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...
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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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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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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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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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Honeyeater (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Superfamily: Meliphagoidea Family: Meliphagidae Vigors, 1825 Genera See text...
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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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Sunbird (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Superfamily: Passeroidea Family: Nectariniidae Vigors, 1825 Genera 16, see text...
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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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Tyrant flycatcher (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Parvorder: Tyrannida Family: Tyrannidae Vigors, 1825 Type genus Tyrannus Genera Some 100, see text Distribution of tyrant...
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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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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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Nightjar (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Clade: Strisores Order: Caprimulgiformes Ridgway, 1881 Family: Caprimulgidae Vigors, 1825 Subfamilies Chordeilinae (nighthawks) Caprimulginae (typical nightjars)...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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Paradise kingfisher (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Moluccas and Queensland. The genus was erected by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825. The type species is the common paradise kingfisher. The...
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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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Southern ground hornbill (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
(1980). "The biology of the Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri (Vigors) (Aves: Bucerotidae)" (PDF). Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 32: 67. Kemp...
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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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Lark (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
family Alaudidae was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors as a subfamily Alaudina of the finch family Fringillidae. Larks...
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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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Ibisbill (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Ibidorhynchidae. There are no subspecies. The species was described in 1831 by Vigors based on painting by John Gould although Brian Hodgson had sent a manuscript...
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Anserinae (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Subfamily: Anserinae Vigors, 1825 Genera See text Synonyms Cygninae...
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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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Double-barred finch (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
2024-2.RLTS.T22719682A253992105.en. Retrieved 17 February 2025. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...
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Tody (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Coraciiformes Family: Todidae Vigors, 1825 Genera Todus †Palaeotodus Global range (in green)...
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