Edward Arthur Butler

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Edward Arthur Butler (born July 4, 1843 in Warwickshire , † April 16, 1916 in Stokesby ) was a British officer and ornithologist .

Life

Butler was the son of Charles Lennox Butler and Eliza Holland and grandson of James Butler, the 13th Lord of Dunboyne (1780-1850). He studied at Eton . In 1864, at the age of 21, he joined the 83rd Regiment of the British Army as an ensign . He later moved to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles . In 1884 he retired from the army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel .

During the three years that he served in Gibraltar , he met Leonard Howard Loyd Irby (1836–1905) who was the first to give him the opportunity to collect birds. This was followed by eleven years in India , where he first met Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912), with whom he had a deep love for ornithology. The outbreak of the First Boer War finally brought him to South Africa . Here he met the ornithologists Major Henry Wemyss Feilden (1838-1921) and Captain Savil Gray Reid (1845-1915), with whom he published together. After the peace treaty, his regiment was moved home. Butler was first stationed in Alderney and finally in Belfast , where he also retired from the service.

In 1872 he married Clara Maria Francis, with whom he had three children. Butler was an avid taxidermist and bird collector. His son Arthur Lennox Butler (1873-1939) was also an ornithologist.

His publications on Indian birds appeared a. a. in Stray Feather and Bombay Gazareer . He published his observations from his time in Africa in The Zoologist and The Ibis .

Dedication names

In 1878, Hume dedicated the scientific epithet Strix butleri to him for the Owl . The owl was called Asio butleri in the first description and only later added to the genus Strix . In the reason for the name, Hume wrote:

"This skin I owe to my indefatigable and devoted coadjutor, Captain EA Butler, after whom I have named it, and to whom I must not neglect to express my many obligations. He procured it for me through one of his friends Mr. Nash, I believe from Omara, on the Mekran Coast. (German: I owe this brat to my tireless and devoted assistant, Captain EA Butler, after whom I named him and to whom I do not want to neglect to express my multiple obligations. He got it for me through one of his friends, Mr. Nash, I believe Omara on the Makran coast . "

George Ernest Shelley (1840-1910) dedicated Anthus Butleri to him in 1882 , who later turned out to be the yellow-breasted pipit ( Anthus chloris ) described by Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1842 .

"On peace being proclaimed with the Boers, Major EA Butler, Major HW Feilden and Captain Savile Reid were quatered for about nine months at Newcastle, Natal. Here they not only made notes referring to over 230 species, which they intend shortly to publish. Meanwhile they have permitted me to describe here the new species brought home. There I propose to name Anthus butleri (a very interesting yellow-breasted Pipit) .... (German: After peace with the Boers was proclaimed, Major EA Butler, Major HW Feilden and Captain Savile Reid stayed for about nine months Newcastle , Natal, where they not only made notes on more than 230 species that they plan to publish soon, but have since allowed me to describe the new species they have brought home. Therefore I propose the name Anthus butleri ( for a very interesting yellow-breasted beeper) before .... "

Works

  • A catalog of the birds of Sind, Cutch, Káthiáwár, North Gujarát, and Mount Aboo, including every species known to occur in that tract of country up to date, with references showing where each species is described, and locality marking its distribution so far as is known at present in the tract of country to which the catalog refers, by Capt. EA Butle . Government Central press, Bombay 1879.
  • Edward Arthur Butler, Henry Wemyss Feilden, Savil Gray Reid: On the Variations in Plumage of Saxicola monticola, as observed in Natal . In: The Ibis . tape 25 , no. 3 , 1883, p. 331-337 .

literature

  • Witmer Stone : Edward Arthur Butler . In: The Auk . tape 34 , no. 1 , 1930, p. 114 ( online [PDF; 379 kB ; accessed on August 13, 2011]).
  • Arthur Lennox Butler: Edward Arthur Butler . In: The Ibis . tape 4 , 1916, pp. 644-645 ( online [accessed August 13, 2011]).
  • Allan Octavian Hume: Nobelties - Asio butleri, Sp. Nov.? In: The Auk . tape 7 , 1878, p. 316-318 ( online [accessed August 13, 2011]).
  • George Ernest Shelley: On some ne species of Birds from south Africa . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 1882, p. 336–337 ( online [accessed August 13, 2011]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Witmer Stone, p. 114
  2. ↑ a b c d Arthur Lennox Butler, p. 644
  3. ↑ a b Arthur Lennox Butler, p. 645
  4. ^ Allan Octavian Hume, p. 316
  5. ↑ George Ernest Shelley, p. 336
personal data
SURNAME Butler, Edward Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Warwickshire
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1916
Place of death Stokesby