Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Taiwan (then known to Westerners...

throughout Southern California. Swinhoe's white-eye was formally described in 1861 by the English naturalist Robert Swinhoe and given the binomial name Zosterops...

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...

Swinhoe's storm petrel or Swinhoe's petrel (Hydrobates monorhis) is a small, all-brown seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. The scientific...

names: pseudorobin, red-tailed robin, Swinhoe's red-tailed robin, Swinhoe's robin, Swinhoe's pseudorobin, Swinhoe's nightingale or whistling nightingale...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

disease and prevent further spillover. List of endemic species of Taiwan Swinhoe, R. (1862). "On the mammals of the island of Formosa (China)". Proceedings...

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...

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...

cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1861. It breeds in China and winters in Mainland Southeast Asia....

Natural History Society and a brother of the famous naturalist Robert Swinhoe. Swinhoe was commissioned ensign in the 56th Regiment of Foot without purchase...

(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...

received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe among others. His Natural History of the Cranes was published posthumously...

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...

migratory wader. The common name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Swinhoe who first described the species in 1861. It is identifiable as a Gallinago...

Taiwan. The Taiwan blue magpie was collected by Robert Swinhoe and described by John Gould. Swinhoe translated the magpie's Hokkien name into English...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

were to buy alligators held in captivity and release them. In 1869, Robert Swinhoe saw a Chinese alligator in an exhibit in Shanghai and wrote the following...

Artiodactyla Family: Cervidae Subfamily: Cervinae Genus: Cervus Species: C. nippon Subspecies: C. n. kopschi Trinomial name Cervus nippon kopschi Swinhoe, 1873...

and occurs in Nepal and Northeast India. Viverra ashtoni described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864 was a skin of an individual that was shot near the upper Min...

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...

the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1870. It is found in southern China and northern Vietnam. Its natural...