John David Digues La Touche

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John David Digues La Touche (born June 5, 1861 in Tours ; † May 6, 1935 at sea when returning to Ireland from Mallorca ) was a French - Irish ornithologist and tax officer.

Live and act

Blauammer illustrated by Henrik Grönvold (1858–1940) as part of La Touche's publication

His father Charles Jean Digues La Touche (1811-1884) was born in Dublin and his mother Marie Appoline nee. de Trouchier of French origin. They married on June 13, 1860 in Tours. The father converted to Catholicism and moved to Tours in 1844. In John David Digue's La Touche birth entry in Tours, his name is Jean David La Touche . John David Digues La Touche married Caroline Amanda born in 1896. Focken (? -1945) in Shantou , to which he dedicated Brachypteryx leucophris carolinae in 1898 . She had eight children. A daughter, Jeanne La Touche (1907-1921), after which he 1921 joannae Zosterops palpebrosus , a synonym for progress Brillenvogel subtype Zosterops palpebrosus siamensis Blyth , 1867, and 1922 Heteroxenicus joannae , a synonym for the blackthroat ( Calliope obscura ( Berezowksi & Bianchi , 1891)), died of measles at the age of 14 . In 1921 he dedicated the red-tailed siva subspecies ( Minla ignotincta mariae ) to his daughter Mary (1907–1973) , his youngest daughter Elizabeth (1912–1988) he dedicated the black- browed broad-throat subspecies ( Serilophus lunatus elisabethae ) in 1921 and the gray-throated parrot in 1921 ( Suthora alphonsiana elisabethae ). There were also the children Charlotte (1899–1906), John (1909–1984), Robert (1902–1939), David (1904–1990), Charles (1904–1990).

John David Digues La Touche was educated at Downside Abbey , and at the age of twenty-one he was serving for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, which was then the most important tax authority in the Chinese state. For this he worked until his retirement in June 1921. In retirement he moved to Ireland, where he bought a residence in the townland of Kiltimon in County Wicklow . In the winter of 1934 he traveled to Mallorca and died on his return journey at sea.

La Touche was interested in natural history in general , but was particularly passionate about ornithology. During his time in China he was passionate about bird watching and collecting. His first publication in 1887 was on Fuzhou birds . In 1892 a lengthy treatise on the bird world in the neighborhood of Fuzhou and Shantou followed . Together with Charles Boughey Rickett, he published in 1905 on the birds breeding in Fujian Province . A year later there was a report on the birds of Zhenjiang on the lower Yangtze River . With William Robert Ogilvie-Grant he collaborated in 1907 on a publication on the avifauna on Formosa . During the next few years of the war, his writing activities were limited to a few short articles on Chinese birds. It was not until 1920 that another lengthy treatise on the bird world in the northeast of the Zhili Province followed, followed in 1922 on the birds from the Hubei Province . In 1923 he began a lengthy treatise on the birds in southeast Yunnan Province . His greatest work was certainly the two volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China .

It was La Touche who rediscovered the blue bunting ( Junco siemsseni Martens, GH , 1906) in 1913 and provided a female for illustration for the first time. His contributions to the migration of birds on Shaweishan Island in 1911 and Qinhuangdao in 1914 provided the first reliable data from these stations on the subject. His valuable Chinese bird collection went to the Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology after the completion of his Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China .

Memberships

In 1921 he was elected a corresponding fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). Since 1892 he was an elected member of the British Ornithologists' Union and since 1898 a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London .

First descriptions by John David Digues La Touche

La Touche has described some species and subspecies that were new to science.

species

The species and subspecies include chronological and a .:

Subspecies

The subspecies include chronological and a .:

  • Brown- headed falcon ( Fulvetta cinereiceps guttaticollis ( La Touche , 1897))
  • Meisenyuhina ( Yuhina nigrimenta pallida La Touche , 1897)
  • Silver- rimmed warbler ( Seicercus affinis intermedius ( La Touche , 1898))
  • Pygmy Flywings ( Brachypteryx leucophris carolinae La Touche , 1898)
  • Rust-flanked Kleiber ( Sitta nagaensis montium La Touche , 1899)
  • Brown Bullfinch ( Pyrrhula nipalensis ricketti La Touche , 1905)
  • Red- forehead sibia ( Actinodura egertoni ripponi Ogilvie-Grant & La Touche , 1907)
  • Pallid Tern ( Riparia diluta fohkienensis ( La Touche , 1908))
  • Burmese jay ( Liocichla ripponi wellsi ( La Touche , 1921))
  • Gray-throated bush timalia ( Stachyris nigriceps yunnanensis La Touche , 1921)
  • Gray-throated parrot ( Sinosuthora alphonsiana yunnanensis ( La Touche , 1921))
  • Gray-headed woodpecker ( Dendrocopos canicapillus obscurus ( La Touche , 1921))
  • Gray-cheeked flycatcher ( Cyornis poliogenys laurentei ( La Touche , 1921))
  • Cobalt blue flycatcher ( Niltava grandis griseiventris La Touche , 1921)
  • Red-necked saber ( Pomatorhinus ruficollis laurentei La Touche , 1921)
  • Red-tailed Siva ( Minla ignotincta mariae La Touche , 1921)
  • Black- browed wide-throat ( Serilophus lunatus elisabethae La Touche , 1921)
  • Stripe Breast Earth Timalia ( Pellorneum ruficeps vividum La Touche , 1921)
  • White-footed Bush Warbler ( Hemitesia pallidipes laurentei La Touche , 1921)
  • White-throated spider-hunter ( Arachnothera longirostra sordida La Touche , 1921)
  • Mountain Great Tit ( Parus monticolus yunnanensis La Touche , 1922)
  • Bergprinie ( Prinia crinigera parvirostris ( La Touche , 1922))
  • Brown -headed parrot ( Sinosuthora webbiana elisabethae La Touche , 1922)
  • China Rotschnabelbülbül ( Hypsipetes leucocephalus sinensis ( La Touche , 1922))
  • Golden-browed parrot ( Suthora verreauxi pallida ( La Touche , 1922))
  • Gray-throated Mennigvogel ( Pericrocotus solaris montpellieri La Touche , 1922)
  • Malay prinie ( Prinia polychroa bangsi ( La Touche , 1922))
  • Red- headed warbler ( Seicercus castaniceps laurentei ( La Touche , 1922))
  • Red- fronted tailor's bird ( Orthotomus sutorius inexpectatus La Touche , 1922)
  • Hunting Pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus rothschildi La Touche , 1922)
  • White-tailed warbler ( Seicercus ogilviegranti disturbans ( La Touche , 1922))
  • David's Fulvetta ( Alcippe davidi schaefferi La Touche , 1923)
  • Red-necked saber ( Pomatorhinus ruficollis albipectus La Touche , 1923)
  • Silver-eared sunbird ( Leiothrix argentauris ricketti (La Touche, 1923))
  • Coal Tit ( Periparus ater kuatunensis La Touche , 1923)
  • Gray- headed woodpecker ( Dendrocopos canicapillus nagamichii ( La Touche , 1932))

Dedication names

Outram Bangs (1863-1932) honored him in 1931 in the genus Latoucheornis and in 1929 in the Bianchilaubsänger subspecies ( Seicercus valentini latouchei ). In 1891 Henry Horrocks Slater named the fork-tailed nectar bird ( Aethopyga latouchii ) in his honor. Charles Rickett Boughey dedicated to him in 1900 the Fox scops owl subtype ( Otus spilocephalus latouchi )., Erwin Stresemann in 1929 the Streifenbabax subtype ( Garrulax lanceolatus latouchei ), Herbert Deignan in 1949, the Kotilangbülbül subtype ( Pycnonotus aurigaster latouchei ) and Norman Boyd Kinnear introduced the great caterpillar shrike subspecies ( Tephrodornis virgatus latouchei ) in 1925 .

The turquoise rack subspecies ( Eurystomus orientalis latouchei ) described by Andrew Allison (1879-1960) in 1946 is a synonym of Eurystomus orientalis cyanocollis Vieillot , 1819, that of Father Frédéric Courtois (1860-1928) in 1927 published whooper swan subspecies ( Cygnus (musicus) latouchei ) around a synonym of the nominate form and in the blue alder Monticola solitaria latouchei described by Kuroda Nagamichi in 1922 around a synonym for Monticola solitarius philippensis ( Statius Müller , 1776).

Oldfield Thomas dedicated the La Touche bulldog bat ( Tadarida latouchei ) to him in 1920 and the La Touche mole ( Mogera latouchei ) in 1907 , George Albert Boulenger in 1899 the frog species Hylarana latouchii and the adder species Opisthotropis latouchii .

  • Hylarana latouchii illustrated by Joseph Smit (1836–1929) as part of the first description (Figure 1)

  • Opisthotropis latouchii illustrated by Smit (Figure 1)

Publications (selection)

  • Letter on Mr. FW Styan's article on a collection of birds made by me in Foocow . In: The Ibis (=  5 ). tape 5 , no. 20 , 1887, p. 469-470 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • On birds collected or observed in the Vicinity of Foochow and Swatow in South-eastern China . In: The Ibis (=  6 ). tape 4 , no. 25 , 1892, pp. 400-430 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Charles Boughey Rickett: Messrs CB Rickett and JD La Touche sent for exhibition the following apparently new species of birds of China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 6 , no. 45 , 1897, pp. 50 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with William Robert Ogilvie-Grant: Mr. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited on behalf of Mr. JD La Touche an example of a new species of Short wings . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 8 , no. 56 , 1898, pp. 9-10 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Birds of North-West Fohkien . In: The Ibis (=  7 ). tape 5 , no. 18 , 1899, pp. 169-210 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Birds of North-West Fohkien . In: The Ibis (=  7 ). tape 5 , no. 19 , 1899, pp. 400-431 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Birds of North-West Fohkien . In: The Ibis (=  7 ). tape 6 , no. 21 , 1900, p. 34-51 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Charles Boughey Rickett: Further notes on the Nesting of the Birds in the province of Fokien, SE China . In: The Ibis (=  8 ). tape 5 , no. 17 , 1905, pp. 25-67 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche forwarded the following descriptions of two new birds from China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 16 , no. 118 , 1905, pp. 21 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Field-Notes on the Birds of Chinkiang, Lower Yangtse Baasin . In: The Ibis (=  8 ). tape 6 , no. 23 , 1906, pp. 427-450 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Field-Notes on the Birds of Chinkiang, Lower Yangtse Baasin - Part II . In: The Ibis (=  8 ). tape 6 , no. 24 , 1906, pp. 617-659 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Field-Notes on the Birds of Chinkiang, Lower Yangtse Baasin - Part II . In: The Ibis (=  9 ). tape 1 , no. 1 , 1907, p. 1-30 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche sent the description of a new Flycatcher from Fohkien, China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 21 , no. 136 , 1907, pp. 18 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Field-Notes on the Birds of Chinkiang, Lower Yangtse Basia Part III . In: The Ibis (=  9 ). tape 1 , no. 1 , 1907, p. 1-30 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with William Robert Ogilvie-Grant: On the Birds of the Island of Formosa . In: The Ibis (=  9 ). tape 1 , no. 1 , 1907, p. 151-198 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with William Robert Ogilvie-Grant: On the Birds of the Island of Formosa . In: The Ibis (=  9 ). tape 1 , no. 2 , 1907, p. 254-279 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche forwarded the following descriptions of a new species of Sand-Martin from China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 23 , no. 145 , 1908, pp. 17 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Charles Boughey Rickett: A List of the species of birds collected and observed in the Island of Shaweishan . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 29 , no. 180 , 1911, pp. 124-160 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • On behalf of Mr. JD La Touche, Mr. Oglive-Grant exhibited and described a new species of Reed-Warbler which Mr. La Touche proposed to call . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 31 , no. 182 , 1912, pp. 10-11 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Further Notes on the Birds of China . In: The Ibis (=  10 ). tape 1 , no. 2 , 1913, pp. 263-283 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • The Spring Migration at Chinwangtao in North-East Chihili . In: The Ibis (=  10 ). tape 2 , no. 4 , 1914, pp. 560-586 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Ernst Hartert: Dr. Hartert described four new subspecies on behalf of Mr. JD La Touche . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 40 , no. 246 , 1919, pp. 50-52 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Birds of North-East Chihli, in North China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 2 , no. 3 , 1920, p. 628-671 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Birds of North-East Chihli, in North China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 2 , no. 4 , 1920, p. 880-920 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Edward Charles Stuart Baker: Mr. Stuart Baker, on behalf of Mr. JD La Touche described the following new birds from SE Yunnan, SW China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 42 , no. 262 , 1921, pp. 13-18 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Notes on the Birds of North-East Chihli, in North China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 3 , no. 1 , 1921, p. 3-48 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche communicated the following descriptions of new birds from SE Yunnan, SW China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 42 , no. 263 , 1921, pp. 29-32 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • On the Birds of the Province of Hupeh in Central China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 4 , no. 2 , 1922, p. 445-471 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche described the following new birds from SE Yunnan, SW China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 42 , no. 264 , 1922, pp. 51-55 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche forwarded the description of a new species of Minivet, which he proposed to call . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 42 , no. 268 , 1922, pp. 125 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche sent the following descriptions of new forms of Chinese birds for publication . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 43 , no. 271 , 1922, pp. 20-23 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche forwarded the following descriptions of new subspecies of Chinese birds . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 43 , no. 272 , 1922, pp. 41-45 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche also sent the following descriptions . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 43 , no. 280 , 1922, pp. 172-174 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche forwarded the following descriptions of the following new subspecies of birds from China . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 43 , no. 274 , 1923, pp. 80-81 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche sent the following notes and descriptions . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 43 , no. 280 , 1923, pp. 168-169 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Mr. JD La Touche sent the following descriptions of new forms . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 44 , no. 282 , 1923, pp. 32-33 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • On the birds of South-East Yunnan, SW China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 5 , no. 2 , 1923, pp. 300-332 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1923.tb08220.x .
  • On the birds of South-East Yunnan, SW China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 5 , no. 3 , 1923, pp. 369-415 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1923.tb08103.x .
  • On the birds of South-East Yunnan, SW China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 5 , no. 4 , 1923, pp. 629-645 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1923.tb08228.x .
  • On the birds of South-East Yunnan, SW China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 6 , no. 2 , 1924, p. 284-307 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1924.tb05328.x .
  • Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China (Chihli, Shangtung, Kiangsu, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Fohkien, and Kwangtung Provinces) . tape 1 . Taylor and Francis, London ( blsea.nus.edu.sg - 1925–1930).
  • Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China (Chihli, Shangtung, Kiangsu, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Fohkien, and Kwangtung Provinces) . tape 2 . Taylor and Francis, London ( blsea.nus.edu.sg - 1931-1934).
  • Mr. JD La Touche sent the following letter . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 53 , no. 362 , 1932, pp. 32-33 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

literature

  • Andrew Allison: Some New Chinese Birds in the Heude Museum Collection: With a New Subspecies of Otus Bakkamoena and a New Subspecies of Eurystomus Orientalis . In: Notes d'Ornithology / Musée Heude . tape 2 , 1946, p. 1-7 .
  • Outram Bangs: The Chinese forms of Seicercus of the burkii form-circle . In: Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club . tape 11 , 1929, pp. 1-5 ( books.google.de ).
  • Outram Bangs: A Genus for Junco siemsseni Martens . In: Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club . tape 12 , 1931, p. 89-91 ( books.google.de ).
  • George Albert Boulenger: On a collection of reptiles and batrachians made by Mr. JD La Touche in NW Fokien . In: Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1899 . No. 1 , 1899, p. 159-172 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Committee BOU: Obituaries . In: The Ibis . tape 77 , no. 4 , 1935, pp. 889-890 ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF; 102 kB ]).
  • Frédéric Courtois: Les oiseaux du Musée de Zi-ka-wei. Notes et additions . In: Les oiseaux du Musée de Zi-ka-wei. Notes et additions . tape 5 , no. 3 , 1927, pp. 123–157 ( books.google.de ).
  • Herbert Deignan: Races of Pycnonotus cafer (linnaeus) or aurigaster (Vieillot) in the Indo-Chinese subregion . In: Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences . tape 39 , no. 8 , 1949, pp. 273-279 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Norman Boyd Kinnear: Mr. NR Kinnear sent the following descriptions of new birds . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 45 , no. 297 , 1925, pp. 105-106 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Michael McGinley: The La Touche Family in Ireland . The La Touche Legacy Committee, Dublin 2004, ISBN 978-0-9549143-0-1 .
  • Kuroda Nagamichi: Notes on the Birds of Tsushima and Iki Islands, Japan . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 4 , no. 29 , 1922, pp. 74-105 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Theodore Sherman Palmer: Obituaries . In: The Auk . tape 53 , no. 3 , 1935, pp. 370–371 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 394 kB ]).
  • Charles Boughey Rickett: Mr. Ogilvie Grant, on behalf of MCB Rickett, ehibited a very distinct new species of Sciops Owl, for which Mr. Rickett proposed the name of Scops Latouchi, sp.n. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 10 , no. 8 , 1900, p. 56-57 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Henry Horrocks Slater: On some Birds from South-eastern China with Description of two new Species . In: Ibis (=  6 ). tape 3 , no. 9 , 1891, p. 41-45 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Erwin Stresemann: New breeds of birds from Kwangsi . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 37 , 1929, pp. 139-141 ( books.google.de ).
  • Oldfield Thomas: The Duke of Bedford's Zoological Exploration in Eastern Asia-V. Second Liszt of Mammals from Korea . In: Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1899 . No. 2 , 1907, p. 462-466 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Oldfield Thomas: Two new Asiatic Bats of Genera Tadarida and Dyacopterus . 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 (=  9 ). tape 5 , no. 2 , 1920, p. 283-285 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry 101 of the marriage, pp. 78/193
  2. ↑ La Touche of Harristown, Co. Kildare
  3. ↑ Entry birth S. 107/256
  4. ↑ Michael McGinley.
  5. ↑ a b Committee BOU, p. 889.
  6. ^ Committee BOU, p. 890.
  7. ^ Theodore Sherman Palmer, p. 371.
  8. ^ Theodore Sherman Palmer, p. 370.
  9. ^ Members of the BOU in 1900
  10. ^ List of the fellows & honorary, foreign, & corresponding members & medallists of the Zoological society of London. Corrected to May 31st, 1910
  11. ^ Outram Bangs (1931), p. 91.
  12. ↑ Outram Bangs (1929), p. 4.
  13. ↑ Henry Horrocks Slater, pp. 43–44, plate 1.
  14. ^ Charles Boughey Rickett, pp. 56-57.
  15. ↑ Erwin Stresemann, p. 140.
  16. ^ Herbert Deignan, p. 275.
  17. ^ Norman Boyd Kinnear, p. 105.
  18. ↑ Andrew Allison, p. 6.
  19. ^ Frédéric Courtois, p. 137.
  20. ^ Kuroda Nagamichi, p. 92.
  21. ↑ Oldfield Thomas (1920), p. 283.
  22. ↑ Oldfield Thomas (1907), p. 463.
  23. ↑ George Albert Boulenger, p. 167, plate 19, figure 1.
  24. ↑ George Albert Boulenger, p. 164, plate 18, figure 1-1c.
personal data
SURNAME La Touche, John David Digues
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Touche, John; La Touche, Jean David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Irish ornithologist and tax officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Tours
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1935
Place of death at sea between Mallorca and Ireland