the quinarian system. Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow on 1785 as the first son of Capt. Nicholas Aylward Vigors who served in 29th (Worcestershire)...
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Great eared nightjar (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors based on a sample collected in the neighbourhood of Manila in the Philippines. Vigors coined the binomial...
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Bird-of-paradise (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Paradisaeidae has traditionally been attributed to the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Vigors was constrained by the quinarian system and his use of Paradisaeae...
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Hummingbird (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
The family Trochilidae was introduced in 1825 by Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with Trochilus as the type genus. In traditional taxonomy, hummingbirds...
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Koel (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
while the host flock is engaged in (distracted) mobbing the male. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...
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Asian golden cat (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
golden cat. Felis temmincki was the scientific name used in 1827 by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield who described a reddish brown cat skin from...
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Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), Irish zoologist and politician Tim Vigors (1922–2003), British fighter ace, founder of the Coolmore Stud Vigor (name)...
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Australian raven (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
pupil, this lasting until they are roughly 2.5 to 3 years of age. Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield described the Australian raven in 1827, its...
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Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, and naturalists. Raffles...
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reported from the Nilgiris. It was named after Irish-born zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors by Colonel William Henry Sykes. BirdLife International (2016)....
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Fantail (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...
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Pink cockatoo (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Australia, with the exception of the north east. Irish naturalist Nicholas Aylward Vigors described the species in 1831 as Plyctolophus leadbeateri. The...
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Nene (bird) (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
name for the Hawaiian Islands. The holotype specimen of Anser sandvicensis Vigors (List Anim. Garden Zool. Soc., ed.3, June 1833, p.4.) is held in the vertebrate...
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It is the type species of the genus Hypsipetes, established by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in the early 1830s. There are a number of subspecies, mostly varying...
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Double-barred finch (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22719682A94639041.en. Retrieved 6 March 2022. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...
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the genus Colaptes that was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) as the type...
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Crane (bird) (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Gruiformes Superfamily: Gruoidea Family: Gruidae Vigors, 1825 Type genus Grus Genera See text...
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Cossypha (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
name Cossypha for the genus was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825. The word comes from the Classical Greek kossuphos for...
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Carduelina[e] for the subfamily was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825. Carduelinae is derived from the Latin name carduelis and...
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refer to grebes, while Europeans used it for loons, following Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The International Commission on Zoological...
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Flat-headed cat (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
since 2008. The scientific name Felis planiceps was proposed by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827, who first described a skin of a flat-headed...
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Colaptes (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
species. The genus Colaptes was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) as the type...
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in islands ranging across the South Pacific. The Kuhl for whom Nicholas Aylward Vigors named the bird in 1824 was Heinrich Kuhl, a German ornithologist...
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California towhee (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
better identify birds. The term Melozone crissalis was developed by Nicholas Vigors in 1839, an Irish politician and zoologist who popularized the quinarian...
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Jacamar (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Suborder: Galbuli Family: Galbulidae Vigors, 1825 Genera Galbalcyrhynchus Brachygalba Jacamaralcyon Galbula Jacamerops...
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Tit (bird) (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Infraorder: Passerida Family: Paridae Vigors, 1825 Genera 5–10, see text. Global range (In green) Synonyms See text...
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Old World oriole (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Superfamily: Orioloidea Family: Oriolidae Vigors, 1825 Type genus Oriolus Linnaeus, 1766 Genera See text...
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designated as the stock dove (Columba oenas) by Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825. The American pigeons formerly included in Columba are...
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Macleay in 1819. The system was further promoted in the works of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, William John Swainson and Johann Jakob Kaup. Swainson's work on...
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Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1841 while Halcyoninae introduced by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 is earlier and has priority. A few taxonomists elevate...
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