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    William Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist. An collector...
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  • entrepreneur John Swainson (1925–1994), American politician William John Swainson (1789–1855), English naturalist William Swainson (lawyer) (1809–1884)...
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    coloration and beautiful, ascending flute-like voice. Swainson's thrush was named after William Swainson, an English ornithologist. The genus name Catharus...
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  • William Swainson (25 April 1809 – 1 December 1884) became the second, and last, Attorney-General of the Crown colony of New Zealand and instrumental in...
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    Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large bird species in the Accipitriformes order. This species was named after William Swainson, a British naturalist...
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    member of the genus Limnothlypis. Swainson's warbler was named after William Swainson, an English ornithologist. Swainson's warblers are a small and rather...
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    Cowbird (category Taxa named by William John Swainson)
    nests of other species. The genus was introduced by English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 with the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) as the type...
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    commemorates the English naturalist William Swainson. The type specimen was collected from Brazil by English naturalist William Swainson, and described by Nicholas...
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    the genus Setophaga that was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. Townsend's...
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    John Franklin, R.N, Sir John Richardson by Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby, published by J. Murray, 1829 Distribution and Genetics...
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    Flycatchers or Muscicapidae, by William Swainson with a memoir of Albrecht von Haller 1838, A History of British Quadrupeds, by William MacGillivray with a memoir...
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    had originally been introduced in 1827 by the English ornithologist William Swainson. Four subspecies are recognised: C. f. damarensis (Roberts, 1922) –...
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    genus Haemorhous that was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson. Two subspecies are recognised: H. p. purpureus (Gmelin, JF, 1789)...
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    The genus Cyclarhis was introduced in 1789 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate a single species, the rufous-browed peppershrike, which...
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    the family Ardeidae. The genus was erected by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827, with the rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) as the...
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    Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. By John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby Published by J. Murray, 1829 The Natural History of Dogs:...
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    American dipper (category Taxa named by William John Swainson)
    zoologist William Swainson in 1827 based on a specimen that had been collected in Mexico by the English naturalist William Bullock. Swainson placed the...
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    genus Zanclostomus was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate the red-billed malkoha. The genus name combines the...
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    Saurophagus was preoccupied: in 1831, it had already been given by William Swainson to a tyrant-flycatcher, an extant eater of taxonomically true lizards...
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    swallow. Linnaeus included eight species in the genus and of these William Swainson designated the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) as the type species....
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    Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. By John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby, published by J. Murray, 1829. Adapted from the book "Why...
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    riflebird was formally described in 1825 by the English naturalist William Swainson under the current binomial name Ptiloris paradiseus. It is one of the...
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    Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. By John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby, published by J. Murray, 1829. The Gardens and Menagerie...
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    introduced (as a subfamily Leiotrichanae) by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832. A comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study of the family...
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    peppershrike in the genus Cyclarhis that was introduced in 1824 by William Swainson. Twenty two subspecies are recognised: C. g. septentrionalis Phillips...
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    Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. by John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby, published by J. Murray, 1829 Polar Controversy Archived...
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    Lindley after horticulturalist William Cattley. Cattley obtained a specimen of then unnamed Cattleya labiata from William Swainson who had discovered the new...
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    American sparrows placed in the genus Zonotrichia that was introduced by William Swainson in 1832. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ζωνη (zōnē) meaning "band"...
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    popularised by Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), William Sharp Macleay (1792–1865), William Swainson, and others. The idea was that nature followed a...
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    Dendrocygna that was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson. The species is treated as monotypic: no subspecies are recognised...
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