The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson

Author:Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson [Beolens, Bo & Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nature, Birdwatching Guides, Reference, Dictionaries
ISBN: 9781472905741
Google: En4wBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00MCK0W6I
Publisher: Christopher Helm
Published: 2014-08-27T14:00:00+00:00

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Labat

Labat’s Conure Aratinga labati Labat, 1724 EXTINCT

[Alt. Guadeloupe Parakeet]

Jean Baptiste Labat (1663–1738) was a French missionary, although British 17th-century biographers describe him as a pirate because he defended Guadeloupe against the English. He was sent by his order (the Dominicans) to the West Indies (1693), first to Martinique and then to Guadeloupe. He performed valuable botanical research and wrote extensively about his travels. His account of a hunting expedition (1696) described how a party of six men captured over 200 Black-capped Petrels Pterodroma hasitata, which they hauled from their burrows in Guadeloupe. Apparently he also decimated the flamingo colony on Aves Island (1705). There are no existing specimens of the conure that bears his name, so its taxonomy may never be fully elucidated and its status as a separate species is hypothetical.

Labrador

Ornate Tinamou ssp. Nothoprocta ornata labradori J. Cabot, 1997

José Sánchez Labrador (1717–1798) was a jesuit missionary and naturalist. He was a prolific author of catholic doctrine, anthropology, the Guarani language and agriculture as well as natural history. He entered the ‘Society of Jesus’ (1732) and was sent to South America two years later (1734) where he studied theology at the University of Córdoba (1734–1739). He continued to study and also began to teach theology in Buenos Aires as well as at several missions and eventually to Indians (1760–1767) before being expelled and taking up residence in Ravenna, Italy, where he wrote of his experiences of the people and natural history of South America. He wrote the four-volume Natural Paraguay (1771).

Lady Amherst

Lady Amherst’s Pheasant Chrysolophus amherstiae Leadbeater, 1829

(See Amherst, Lady)

Lady MacGregor

Lady MacGregor’s Bowerbird Amblyornis macgregoriae De Vis, 1890

(See MacGregor, M.)

Lady Ross

Lady Ross’s Turaco Musophaga rossae Gould, 1852

(See Ross, E.)

Laenen

Firecrest ssp. Regulus ignicapilla laeneni van Marle & Voous, 1949 NCR

[NUI Regulus ignicapilla balearicus]

Blue-naped Mousebird ssp. Urocolius macrourus laeneni Niethammer, 1955

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler ssp. Iduna pallida laeneni Niethammer, 1955

Grey-headed Sparrow ssp. Passer griseus laeneni Niethammer, 1955

Yellow-bellied Eremomela ssp. Eremomela icteropygialis laeneni Niethammer, 1955 NCR

[JS Eremomela icteropygialis alexanderi]

J. R. Laenen (DNF) was a Belgian collector, zoologist and explorer. He collected the firecrest (named after both him and his wife) while making a zoological survey in Algeria (1949), the sparrow, eromomela and warbler at Lake Chad (1954) and the mousebird in Niger (1955). Laenen and Niethammer (q.v.) wrote the article ‘Hivernage au Sahara’ (1954) and collected together in the Sudan.

La Farge

Scarlet-naped Myzomela Myzomela lafargei Pucheran, 1853

[Alt. Red-capped Myzomela]

Ensign Antoine Auguste Thérèse Pavin de la Farge (1812–1839) was on board the exploration vessel La Zélée in the Pacific (1837–1839). He died at sea aged just 27.

Lafayette

Lafayette’s Junglefowl Gallus lafayetii Lesson, 1831

[Alt. Sri Lanka Junglefowl]

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Mothier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), was a French nobleman and cavalry officer. He inherited a large fortune but, coming from a long military line, he studied at the military academy in Versailles and became a cavalry captain aged 16 (1773). He bought a ship (1777) and left for America to fight in the revolution against the British. He was appointed a Major-General and was assigned to the staff of George Washington, achieving several notable victories.

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