James Bond (ornithologist)

The ornithologist James Bond

James Bond (born January 4, 1900 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † February 14, 1989 ibid ) was an American ornithologist , whose name inspired the author Ian Fleming to name his secret agent character James Bond .

Working as an ornithologist

James Bond was born in Philadelphia and worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in the same city as curator of the bird collection there. He was an expert in the field of Caribbean bird species and published the first edition of the book Birds of the West Indies in 1936 , which is still considered the standard work and is available in the fifth edition. Until the publication of A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies in 1998 (Herbert Raffaele et al. ), Bond's book was the only one that dealt exclusively with the Caribbean bird fauna. Bond received the Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica (1952) and the William Brewster Medal of the American Ornithological Union (1954) for his Magnum Opus Field guide to birds of the West Indies: a guide to all the species of birds known from the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles and Bahama Islands and the Leidy Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences (1975). Bond often worked with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee . He died at the age of 89 at Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, of a long-standing cancer .

In 1953, Bond married Mary Fanning Wickham Porcher Lewis, the widow of a famous Philadelphia lawyer . In 1966 she published the book How 007 Got His Name: Mrs James Bond .

It is reported that Bond ate all of the birds he studied at least once.

Dedication names

Ariomma bondi

Bond collected numerous fish in Grenada as early as the 1920s . Among them, two new species were discovered that are named after him: Ariomma bondi Fowler 1930 and Malacoctenus bondi Fowler 1930

In 1937 Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901-1984) described the new species Dicrurus bondi , which was later downgraded to a subspecies of the gray drongo ( Dicrurus leucophaeus bondi ). A subspecies of the Sabia thrush was named after Bond by Herbert Girton Deignan (1906–1968) in 1951 : Turdus fumigatus bondi . Kenneth Carroll Parkes (1922–2007) and Allan Robert Phillips (1914–1996) dedicated a subspecies of the barn owl to Bond in 1978: Tyto alba bondi .

Taxa described by Bond

Bond described - partly alone, partly in collaboration with Meyer de Schauensee - a genus as well as several species and subspecies: Xenoligea Bond, 1967; Zwergvireo , Vireo nelsoni Bond, 1936; Hornhokko , Pauxi unicornis (Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939); Gray-throated tapaculo , Scytalopus zimmeri Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940; Karibenvireo , Vireo caribaeus Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1942; Tolimataube , Leptotila conoveri Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1943; Yellow Warbler , Dendroica petechia babad Bond, 1927; Golden-fronted woodpecker , Melanerpes aurifrons insulanus (Bond, 1936); Yucatan woodpecker , Melanerpes pygmaeus tysoni (Bond, 1936); Brown head tyrant , Myiarchus tyrannulus insularum Bond, 1936; Brown-winged Guan , Ortalis vetula deschauenseei Bond, 1936; Rotnacken-Buschammer , Atlapetes rufinucha carrikeri Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Monitored Lammer , Myospiza humeralis tarijensis Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Black-billed rice cracker , Oryzoborus atrirostris gigantirostris Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Yellow-billed cardinal , Paroaria capitata fuscipes Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Salmon-beaked Altator , Saltator aurantiirostris hellmayri Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Meisenpitpit , Xenodacnis parina bella Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Meisenpitpit, Xenodacnis parina petersi Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939; Gray breast Buschtangare , Chlorospingus semifuscus living toni Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940; Fox panties , Cranioleuca vulpina foxi Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940; Barbed lazy bird , Nystalus striolatus torridus Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940; Brown- tailed Parakeet , Pyrrhura melanura chapmani Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940; Cinnamon-headed woodpecker , Celeus spectabilis exsul Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941; White-throated owl , Megascops albogularis remotus (Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941); Graubraun-Kleintyrann , Phaeomyias murina ignobilis Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941; Azara thicket panties , Synallaxis azarae samaipatae Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941; Blauflecktangare , Thraupis Sayaca boliviana Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941; Rustwing canastero , Thripophaga fusciceps dimorpha Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941; Zebra dwarf woodpecker , Picumnus cirratus thamnophiloides Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1942; Gray- crowned snapper tyrant , Myiophobus pulcher oblitus Bond, 1943; Black- capped Parakeet , Pyrrhura rupicola sandiae Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1944; Bronze olive tyrant , Pseudotriccus pelzelni peruvianus Bond, 1947; Tolmomyias viridiceps zimmeri Bond, 1947; Rough-billed tree climber , Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus solivagus Bond, 1950; Common pond rail , Gallinula chloropus barbadensis Bond, 1954; Brown-eared dwarf woodpecker , Picumnus sclateri porcullae Bond, 1954; Silberhakenschnabel , Diglossopis caerulescens media (Bond, 1955); Dark breast thicket panties , Synallaxis albigularis rodolphei Bond, 1956; Schmätzertangare , Calyptophilus tertius neibei Bond & A. Dod , 1977.

Bond as namesake

Ian Fleming, who worked as an avid birdwatcher, when he was in Jamaica lived, knew Bonds book and chose the name of its author for the protagonist of his story Casino Royale , because the name seemed to him "as ordinary as possible." Fleming wrote Bond's wife: "It struck me that this short, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and above all masculine name was exactly what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born." Fleming processed parts of the work in the short story For Your Eyes Only, a precise description of the appearance and courtship behavior of the doctor humming-bird ( Trochilus polytmus ).

In the twentieth film in the James Bond series ( Die Another Day ) , the secret agent James Bond in Cuba poses as an ornithologist and has the real James Bond's book with him.

Ian Fleming got to know the namesake of his fictional agent personally on February 5, 1964. The ornithologist visited him at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. As a gift, Ian Fleming gave the ornithologist his latest James Bond novel, which bore the dedication “ To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity ” (German: “ To the real James Bond from the thief of his identity ”).

This book sold for $ 84,000 in December 2008 .

Works

• Nesting of the Harpy Eagle (Thrasaetus Harpyia) , The Auk, Vol. 44, No. 4, 1927, pp. 562-563
• A New Golden Warbler from the Island of St. Lucia, BWI , The Auk, Vol. 44, No. 4, 1927, pp. 571-572
• A remarkable West Indian Goatsucker , The Auk, Vol. 45, No. 4, 1928, pp. 471-474
• The distribution and habits of the birds of the Republic of Haiti , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 80, 1928, pp. 483-521
• On the birds of Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Barbados, BWI , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 80, 1928, pp. 523-542
• The rediscovery of the St. Lucian Black Finch (Melanospiza richardsoni) , The Auk, Vol. 46, No. 4, 1929, pp. 523-526
• Notes on the Birds of St. Croix, USVI , The Auk, Vol. 47, No. 2, 1930, pp. 270-271
• Notes on Some Birds from St. Lucia, BW I , The Auk, Vol. 49, No. 4, 1932, p. 496
• The Cuban Nightjar (Antrostomus C. Cubanensis) in the Isle of Pines , The Auk, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1934, p. 523
• The Status of the Great Blue Heron in the West Indies , The Auk, Vol. 52, No. 1, 1935, pp. 76-77
• Lincoln's Sparrow (Melospiza L. Lincolnni) Nesting Near Bangor, Maine , The Auk, Vol. 52, No. 1, 1935, pp. 95-96
• The Name of the Antiguan Bullfinch , The Auk, Vol. 53, No. 2, 1936, p. 221
• Vireo Nelsoni Bond , The Auk, Vol. 53, No. 4, 1936, p. 458
• Resident birds of the Bay Islands of Spanish Honduras , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 88, 1936, pp. 353-364
• Willow Thrush in the Magdalen Islands , The Auk, Vol. 54, No. 1, 1937, p. 102
• New Records for Spanish Honduras , The Auk, Vol. 54, No. 1, 1937, p. 102
• Lincoln's Sparrow Nesting in Maine , The Auk, Vol. 54, No. 1, 1937, pp. 102-103
• The Cape May warbler in Maine , The Auk, Vol. 54, No. 3, 1937, pp. 306-308
• West Indian Orioles of the Genus Icterus , The Auk, Vol. 55, No. 3, 1938, p. 544
• Notes on birds from West Indies and other Caribbean islands , Notulae Naturae, Number 13, 1939, pp. 1-6
• Together with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, Descriptions of new birds from Bolivia. Part II - A new species of the genus Pauxi , Notulae Naturae, Number 29, 1939, pp. 1-3
• Some Birds from Montserrat, British West Indies , The Auk, Vol. 56, No. 2, 1939, pp. 193-195
• On a Specimen of Sporophila Cinnamomea (Lafresnaye) , The Auk, Vol. 56, No. 4, 1939, p. 481
• Check-list of Birds of the West Indies , Waverly Press, 1st edition, 1940
• Together with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: On some birds from Southern Colombia , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 92, 1940, pp. 153-169
• with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: Descriptions of new birds from Bolivia. Part III. - Mesomydi [Mesomyodi] . In: Notulae Naturae . No. 44 , 1940, pp. 1-4 .
• Bahama Pintail and Cinnamon Teal in Cuba , The Auk, Vol. 57, No. 3, 1940, p. 412
• Identity of United States Specimens of Fork-tailed Flycatcher , The Auk, Vol. 57, No. 3, 1940, pp. 418-419
• With Carroll Sargent Tyson: Birds of Mt.Desert island, Acadia national park, Maine , The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1941
• Together with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: Descriptions of new birds from Bolivia. Part IV , Notulae Naturae, Number 93, 1941, pp. 1-7
• Together with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: The birds of Bolivia , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1942
• Some West Indian Birds' Eggs , The Auk, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1941, pp. 109-110
• Nidification of the birds of Dominica, BWI , The Auk, Vol. 58, No. 3, 1941, pp. 364-375
• Together with George Vanderbilt, Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: Results of the Fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941): (Bahamas, Caribbean sea, Panama, Galápagos archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands) , Monograph (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), issue 6, 1941
• Additional Notes on West Indian Birds , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 94, 1942, pp. 89-106
• Notes on the Devil Owl , The Auk, Vol. 59, No. 2, 1942, pp. 308-309
• Together with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: A new species of dove of the genus Leptotila from Columbia , Notulae Naturae, Number 122, 1943, pp. 1–2
• Nidification of the passerine birds of Hispaniola , The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 55, no. 2, 1943, pp. 115-125
• A New flycatcher of the genus Myiophobus from Peru , Notulae Naturae, Number 127, 1943, pp. 1-2
• Together with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, A new race of Pyrrhura rupicola from Peru , Notulae Naturae, Number 138, 1944, pp. 1-2
• Notes on the Arrow-Headed Warbler , The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 56, No. 3, 1944, pp. 172-173
• Check-list of Birds of the West Indies , Waverly Press, 2nd edition, 1945
• Identity of Catesby's Tropic-Bird , The Auk, Vol. 62, No. 4, 1945, p. 660
• Field guide to birds of the West Indies: a guide to all the species of birds known from the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles and Bahama Islands , Macmillan, 1947
• A Second Specimen of Tangara Gouldi (Sclater) , The Auk, Vol. 64, No. 1, 1947, p. 128
• Origin of the bird fauna of the West Indies , The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 60, No. 4, 1948, pp. 207-229
• Identity of Trinidad Barn Owls , The Auk, Vol. 66, No. 1, 1949, p. 91
• Check-list of Birds of the West Indies , Waverly Press, 3rd edition, 1950
• Additional notes on West Indian birds , Notulae Naturae, Number 148, 1945, pp. 1-4
• A New Woodhewer, Xiphocolaptes, from Peru , The Auk, Vol. 67, no. 2, 1950, pp. 240-241
• Vireo Solitarius in Honduras , The Auk, Vol. 67, No. 3, 1950, p. 395
• A Large Sandpiper Clutch , The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 62, No. 2, 1950, p. 93
• Some Remarks on West Indian Icteridae , The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 62, No. 4, 1950, pp. 216-217
• First supplement to the check-list of birds of the West Indies , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1951
• Taxonomic notes on South American birds , The Auk, Vol 68, No. 4, 1951, pp. 527-529
• Birds of Turneffe and Northern Two Cays British Honduras , Notulae Naturae, Number 260, 1954, pp. 1-10
• Notes on peruvian Icteridae, Vireonidae and Parulidae , Notulae Naturae, Number 255, 1953, pp. 1-15
• A new race of Gallinula chloropus from Barbados , Notulae Naturae, Number 264, 1954, p. 1
• Notes on Peruvian Piciformes , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 106, 1954, pp. 45-61
• Notes on Peruvian Coerebidae and Thraupidae , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 107, 1955, pp. 35-55
• A New Race of Least Bittern from Peru , The Auk, Vol. 72, No. 2, 1955, pp. 208-209
• Additional notes on Peruvian birds. II. , Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 108, 1956, pp. 227-247
• Nesting of the Pygmy Palm-swift , The Auk, vol. 73, no. 3, 1956, p. 475
• Second supplement to the check-list of birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1957
• Notes on the White-breasted Thrasher , The Auk, Vol. 74, No. 2, 1957, pp. 259-260
• Third supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1958
• Fourth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1959
• Fifth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1960
• With Sidney Dillon Ripley: The Black Noddy at Los Roques, Venezuela , The Auk, Vol. 77, No. 4, 1960, pp. 473-474
• Sixth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1961
• Extinct and near extinct birds of the West Indies , Research report, Volume 4, International Committee for Bird Preservation. Pan American Section, 1961
• Seventh supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1962
• A new Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) from Newfoundland , Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. 75, No 2, 1962, pp 205-206
• Eighth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1963
• Ninth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1963
• White-tailed Kite in Nicaragua , The Auk, Vol. 81, No. 2, 1964, p. 230
• Tenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1965
• Eleventh supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1966
• Twelfth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1967
• Thirteenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1968
• Fourteenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1969
• Native birds of Mt.Desert Island and Acadia National Park , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1969
• Fifteenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1970
• Native and winter resident birds of Tobago , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1970
• Sixteenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1971
• Seventeenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1972
• Eighteenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1973
• Nineteenth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1974
• Twentieth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1976
• Twenty-first supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1977
• together with Annabelle Stockton Dod: A new race of Chat Tanager (Calyptophilus frugivorus) from the Dominican Republic , Notulae Naturae, Number 451, 1977, pp. 1-4
• Twenty-second supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1978
• Twenty-second supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1978
• Twenty-third supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1980
• Twenty-fourth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1982
• Twenty-fifth supplement to the Check-list of the Birds of the West Indies (1956) , Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ISBN 0-00-219191-1
2. ↑ The Auk, Vol 72, No. 1, 1955 The Seventy-Second Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union (English) Original article (PDF; 592 kB)
3. ^ New York Times James Bond, Ornithologist, 89; Fleming Adopted Name for 007 (English)
4. ↑ Kenneth Carroll Parkes, p. 719.
5. ^ Welt am Sonntag : James Bond and the Kakapo , NRW, page NRW 1, Frank Lorentz, November 11, 2012
6. ↑ Henry Weed Fowler, Plate 271 Figure 1.
7. ^ Henry Weed Fowler, Plate 275 Figure 2.
8. ^ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. B.
9. ^ Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 89, 1937, pp. 337–338 On a New Species of Drogon from Siam, p. 337 (English)
10. ↑ The Auk, Volume 68, Number 3, 1951, p. 379 A Substitute Name for a Thrush, Turdus, of the West Indies p. 379 (PDF; 148 kB)
11. ↑ Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. 47, Article 20. pp. 479-488 Two new Caribbean Subspecies of Barn Owl (Tyto Alba), with remarks on variation in other Populations, pp. 487 f. ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 474 kB) 
12. ^ ^{A b} Mary Wickham Bond: How 007 Got His Name. Collins, London 1966.
13. ↑ CommanderBond.net: Ian Fleming's 'You Only Live Twice' Sells For $ 84,000 At Auction
14. ↑ LiveAuctioneers.com: Lot 103, Ian Fleming sgd 1st British ed You Only Live Twice. ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Mary Wickham Bond: How 007 Got His Name. Collins, London 1966.
• Kenneth Carroll Parkes: In Memoriam: James Bond . In: The Auk . tape 106 , no. 4 , 1989, pp. 718–720 ( online [PDF; 197 kB ; accessed on March 30, 2016] full text with photo).
• Henry Weed Fowler: The Fishes Obtained by Mr. James Bond at Grenada, British West Indies, in 1929 . In: Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 82 , 1930, pp. 269-277 , JSTOR : 4064075 .

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