Daniel Giraud Elliot

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Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915)
Color print “Hybrid pheasant” from A Monograph of the Phasianidae

Daniel Giraud Elliot (born March 7, 1835 in New York City , † December 22, 1915 there ) was an American zoologist.

Life

Daniel Elliot was both a co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and one of the founders of the American Ornithologists' Union . He worked as a curator for zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . Elliot used his fortune to publish a series of costly color prints of birds and other animals. He wrote the lyrics himself. For the pictures, however, he commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit , both of whom had already worked for John Gould . The books included A Monograph of the Phasianidae (Family of the Pheasants) (1870–1872), A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise (1873), A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats (1878), and Review of the Primates (1913).

The National Academy of Sciences awards the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal for meritorious work in the field of zoology or paleontology published within three to five years. In 1875 he was accepted into the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1895 Elliot was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Dedication names

John Cassin honored him in 1863 in the Elliot woodpecker ( Mesopicos elliotii ), Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1870 in the Elliotliest ( Tanysiptera ellioti ), and Jules Verreaux in 1871 in the Elliothähling ( Trochalopteron elliotii ). Robert Swinhoe named Elliot Pheasant ( Syrmaticus ellioti ) in his honor in 1872 . Émile Oustalet dedicated the green-headed pitta ( Pitta elliotii ) to him in 1874 . Robert Ridgway described the Elliotelfe ( Atthis ellioti ) in his honor in 1878 . In addition, his name can be found in the subspecies of the violet- crowned amazilie ( Amazilia violiceps ellioti ( von Berlepsch , 1889)) and the Theklalerche ( Galerida theklae ellioti Hartert, E , 1897). The subspecies of the turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ellioti ) described by George Burritt Sennett in 1892 applies now synonymous with Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett , 1879. the by Tommaso Salvadori described 1879 Art porphyrio ellioti is synonymous with the purple gallinule subspecies porphyrio porphyrio samoensis Peale , 1848. the by Modest Nikolaevich Bogdanov described species (1841-1888) Pterocles ellioti is a synonym for today drops Sandgrouse ( Pterocles senegallus ( Linnaeus considered, 1771)). The taxidermist Edwin Ward described the species Epimachus ellioti in 1873 , which today is regarded as a hybrid between the broad-tailed paradise hop ( Epimachus fastuosus ) and the fan paradise ( Astrapia nigra ).

The Luvua colobus monkey subspecies ( Piliocolobus foai ellioti Dollman , 1909) is probably a hybrid of the Oustalet colobus monkey and the Semliki colobus monkey .

  • Green-headed pitta ( Pitta elliotii ) illustrated as part of the first description

  • Elliot's Pheasant ( Syrmaticus ellioti )

  • Elliotliest ( Tanysiptera ellioti )

  • Meleagris gallopavo ellioti illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton

  • Epimachus ellioti

Publications (selection)

  • in Henri Milne Edwards: Rapport sur quelques acquisitions nouvelles faites par la Galerie ornithologique du muséum adressé a l'assemblée des professeurs-adminisrtrateurs, le 17 Octobre 1865 . In: Nouvelles Archives du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle De Paris . tape 1 , 1865, p. 75-78 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Description of two new species of Hummingbirds belonging to the Genera Eupherusa and Cyanomyia . 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 (=  4 ). tape 8 , no. 46 , 1871, pp. 266-267 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Osbert Salvin: On two Species of Trochilidae of the Gebnus Lophornis . In: The Ibis (=  3 ). tape 2 , no. 11 , 1873, p. 279-280 ( biodiversity library ).
  • Notes on the Trochilidae. The Genera Lampropygia . In: Ibis (=  3 ). tape 6 , no. 21 , 1876, p. 54-60 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Description d'un Eriocnemis nouveau Oiseau-Mouche provenant de Bolivia . In: Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France . tape 1 , 1876, p. 227 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Trochilidae. The genus of Thaumatias . In: The Ibis (=  4 ). tape 2 , no. 5 , 1878, p. 35-53 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • A classification and synopsis of the Trochilidae . Collins Printer, Philadelphia 1878 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Description of a New Species of Hummingbird of the Genus Agyrtria . In: The Auk . tape 58 , no. 3 , 1888, p. 263–264 (English, sora.unm.edu [PDF; 77 kB ]).

literature

  • Frank Michler Chapman : Daniel Giraud Elliot . In: The Auk . tape 34 , no. 1 , 1917, p. 1–10 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 529 kB ]).
  • John Cassin: Notes on PICIDAE, with descriptions of new and little known species . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 15 , 1863, p. 194-204 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe: On a new Kingfisher belonging to the Genus Tanysiptera . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1869 . 1869, p. 630-631 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jules Verreaux: Note sur les nouvelles espèces d'Oiseaux recueillis par M. l'abbé Armand David dans les montagnes du Thibet chinois . In: Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle . tape 6 , 1870, p. 33-40 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Robert Swinhoe: Descriptions of two new Pheasants and a new Garrulax from Ningpo, China . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1872 . 1872, p. 550-554 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Edwin Ward: Descriptions of a new Bird of Paradise of the genus Epimachus . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1873 . 1873, p. 742-743 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Émile Oustalet: Description d'une nouvelle espèce de brève . In: Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle . tape 10 , 1874, p. 101-105 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Robert Ridgway: On a new humming bird (Atthis ellioti) from Guatemala . In: Proceedings of the United States National Museum . tape 1 , 1878, p. 8-10 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Tommaso Salvadori: Di alcune specie del genre Porphyrio Briss . In: Atti della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino . tape 14 , 1879, p. 1165-1170 .
  • Modest Nikolaevich Bogdanov: Comments on the group of pteroclids . In: Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg (=  3 ). tape 27 , 1881, p. 164-168 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch: Notes on some Neotropical birds belonging to the United States National Museum . In: Proceedings of the United States National Museum . tape 11 , 1888, p. 559-556 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • George Burritt Sennett: Description of a New Turkey . In: The Auk . tape 9 , no. 2 , 1892, p. 167–169 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 206 kB ]).
  • Ernst Hartert: Notes on Palaearctic birds and allied forms . In: Novitates Zoologicae . tape 4 , 1897, p. 131-147 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Guy Dollman: Two new species of Colobus from Central Africa, collected by Mr. R. Grauer . 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 (=  8 ). tape 4 , no. 54 , 1909, pp. 474-476 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Daniel Giraud Elliot  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ John Cassin (1863), p. 197.
  3. ^ Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1870 (1869)), p. 630.
  4. ↑ Jules Verreaux (1871 (1870)), p. 36.
  5. ^ Robert Swinhoe (1872), p. 550.
  6. ↑ Émile Oustalet (1874), p. 101, plate 2.
  7. ^ Robert Ridgway (1878), p. 8, Figure 9.
  8. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch (1889), p. 562.
  9. ↑ Ernst Hartert (1897), p. 144.
  10. ↑ George Burritt Sennett (1889), p. 167.
  11. ^ Tommaso Salvadori (1879), p. 1168.
  12. ↑ Modest Nikolaevich Bogdanow (1881), p. 167.
  13. ^ Edwin Ward (1863), p. 743.
  14. ↑ Guy Dollman (1909), p. 475.
personal data
SURNAME Elliot, Daniel Giraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1915
Place of death New York City