wales, and Victoria from 1851 to 1853. Swainson died at Fern Grove, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, on 6 December 1855.
Works on natural history
Swainson was at times quite critical of the works of others and, later in life, others in turn became quite critical of him.
Apart from the common and scientific names of many species, it is for the quality of his illustrations that he is best remembered. His friend William Elford Leach, head of zoology at the British Museum, encouraged him to experiment with lithography for his book Zoological Illustrations (1820–23). Swainson became the first illustrator and naturalist to use lithography, which was a relatively cheap means of reproduction and did not require an engraver. He began publishing many illustrated works, mostly serially. Subscribers received and paid for fascicles, small sections of the books, as they came out, so that the cash flow was constant and could be reinvested in the preparation of subsequent parts. As book orders arrived, the monochrome lithographs were hand-coloured, according to colour reference images, known as ‘pattern plates’, which were produced by Swainson himself. It was his early adoption of this new technology and his natural skill of illustration that in large part led to his fame.
When Leach was forced to resign from the British Museum due to ill health, Swainson applied to replace him, but the post was given to John George Children. Swainson continued with his writing, the most influential of which was the second volume of Fauna Boreali-Americana (1831), which he wrote with John Richardson. This series (1829–1837) was the first illustrated zoological study to be funded in part by the British government. He also produced a second series of Zoological Illustrations (1832–33), three volumes of William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, and eleven volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia; he had signed a contract with the London publishers Longman to produce fourteen illustrated volumes of 300 pages in this series, one to be produced quarterly.
Classification
In 1819 William Sharp Macleay had published his ideas of the Quinarian system of biological classification, and Swainson soon became a noted and outspoken proponent.[10] The Quinarian System fell out of favour, giving way to the rising popularity of the geographical theory of Hugh Edwin Strickland. Swainson was overworked by Dionysius Lardner, the publisher of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia and both Swainson and Macleay were derided for their support of the Quinarian system. Both proponents left Britain; Swainson emigrated to New Zealand and Macleay to Australia. An American visiting Australasia in the 1850s heard to his surprise that both Macleay and Swainson were living there, and imagined that they had been exiled to the Antipodes
'for the great crime of burdening zoology with a false though much laboured theory which has thrown so much confusion into the subject of its classification and philosophical study'.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J ... m_Swainson
Swainson's francolin
Swainson's sparrow
Swainson's antcatcher
Swainson's fire-eye
Swainson's flycatcher
Swainson's toucan
Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of John Timothy Swainson the Second (1756-1824), an original fellow of the Linnean Society.[1] He was cousin of the amateur botanist Isaac Swainson.[2] His father's family originated in Lancashire, and both grandfather and father held high posts in Her Majesty's Customs, the father becoming Collector at Liverpool.
William, whose formal education was curtailed because of an impediment in his speech, joined the Liverpool Customs as a junior clerk at the age of 14. He joined the Army Commissariat and toured Malta and Sicily. He studied the ichthyology of western Sicily and in 1815, was forced by ill health to return to England where he subsequently retired on half pay. William followed in his father's footsteps to become a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1815.
In 1806 he accompanied the English explorer Henry Koster to Brazil. Koster had lived in Brazil for some years and had become famous for his book Travels in Brazil (1816).[5] There he met Dr Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff, also an explorer of Brazil, and Russian Consul General. They did not spend a long time on shore because of a revolution, but Swainson returned to England in 1818 in his words "a bee loaded with honey", with a collection of over 20,000 insects, 1,200 species of plants, drawings of 120 species of fish, and about 760 bird skins.
As with many Victorian scientists, Swainson was also a member of many learned societies, including the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society after his return from Brazil on 14 December 1820,[3][6] and married his first wife Mary Parkes in 1823, with whom he had four sons (William John, George Frederick, Henry Gabriel and Edwin Newcombe) and a daughter (Mary Frederica). His wife Mary died in 1835.
Swainson remarried in 1840 to Ann Grasby, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1841. Their daughter, Edith Stanway Swainson, married Arthur Halcombe in 1863. Swainson was involved in property management and natural history-related publications from 1841 to 1855, and forestry-related investigations in Tasmania, New South Wales, and Victoria from 1851 to 1853. Swainson died at Fern Grove, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, on 6 December 1855.
Works on natural history
Swainson was at times quite critical of the works of others and, later in life, others in turn became quite critical of him.
Apart from the common and scientific names of many species, it is for the quality of his illustrations that he is best remembered. His friend William Elford Leach, head of zoology at the British Museum, encouraged him to experiment with lithography for his book Zoological Illustrations (1820–23). Swainson became the first illustrator and naturalist to use lithography, which was a relatively cheap means of reproduction and did not require an engraver. He began publishing many illustrated works, mostly serially. Subscribers received and paid for fascicles, small sections of the books, as they came out, so that the cash flow was constant and could be reinvested in the preparation of subsequent parts. As book orders arrived, the monochrome lithographs were hand-coloured, according to colour reference images, known as ‘pattern plates’, which were produced by Swainson himself. It was his early adoption of this new technology and his natural skill of illustration that in large part led to his fame.
When Leach was forced to resign from the British Museum due to ill health, Swainson applied to replace him, but the post was given to John George Children. Swainson continued with his writing, the most influential of which was the second volume of Fauna Boreali-Americana (1831), which he wrote with John Richardson. This series (1829–1837) was the first illustrated zoological study to be funded in part by the British government. He also produced a second series of Zoological Illustrations (1832–33), three volumes of William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, and eleven volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia; he had signed a contract with the London publishers Longman to produce fourteen illustrated volumes of 300 pages in this series, one to be produced quarterly.
Classification
In 1819 William Sharp Macleay had published his ideas of the Quinarian system of biological classification, and Swainson soon became a noted and outspoken proponent.[10] The Quinarian System fell out of favour, giving way to the rising popularity of the geographical theory of Hugh Edwin Strickland. Swainson was overworked by Dionysius Lardner, the publisher of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia and both Swainson and Macleay were derided for their support of the Quinarian system. Both proponents left Britain; Swainson emigrated to New Zealand and Macleay to Australia. An American visiting Australasia in the 1850s heard to his surprise that both Macleay and Swainson were living there, and imagined that they had been exiled to the Antipodes
'for the great crime of burdening zoology with a false though much laboured theory which has thrown so much confusion into the subject of its classification and philosophical study'.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J ... m_Swainson
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Dixon Denham (1 January 1786 – 9 June 1828)
Denham's Bustard
Dixon Denham was an English soldier, explorer of West Central Africa, and ultimately Governor of Sierra Leone.
He was born at Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London on New Year's Day, 1786, the son of James Denham, a haberdasher, and his wife Eleanor, née Symonds. The youngest of their three sons, Denham was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from 1794 to 1800; on leaving he was articled to a solicitor, but joined the army in 1811.
After serving in the Napoleonic Wars, Denham volunteered in 1821 to join Walter Oudney and Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton on an official expedition across the Sahara to Bornu (now in northeastern Nigeria), in the Lake Chad basin. After enduring danger and privation, they arrived at Kuka, the capital of Bornu, on Feb. 17, 1823. In December 1823, while Clapperton and Oudney set out on a journey westward, Denham explored the shores of Lake Chad and the lower courses of the Waubé, Chari, and Logone rivers. Returning to England in 1825, Denham became a celebrity. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed superintendent of liberated slaves in West Africa in 1827. The next year he was made governor of Sierra Leone, but after serving for only 5 weeks he died of malaria at Freetown on 9 June 1828, aged 42. The fourth governor of the colony to perish in as many years in he died owing several thousand pounds to his brother, John Charles. Denham was buried at the city's Circular Road cemetery on 15 June.
Denham's exploits are briefly mentioned in Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon, Chapter 30: 'My dear fellow, we are now upon the very track of Major Denham. It was at this very city of Mosfeia that he was received by the Sultan of Mandara; he had quitted the Bornou country; he accompanied the sheik in an expedition against the Fellatahs; he assisted in the attack on the city, which, with its arrows alone, bravely resisted the bullets of the Arabs, and put the sheik's troops to flight. All this was but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage. The major was completely plundered and stripped, and had it not been for his horse, under whose stomach he clung with the skill of an Indian rider, and was borne with a headlong gallop from his barbarous pursuers, he never could have made his way back to Kouka, the capital of Bornou.'
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dixon-Denham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_Denham
Denham's Bustard
Dixon Denham was an English soldier, explorer of West Central Africa, and ultimately Governor of Sierra Leone.
He was born at Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London on New Year's Day, 1786, the son of James Denham, a haberdasher, and his wife Eleanor, née Symonds. The youngest of their three sons, Denham was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from 1794 to 1800; on leaving he was articled to a solicitor, but joined the army in 1811.
After serving in the Napoleonic Wars, Denham volunteered in 1821 to join Walter Oudney and Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton on an official expedition across the Sahara to Bornu (now in northeastern Nigeria), in the Lake Chad basin. After enduring danger and privation, they arrived at Kuka, the capital of Bornu, on Feb. 17, 1823. In December 1823, while Clapperton and Oudney set out on a journey westward, Denham explored the shores of Lake Chad and the lower courses of the Waubé, Chari, and Logone rivers. Returning to England in 1825, Denham became a celebrity. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed superintendent of liberated slaves in West Africa in 1827. The next year he was made governor of Sierra Leone, but after serving for only 5 weeks he died of malaria at Freetown on 9 June 1828, aged 42. The fourth governor of the colony to perish in as many years in he died owing several thousand pounds to his brother, John Charles. Denham was buried at the city's Circular Road cemetery on 15 June.
Denham's exploits are briefly mentioned in Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon, Chapter 30: 'My dear fellow, we are now upon the very track of Major Denham. It was at this very city of Mosfeia that he was received by the Sultan of Mandara; he had quitted the Bornou country; he accompanied the sheik in an expedition against the Fellatahs; he assisted in the attack on the city, which, with its arrows alone, bravely resisted the bullets of the Arabs, and put the sheik's troops to flight. All this was but a pretext for murders, raids, and pillage. The major was completely plundered and stripped, and had it not been for his horse, under whose stomach he clung with the skill of an Indian rider, and was borne with a headlong gallop from his barbarous pursuers, he never could have made his way back to Kouka, the capital of Bornou.'
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dixon-Denham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_Denham
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Arnot
David Arnot (1821-1894 )
Arnot's Chat
David Arnot was born in Uitenhage and received his education at the South African College, Cape Town, from 1836 to 1838 and thereafter settled in Colesberg as a general agent. In 1860 he was appointed agent of the Griqua chief Nikolaas Waterboer. Motivated by self-interest and British-imperialist tendencies he devoted his energies to promoting the interests of the Griquas of Griqualand West and opposing those of the settlers in the Orange Free State, particularly in obtaining for the Griquas possession of the territory south of the Vaal River and west of the Ramah-Platberg line. Largely through his efforts Griqualand West (including the diamond fields) was proclaimed British territory in 1870. Arnot made a number of land claims in the territory and was eventually granted the farm Eskdale and another block of farms near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal rivers. In 1874 he became a member of the Legislative Council of Griqualand West. With his friend F.H.S. Orpen, Surveyor-General of Griqualand West, as co-author, he published a book entitled The land question of Griqualand West: an inquiry into the various claims of land in that territory; together with a brief history of the Griqua nation. He settled on his farm Eskdale in the 1870s, but moved to Cape Town in 1880.
Arnot was a naturalist with wide interests. During his stay in Colesberg he collected plants, particularly succulents, and before or in 1859 sent a box of living succulent plants to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London, for which W.H. Harvey thanked him in the preface to Volume 1 of the Flora Capensis (1860). His contribution included living aloes, stapelias, crassulas, mesembryanthemums, and cotyledons. Later he also contributed some Stapeliads to Sir Henry Barkly's collection. In due course the species Stapelia arnotii, Talinum arnotii, Haemanthus arnotii, and Hypoxis arnotii were named in his honour, as was the land snail Sheldonia arnotti. He had an interest also in ornithology and Arnot's Chat, Myrmecocichla arnoti, still carries his name. Other material that he collected included fossil reptiles and mammals. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and of the (British) Geographical Society in 1875 and became a corresponding member of the South African Philosophical Society in October 1877.
Source:
http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=98
Arnot's Chat
David Arnot was born in Uitenhage and received his education at the South African College, Cape Town, from 1836 to 1838 and thereafter settled in Colesberg as a general agent. In 1860 he was appointed agent of the Griqua chief Nikolaas Waterboer. Motivated by self-interest and British-imperialist tendencies he devoted his energies to promoting the interests of the Griquas of Griqualand West and opposing those of the settlers in the Orange Free State, particularly in obtaining for the Griquas possession of the territory south of the Vaal River and west of the Ramah-Platberg line. Largely through his efforts Griqualand West (including the diamond fields) was proclaimed British territory in 1870. Arnot made a number of land claims in the territory and was eventually granted the farm Eskdale and another block of farms near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal rivers. In 1874 he became a member of the Legislative Council of Griqualand West. With his friend F.H.S. Orpen, Surveyor-General of Griqualand West, as co-author, he published a book entitled The land question of Griqualand West: an inquiry into the various claims of land in that territory; together with a brief history of the Griqua nation. He settled on his farm Eskdale in the 1870s, but moved to Cape Town in 1880.
Arnot was a naturalist with wide interests. During his stay in Colesberg he collected plants, particularly succulents, and before or in 1859 sent a box of living succulent plants to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London, for which W.H. Harvey thanked him in the preface to Volume 1 of the Flora Capensis (1860). His contribution included living aloes, stapelias, crassulas, mesembryanthemums, and cotyledons. Later he also contributed some Stapeliads to Sir Henry Barkly's collection. In due course the species Stapelia arnotii, Talinum arnotii, Haemanthus arnotii, and Hypoxis arnotii were named in his honour, as was the land snail Sheldonia arnotti. He had an interest also in ornithology and Arnot's Chat, Myrmecocichla arnoti, still carries his name. Other material that he collected included fossil reptiles and mammals. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and of the (British) Geographical Society in 1875 and became a corresponding member of the South African Philosophical Society in October 1877.
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http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=98
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Baillon
Louis Antoine François Baillon (20 January 1778 – 3 December 1855)
Baillon's Crake
Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville.
His father, Jean-François-Emmanuel Baillon (1742-1801), a lawyer and correspondent of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, introduced him to natural history. In 1798, Baillon began work at as an assistant at the Jardin des Plantes, a position he relinquished following the death of his father. Afterwards, he settled in Abbeville, and like his father, became known for his correspondence with famed naturalists. In his studies, the younger Baillon maintained correspondence with Franco Andrea Bonelli, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied.
During his career, he developed an ornithological collection that was initiated by his father, a collection that eventually grew to 6000 items. Baillon's collection (birds only) is now conserved in "Musée George Sand et de la Vallée noire" in La Châtre. In addition to birds from France, it contains exotic specimens from French voyages of exploration, notably birds from the expeditions of Jacques Labillardière and Jules Dumont d'Urville.
The single publication of LAF Baillon is the Catalogue des Mammifères, Oiseaux, Reptiles, Poissons et Mollusques testacés marins, observés dans l'arrondissement d'Abbeville.
Baillon's crake is named for him, as is Baillon's shearwater and Baillonius bailloni (saffron toucanet).
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ant ... is_Baillon
Baillon's Crake
Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville.
His father, Jean-François-Emmanuel Baillon (1742-1801), a lawyer and correspondent of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, introduced him to natural history. In 1798, Baillon began work at as an assistant at the Jardin des Plantes, a position he relinquished following the death of his father. Afterwards, he settled in Abbeville, and like his father, became known for his correspondence with famed naturalists. In his studies, the younger Baillon maintained correspondence with Franco Andrea Bonelli, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied.
During his career, he developed an ornithological collection that was initiated by his father, a collection that eventually grew to 6000 items. Baillon's collection (birds only) is now conserved in "Musée George Sand et de la Vallée noire" in La Châtre. In addition to birds from France, it contains exotic specimens from French voyages of exploration, notably birds from the expeditions of Jacques Labillardière and Jules Dumont d'Urville.
The single publication of LAF Baillon is the Catalogue des Mammifères, Oiseaux, Reptiles, Poissons et Mollusques testacés marins, observés dans l'arrondissement d'Abbeville.
Baillon's crake is named for him, as is Baillon's shearwater and Baillonius bailloni (saffron toucanet).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ant ... is_Baillon
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Diderick
Diderick
Diderick's Cuckoo
The Diderik cuckoo gets its name from an onomatopoeic rendition of its persistent and loud deed-deed-deed-deed-er-ick call of the territorial male.
Source:
http://blog.dkeats.com/index.php/2015/1 ... dwatching/
Diderick's Cuckoo
The Diderik cuckoo gets its name from an onomatopoeic rendition of its persistent and loud deed-deed-deed-deed-er-ick call of the territorial male.
Source:
http://blog.dkeats.com/index.php/2015/1 ... dwatching/
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Jacobin
Jacobin
Jacobin Cuckoo
The species name jacobinus and the English name Jacobin refer to the pied plumage which resembles the black and white garments of monks belonging to the Dominican Order. In France Dominicans were known as "Jacobins".
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_cuckoo
Jacobin Cuckoo
The species name jacobinus and the English name Jacobin refer to the pied plumage which resembles the black and white garments of monks belonging to the Dominican Order. In France Dominicans were known as "Jacobins".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_cuckoo
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Klaas
Klaas's Cuckoo
The species was named by French explorer François Levaillant after his Khoikhoi servant. Le Vaillant was the only colonial biologist to name some bird species after local people.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas's_cuckoo
Klaas's Cuckoo
The species was named by French explorer François Levaillant after his Khoikhoi servant. Le Vaillant was the only colonial biologist to name some bird species after local people.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas's_cuckoo
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Hendrik Severinus Pel (1818 - 1876)
Pel's Fishing-owl
Pel was the Dutch governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana) c. 1840-1850. He was also an amateur naturalist and trained taxidermist, and acted as such for the Leiden museum to which he sent shipments of animal specimens.
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https://books.google.co.za/books?id=xnr ... el&f=false
Pel's Fishing-owl
Pel was the Dutch governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana) c. 1840-1850. He was also an amateur naturalist and trained taxidermist, and acted as such for the Leiden museum to which he sent shipments of animal specimens.
Source:
https://books.google.co.za/books?id=xnr ... el&f=false