Edward Blyth

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Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth (born December 23, 1810 in London , † December 27, 1873 ibid) was an English zoologist and ornithologist . He is known as one of the founders of Indian zoology.

Live and act

Blyth was born in London on December 23, 1810 . In 1841 he traveled to India to become the curator of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal . He began by updating the catalogs of the museum and published in 1849 a catalog over the birds of the Asiatic Society ( Catalog of the Birds of the Asiatic Society ). He couldn't do much field work himself, but he described many species of birds that he got from Hume, Tickell, Swinhoe and others. He remained a curator until 1862, at which time his poor health forced him to return to England. In 1881 his work The Natural History of the Cranes was published.

Dedication names

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte honored him in 1854 with the generic name Blythipicus , a name that is composed of his name and the Latin Picus for woodpecker . With a subspecies of Schlichtprinie ( Prinia inornata blythi ( Bonaparte , 1850)) he had recognized him already 1850th The Somali star ( Onychognathus blythii ) was dedicated to him by Ernst Hartert in 1859 . Alfred Russel Wallace dedicated it in 1864 to Psittaculirostris desmarestii blythii , a subspecies of the marigold parrot , as this pointed out to him the differences to the species already described. In 1882, Major John Biddulph named a subspecies of the white- browedimp , which is now known as Carpodacus thura blythi , in his honor. The subspecies Cyornis rufigastra blythi of the mangrove blue flycatcher was introduced by Christian Gottfried Giebel in 1875 as a synonym for Cyornis simplex Blyth in 1870. His name can also be found in the name of a subspecies of the gray-headed starfish ( Sturnia malabarica blythii ( Jerdon , 1845)). In 1870 Thomas Caverhill Jerdon paid tribute to him again in the name of Blythtragopan ( Tragopan blythii ( Jerdon , 1870)). Jules Verreaux recognized it in 1871 in the subspecies Trochalopteron affine blythii of the black- headed jay .

Moreover Blyth came in the definition Phoenicopterus blythi Bonaparte 1857 (corresponding to the lesser flamingo ( Phoeniconaias minor )), Alcippe poioicephala blythi Collin & Hartert 1927 (corresponding to the Graukopfalcippe ( Alcippe poioicephala Karenni )), Muscicapa blythi Rothschild , 1921 (corresponding to the Elsterschnäpper ( ficedula westerwelle Manni collini )), Phaiopicos blythii Malherbe , 1849 (corresponding to the Rufous Woodpecker ( Micropternus brachyurus )), Gorsachius melanolophus blythi Hachisuka 1926 (corresponding to nominate the shaft heron ( Gorsachius melanolophus )) and Sylvia Curruca blythi Ticehurst & Whistler , 1933 (corresponding to the nominate the Klappergrasmücke ( Sylvia curruca )) honor.

Furthermore, described in 1870 Francis Day to the mountain catfish belonging kind Myersglanis blythii , 1876 William Theobald with Mocoa blythii a synonym of the skinks belonging subspecies Scincella ladacensis himalayana , 1867 Franz Steindachner with Euprepes blythi a synonym of belonging to the skinks kind Asymblepharus Himalayanus , 1859 Robert Fisher Tomes the little mouse- eared mouse ( Myotis blythii ), 1853 the species Rhinophis blythii belonging to the tails and 1920 George Albert Boulenger the species Limnonectes blythii belonging to the frogs .

  • Carpodacus thura blythi illustrated by John Gerrard Keulemans

  • Sturnia malabarica blythii occasionally as a separate species Sturnia blythii out

  • Blythtragopan illustrated by Joseph Wolf

  • Trochalopteron affine blythii illustrated by John Gould

Works

  • The Magazine of Natural History 1835 to 1837
  • Notes relating chiefly to the Birds of India . In: The Ibis (=  new series ). tape 6 , no. 22 , 1870, p. 157-176 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

literature

  • John F. Riddick: The History of British India: A Chronology . Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-313-32280-8 ( books.google.de ).
  • Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte : Conspectus generum avium . tape 1 . EJ Brill, Leiden 1850 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte: Conspectus Volucrum Zygodactylorum . In: Ateneo Italiano . tape 2 , 1854, p. 116-129 ( books.google.de ).
  • Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte: Conspectus generum avium . tape 2 . EJ Brill, Leiden 1857 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).
  • John Biddulph: On birds of Gilgit . In: The Ibis (=  4 ). tape 6 , no. 20 , 1882, p. 266-290 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ernst Hartert: Monographic overview of the glossy starlings (Lamprotornithinae) Africa's . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 7 , no. 1 , 1859, p. 1-36 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Albert Collin, Ernst Hartert: Nomina Mutanda . In: Novitates Zoologicae . tape 34 , 1927, pp. 50-52 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Christian Gottfried Giebel: Thesaurus ornithologiae: Repertory of the entire ornithological literature and nomenclator of all genera and species of birds, including synonyms and geographical distribution . tape 2 . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1875 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Alfred Russel Wallace: On the Parrots of the Malayan Region, with Remarks on Their Habits, Distribution, and Affinities, and the Descriptions of Two New Species. In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1864 . 1864, p. 272-295 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Thomas Caverhill Jerdon: Illustrations of Indian ornithology: containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . PR Hunt, American Mission Press, Madras 1847 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Thomas Caverhill Jerdon: Notes on new species of Birds from North-Eastern Frontier of India . In: Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1870, p. 59-61 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jules Verreaux: Description of the oiseaux nouveaux ou incomplètement connus collectés par M. l'Abbe Armand David pendant son voayage dans le Thibet Oriental et la partie adjacente de la Chine . In: Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle . tape 7 , 1871, p. 25-66 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild: On a collection of birds from West-Central and North-Western Yunnan . In: Novitates Zoologicae . tape 34 , 1921, pp. 14-67 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Alfred Malherbe: Description de quelques nouvelles espèces de Picinées (Picus, Linn.) . In: Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (=  2 ). tape 1 , 1849, p. 529-544 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Masa Uji Hachisuka: A Revision of the Genus Gorsachius. In: The Ibis . tape 68 , no. 3 , 1926, pp. 585-592 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1926.tb05627.x .
  • Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, Hugh Whistler: What is Curruca affinis Blyth? In: The Ibis . tape 75 , no. 3 , 1933, pp. 554-556 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1933.tb03350.x .
  • Francis Day: Remarks on some of the Fishes in the Calcutta Museum . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1864 . 1870, p. 511-531 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Franz Steindachner: Journey of the Austrian frigate Novara around the earth: in the years 1857, 1858, 1859 under the orders of Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair (=  zoological part: reptiles ). KK Hof- u. State Dr. ; in Comm. at Gerold, Vienna 1867 ( digital.slub-dresden.de ).
  • William Theobald: Descriptive catalog of the reptiles of British India . Thacker, Spink, Calcutta 1876 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Robert Fisher Tomes: Description of four undescribed species of bats . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . tape 25 , 1857, pp. 50-54 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Edward Frederic Kelaart: Description of new or little-known species of reptiles collected in Ceylon . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History (=  2 ). tape 13 , 1853, pp. 25-30 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • George Albert Boulenger: A Monograph of the South Asian, Papuan, Melanesian and Australien Frogs of the Genus Rana . In: Records of the Indian Museum . tape 20 , 1920, p. 1-226 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1854), p. 124.
  2. ^ Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1850), p. 281.
  3. ↑ Ernst Hartert, p. 32.
  4. ^ Alfred Russel Wallace, p. 285.
  5. ^ John Biddulph, pp. 283-284, Plate IX.
  6. ↑ Christian Gottfried Giebel, p. 631.
  7. ^ Edward Blyth (1870), p. 165.
  8. ↑ Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (1845 (1847)), plate 22 & text.
  9. ^ Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (1870), p. 60.
  10. ↑ Jules Verreaux, p. 37.
  11. ^ Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1857), p. 146.
  12. ↑ Albert Collin et al. a., p. 50.
  13. ^ Lionel Walter Rothschild, p. 48.
  14. ↑ Alfred Malherbe, p. 534.
  15. ^ Masa Uji Hachisuka, p. 591.
  16. ^ Claud Buchanan Ticehurst et al. a., p. 556.
  17. ^ Francis Day, p. 525.
  18. ^ William Theobald, p. 59.
  19. ^ Franz Steindachner, p. 46.
  20. ^ Robert Fisher Tomes, p. 53.
  21. ^ Edward Frederic Kelaart, p. 26.
  22. ↑ George Albert Boulenger, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Blyth, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1873
Place of death London