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    Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer....
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    after German zoologist Otto Finsch. It is located to the south-southeast of the crater Sarabhai and northeast of Bessel. "Finsch (crater)". Gazetteer of...
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    Sagittariidae (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    artifact called the Pull of the recent.[relevant?] German naturalists Otto Finsch and Gustav Hartlaub established the taxon name as a subfamily—Sagittariinae—in...
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    German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig). There are two recognized...
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    Mourning collared dove (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Streptopelia Species: S. decipiens Binomial name Streptopelia decipiens (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)...
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    Lophochroa goffini is attributed to Otto Finsch in 1863. It was named for Andreas Leopold Goffin, a friend of Finsch's and apparently a Dutch naval lieutenant...
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    The specific epithet finschi and the common name honours ornithologist Otto Finsch, who first recognised it as a distinct species. The species was originally...
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    binomial of this bird commemorates the German naturalist and explorer Otto Finsch. Its face is grey/green, and the rest of its head is dull green with...
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    Nauru reed warbler (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    found elsewhere, but was driven to local extinction by introduced cats. Otto Finsch was the first naturalist to visit the island of Nauru, stopping for six...
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    and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig). Finsch's pygmy parrot is characterized by a green...
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    the German Chancellor, Count Otto von Bismarck, and with secrecy and speed an expedition was fitted out under Dr Otto Finsch, ornithologist and explorer...
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    remained with the aquarium until 1874. In 1876 he travelled to Siberia with Otto Finsch. In the winter of 1883 to 1884 Brehm planned a lecture tour to the US...
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    Markham, Rawlinson Ranges, and explores around the Markham's mouth. 1884 Otto Finsch on `Samoa' explores New Guinea under Deutsche Neuguinea-Kompagnie and...
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    Silktail (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    been a long-standing mystery. When describing the Taveuni silktail, Otto Finsch wrote "I scarcely remember a bird which has puzzled me in respect of...
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    lilac-crowned parrot, Finsch's parrot or Finsch's amazon, is a parrot endemic to the Pacific slopes of Mexico. Also known as Finsch's amazon, it is characterised...
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    It was thus termed Kaiserin Augustafluß by the explorer and scientist Otto Finsch, after the German Empress Augusta. The word Sipik was first reported...
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    Finschhafen was surveyed in 1884 by the German scientist and explorer Otto Finsch who gave his name to the town. A town was built in 1885 as part of the...
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  • German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig). BirdLife International...
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    In April 1884 an expedition by the German New Guinea Company led by Otto Finsch and Eduard Dallmann arrived and named the landing point "Friedrich Wilhelmshafen";...
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    expense”. On his return to Germany from his 1879–1882 Pacific expedition, Otto Finsch joined a small, informal group interested in German colonial expansion...
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    Royal penguin (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    Order: Sphenisciformes Family: Spheniscidae Genus: Eudyptes Species: E. schlegeli Binomial name Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, 1876 Distribution royal penguin...
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    in Europe and the United States. The Eleonora cockatoo was named by Otto Finsch. He discovered the subspecies in Amsterdam's Artis zoo and named it after...
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    Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    crowned pigeon. This species was first described by the German zoologist Otto Finsch who received a live bird from the dealer C. Scheepmaker in Amsterdam...
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    journal with Jean Cabanis, the Journal für Ornithologie. He wrote with Otto Finsch, Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesiens: Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa...
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  • 1878 to Ludwig Graf von Schaffgotsch (1842–1891). The ornithologist Otto Finsch named Myiopsitta luchsi (now usually treated as a subspecies of the monk...
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    German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch. BirdLife International (2016). "Iole finschii". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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    Finsch's rufous thrush (Stizorhina finschi), also known as Finsch's flycatcher-thrush, Finsch's rusty flycatcher, Finsch's ant thrush or Finsch's rufous...
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    Halmahera golden bulbul (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
    Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Pycnonotidae Genus: Hypsipetes Species: H. chloris Binomial name Hypsipetes chloris (Finsch, 1867)...
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  • finschi, is in honor of German naturalist Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839–1917). Finsch's monitor was only known from Blanche Bay, Ralum, and Massawa...
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    Martin Hilgendorf, Eduard von Martens, Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker, Otto Finsch, Gustav Hartlaub, et al. Animals and plants with the specific epithets...
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