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    Sidney Dillon Ripley II (September 20, 1913 – March 12, 2001) was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as secretary of the...
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    Sidney Dillon Ripley (January 11, 1863 – February 24, 1905) was an American insurance executive and prominent member of New York society during the Gilded...
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    destruction of what is now the Silent Valley National Park. Along with Sidney Dillon Ripley he wrote the landmark ten volume Handbook of the Birds of India and...
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    of Sidney Dillon Ripley I (1863–1905) and Louis Arthur Dillon Ripley (1878–1958), himself the father of Dillon's great-grandson Sidney Dillon Ripley II...
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    collections. The Institution grew slowly until 1964 when Sidney Dillon Ripley became secretary. Ripley managed to expand the institution by eight museums and...
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  • anthropologist Roswell Ripley (1823–1887), American general Sarah Bradford Ripley (1793–1867), American scholar Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001), American...
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    sightings. John James Audubon's painting of the bird was acquired by Sidney Dillon Ripley, and his family donated it to the Smithsonian American Art Museum...
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    OSS, she met Sidney Dillon Ripley. They married in 1949, and were the parents of three daughters:Julie Dillon Miller, Rosemary L. Ripley, and Sylvia McNeill...
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    seen again and even feared extinct until famously rediscovered by Sidney Dillon Ripley, an American ornithologist, in the late 1940s. It is predominantly...
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    the structure of the humerus and the structure of tracheal rings, Sidney Dillon Ripley suggested that it was undoubtedly in the Aythyini. A study found...
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    1928–1944 Alexander Wetmore, 1944–1952 Leonard Carmichael, 1953–1964 Sidney Dillon Ripley, 1964–1984 Robert McCormick Adams, Jr., 1984–1994 Ira Michael Heyman...
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  • preventing the destruction of Silent Valley National Park. Ali along with Sidney Dillon Ripley wrote the 10 volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan....
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    A. (2003) Sankaran (1998), BLI (2008) Ali & Ripley (1983), BLI (2008) Ali, Salim & Sidney Dillon Ripley (1983). Bird Numbers 1015-1017 [Hill mynas]....
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    67–73. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-26. Ali, Salim; Sidney Dillon Ripley (1978). Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Volume 1 (2nd ed...
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    Sokoke scops owl (category Taxa named by Sidney Dillon Ripley)
    estimates of the population density of the Sokoke scops owl Otus ireneae Ripley in the East Usambara lowlands, Tanzania". African Journal of Ecology. 35...
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  • India. Retrieved 26 March 2008. Patsy Lozupone, Bruce M. Beehler, Sidney Dillon Ripley.(2004).Ornithological gazetteer of the Indian subcontinent, p. 82...
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    and Palni Hills. A darker race travancoriensis was described by Sidney Dillon Ripley in 1953 for the form possibly restricted south of the Palghat Gap...
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    Negros fruit dove was described in 1955 as Ptilinopus arcanus by Sidney Dillon Ripley and Dioscoro Rabor on the basis of a single female specimen collected...
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    Christopher Helm. pp. 49, 193. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. Ali, Salim; Sidney Dillon Ripley (2001) [1986]. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, 2nd ed...
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    original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2017. Salim Ali; Sidney Dillon Ripley (1980). Handbook of the birds of India and Pakistan. Vol. 2 (2nd ed...
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    Proctor, actor, member of The Firesign Theatre Rex Robbins, actor Sidney Dillon Ripley, secretary of Smithsonian Institution David Shire, songwriter and...
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    Assam and Nagaland (although movements are known), was described by Sidney Dillon Ripley in 1950, although he placed it as a subspecies of cristatellus based...
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    heavily streaked on its upperparts. P. m. hepaticus, described by Sidney Dillon Ripley in 1948, breeds from northeastern Assam to northwestern Burma. It...
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    Red-eared parrotfinch (category Taxa named by Sidney Dillon Ripley)
    Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Estrildidae Genus: Erythrura Species: E. coloria Binomial name Erythrura coloria Ripley & Rabor, 1961...
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    Mindanao scops owl (category Taxa named by Sidney Dillon Ripley)
    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Strigiformes Family: Strigidae Genus: Otus Species: O. mirus Binomial name Otus mirus Ripley & Rabor, 1968...
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  • Furtive flycatcher (category Taxa named by Sidney Dillon Ripley)
    Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Muscicapidae Genus: Ficedula Species: F. disposita Binomial name Ficedula disposita (Ripley & Marshall, 1967)...
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    (December 1876, 1 specimen) By 1904 it was already considered a rarity. Sidney Dillon Ripley (1952) records a local bird name sano kalo titra ("small black/dusky...
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    original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023. Secretary S. Dillon Ripley shows the Beatles' Rolls-Royce to Caron Carter in the underground driveway...
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  • – US Joseph Harvey Riley – US Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – Scotland Sidney Dillon Ripley – US Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania Chandler Robbins...
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    Mishmi wren-babbler (category Taxa named by Sidney Dillon Ripley)
    Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Timaliidae Genus: Spelaeornis Species: S. badeigularis Binomial name Spelaeornis badeigularis Ripley, 1948...
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