the quinarian system. Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow, in 1785. He was the first son of Capt. Nicholas Aylward Vigors, who served in the 29th...

while the host flock is engaged in (distracted) mobbing the male. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...

Paradisaeidae has traditionally been attributed to the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Vigors was constrained by the quinarian system and his use of Paradisaeae...

the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors based on a sample collected in the neighbourhood of Manila in the Philippines. Vigors coined the binomial...

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...

The family Trochilidae was introduced in 1825 by Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with Trochilus as the type genus. In traditional taxonomy, hummingbirds...

Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), Irish zoologist and politician Tim Vigors (1922–2003), British fighter ace, founder of the Coolmore Stud Vigor (name)...

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...

Australia, with the exception of the north east. Irish naturalist Nicholas Aylward Vigors described the species in 1831 as Plyctolophus leadbeateri. The...

UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22719682A94639041.en. Retrieved 6 March 2022. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...

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...

Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, and naturalists. Raffles...

aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...

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...

Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Suborder: Galbuli Family: Galbulidae Vigors, 1825 Genera Galbalcyrhynchus Brachygalba Jacamaralcyon Galbula Jacamerops...

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...

Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Infraorder: Passerida Family: Paridae Vigors, 1825 Genera 5–10, see text. Global range (In green) Synonyms See text...

Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Gruiformes Superfamily: Gruoidea Family: Gruidae Vigors, 1825 Type genus Grus Genera See text...

Geokichla erythronota Red-and-black thrush, Geokichla mendeni Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1832). "Zoothera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:...

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...

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...

Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Garrulus Species: G. lanceolatus Binomial name Garrulus lanceolatus Vigors, 1830...

the genus Colaptes that was introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) as the type...

zoologist Nicholas Vigors under the binomial name Nucifraga hemispila. He specified the type locality as just "the Himalayas"; however, research into Vigors' travels...

better identify birds. The term Melozone crissalis was developed by Nicholas Vigors in 1839, an Irish politician and zoologist who popularized the quinarian...

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...

Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1841 while Halcyoninae introduced by Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 is earlier and has priority. A few taxonomists elevate...

The superfamily was described in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors. The name Phasianoidea is formed by the union of the elements of...

family Alaudidae was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors as a subfamily Alaudina of the finch family Fringillidae. Larks...

refer to grebes, while Europeans used it for loons, following Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The International Commission on Zoological...