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    Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French ornithologist and aviculturist. He later became American. He was renowned for...
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    Berlioz travelled to Madagascar and Vietnam on collection trips with Jean Delacour between 1925 and 1932. Among his writings, were three chapters on taxonomy...
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    described in 1949 by Jean Delacour, as P. imperator, found in Indochina. From the advice of a bird dealer in Hong Kong, Delacour concluded there were...
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    (1968) with Leslie H. Brown, and Curassows and Related Birds (1973) with Jean Delacour (2nd edition, 2004). He died on January 12, 2003, in his home at 25...
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    The genus Rhodonessa was originally created for this species alone. Jean Delacour and Ernst Mayr, in their 1945 revision of the family Anatidae considered...
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    ornithologist Jean Delacour. Greenway took part in the expedition from April to August 1929, after which he and Delacour left Madagascar for Delacour's fifth...
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    London: Newnes. pp. 240 p. : illus, 23 cm. Waterfowl of the World – with Jean Delacour, Country Life 1954 Gallico, Paul (1946), The Snow Goose, Michael Joseph...
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    Blyth. The red avadavat were earlier included in the genus Estrilda by Jean Delacour. This placement was followed for a while but morphological, behavioural...
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    Some scientists, such as Jean Delacour, have considered the Mariana mallard a simple hybrid, so it was absent from Delacour's four-volume monograph on...
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  • prize to Delacour and Jabouille for their work. After retirement in 1933, he settled in Château de Clères and continued to work with Jean Delacour until...
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    northern Vietnam. It is named for French-American ornithologist Jean Théodore Delacour. Delacour's langur is somewhat larger than its two closest relatives,...
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    July 2023 Miller, Alden H. (January 1952). "The Pheasants of the World Jean Delacour J. C. Harrison". The Condor. 54 (1): 70–71. doi:10.2307/1364534. ISSN 0010-5422...
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  • De la Cour (section Delacour)
    general Jean Théodore Delacour (1890–1985), French-born American ornithologist Marcelle Delacour (fl. 1935), French table tennis player Yves Delacour (1930-2014)...
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    publisher, and her book was reviewed by Aldo Leopold, Joseph Grinnell, and Jean Delacour. Nice dedicated her book to "My Friend Ernst Mayr." Mayr joined the...
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    awarded the Japanese Medal with Purple Ribbon and in 1977 was awarded the Jean Delacour Prize. In 1978 he received the Order of the Golden Ark from the World...
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  • Franco-British-American zoological expedition to Madagascar (1929–1931), led by Jean Delacour, on which he was responsible for mammal collecting. The American component...
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    1927, he returned to Japan, travelling via the United States along Jean Delacour, with whom he visited China and Korea later. In 1928–9, he went to the...
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  • Robert Ripley. Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoonist. 1942 May 21: Jean Delacour. Bird expert of the Bronx Zoo. 1954 ??: Fritz Duquesne. "My Life – In...
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    pink-headed ducks wouldn't breed but the Mandarin ducks which he was sent by Jean Delacour were more successful and founded a large colony across south-east England...
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  • Hertfordshire, England. Other clients included John Spedan Lewis and Jean Delacour. In 1953 Mayer became manager of Sir Edward Hallstrom’s aviaries at...
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  • Congress of 1930 Barclay-Smith spoke on oil pollution and sea birds. Jean Delacour who was vice-president of the International Council for Bird Preservation...
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    later moved to the genus Tesia. In 1942, the American ornithologist Jean Delacour moved the species into the subgenus Urosphena within the genus Cettia...
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    Melanocichla lugubris calvus. In 1946, the French-American ornithologist Jean Delacour synonymised Melanocichla with Garrulax. In 2006, the British ornithologist...
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    2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706639A94081257.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021. Jean Delacour, 'The Lesser Graybirds (Coracina) of Asia and Malaysia', American Museum...
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    Alaotra grebe (category Taxa named by Jean Théodore Delacour)
    The Alaotra grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus), also known as Delacour's little grebe or rusty grebe, is a recently extinct grebe that was endemic to Lake...
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  • she is beautiful, graceful, and well-dressed. Also singled out is Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbatons champion in the Triwizard Tournament, a beautiful girl...
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    from B. c. maxima in addition to the nominate subspecies canadensis. Delacour, Jean (1954). The Waterfowl of the World. New York: Hamlyn Publishing Group...
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    Louis-Henri Brévière - Jean-Antoine Chaptal - Jean Siméon Chardin - Cochin - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Georges Cuvier - Jean Delacour - Jacques Delille...
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  • flowerpecker was formally described in 1928 by the French ornithologists Jean Théodore Delacour and Pierre Jabouille based on a specimen collected at Bokor in southern...
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  • Imperial pheasant (category Taxa named by Jean Théodore Delacour)
    feathers. Previously known only from a pair taken alive to Europe by Jean Théodore Delacour in 1923, this species was rediscovered in 1990, when an immature...
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