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    Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Qing-era Taiwan (then known to...
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    names: pseudorobin, red-tailed robin, Swinhoe's red-tailed robin, Swinhoe's robin, Swinhoe's pseudorobin, Swinhoe's nightingale or whistling nightingale...
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    Swinhoe's storm petrel or Swinhoe's petrel (Hydrobates monorhis) is a small, all-brown seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. The scientific...
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  • Natural History Society and a brother of the famous naturalist Robert Swinhoe. Swinhoe was commissioned ensign in the 56th Regiment of Foot without purchase...
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    Formosan clouded leopard (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    at Exeter Exchange in London. Leopardus brachyurus was proposed by Robert Swinhoe in 1862 who described a skin of a clouded leopard from Formosa. It was...
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    Formosan black bear (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    is a subspecies of the Asiatic black bear. It was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864. Formosan black bears are endemic to Taiwan. They are also the...
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    throughout Southern California. Swinhoe's white-eye was formally described in 1861 by the English naturalist Robert Swinhoe and given the binomial name Zosterops...
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    Grey treepie (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    long-tailed member of the crow family. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. They are widely distributed along the foothills of the Himalayas...
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    Oriental stork (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    in the stork family Ciconiidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1873. It is closely related to and resembles the European white stork...
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    Pechora pipit (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    may be observed in western Europe. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1863. A. gustavi is a small pipit, which somewhat resembles the non-breeding...
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    Formosan ferret-badger (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    disease and prevent further spillover. List of endemic species of Taiwan Swinhoe, R. (1862). "On the mammals of the island of Formosa (China)". Proceedings...
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    received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe among others. His Natural History of the Cranes was published posthumously...
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    Water deer (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    have been imported. It was first described to the Western world by Robert Swinhoe in 1870. There are two subspecies: the Chinese water deer (H. i. inermis)...
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    Eastern spot-billed duck (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    The eastern spot-billed duck was described by the English biologist Robert Swinhoe in 1866 under its current binomial name Anas zonorhyncha. The name of...
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    Chinese egret or Swinhoe's egret (Egretta eulophotes) is a threatened species of egret from east Asia, first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1860. The Chinese...
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    Formosan rock macaque (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    native primates living in Taiwan. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1862. Rock macaques measure 50–60 cm and weigh 5–12 kg, generally...
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    (red, white, and blue). The bird was named after British naturalist Robert Swinhoe, who first described the species in 1862. Locally, the species is known...
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    Japanese serow (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    (Japanese: ニホンカモシカ, Hepburn: Nihon kamoshika) As Capricornis crispa; Robert Swinhoe amended it for gender agreement in 1870. In Japanese, the word kamoshika...
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    Taiwan. The Taiwan blue magpie was collected by Robert Swinhoe and described by John Gould. Swinhoe translated the magpie's Hokkien name into English...
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    great effect in the Second Opium War. As reported by the translator Robert Swinhoe, after the British attack on the Chinese fort at Pehtang: Numbers of...
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    Manchurian sika deer (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    largest of the 14 subspecies of sika deer. It was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864. The Manchurian sika deer was formerly found in Manchuria (northeastern...
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    turtle, the Shanghai softshell turtle, the speckled softshell turtle, and Swinhoe's softshell turtle, is an extremely rare species of turtle in the family...
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    a clouded leopard specimen from Nepal. Felis brachyura proposed by Robert Swinhoe in 1862 was a clouded leopard skin from Taiwan. The generic name Neofelis...
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    professor Thorold Rogers, architect William Burges and ornithologist Robert Swinhoe. The first women fellows were elected in 1904. Lilian Faithfull, vice-principal...
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    Hainan hare (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    endemic to Hainan Island, China. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1870. The Hainan hare is small; its body length is less than 40 centimetres...
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    migratory wader. The common name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Swinhoe who first described the species in 1861. It is identifiable as a Gallinago...
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    unsuccessfully pursued protection from Tokugawa Iemitsu. In 1861 Consul Robert Swinhoe arrived at Taiwan-fu (modern-day Tainan) and became the first European...
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    Staphida (category Taxa named by Robert Swinhoe)
    1871 to accommodate the Indochinese yuhina by the English naturalist Robert Swinhoe in John Gould's The Birds of Asia. The genus contains the following...
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    cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1861. It breeds in China and winters in Mainland Southeast Asia....
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    fossils were found. Leopardus brachyurus was first described in 1862 by Robert Swinhoe based on two to three skins from Taiwan. Today the Formosan clouded...
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