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    The Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds was written by the English naturalist and army officer George Montagu, and first...
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    Montagu discovered the species, as he recorded in his book, the Ornithological Dictionary, 1802. The species appears to have first colonised Britain near...
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    military officer and ornithologist. He was known for his pioneering Ornithological Dictionary of 1802, which for the first time accurately defined the status...
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    for Ornithology was started in 1933 with the aim of advancing ornithological research. Members were often involved in collaborative ornithological projects...
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    'Sclavonian', is first attested by George Montagu in his 1802 Ornithological Dictionary, from Sclavonia, an old name for northern Prussia, referring to...
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    Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique) 19th century George Montagu (Ornithological Dictionary) Georges Cuvier (Le Règne Animal) William Smith Charles Darwin...
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    This is considered the beginning of scientific ornithology in Europe, revolutionizing ornithological taxonomy by organizing species according to their...
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    George (1813). "Tern-Roseate Sterna dougallii". Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary, or Synopsis of British Birds. Exeter, England: Printed by S....
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    Anatomy: Nomina Anatomica Avium. Nuttall Ornithological Club. Whitney, William Dwight (1906). The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. Entry for "Feather"....
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    George Montagu publishes Supplement to the Ornithological dictionary, or Synopsis of British birds The Berlin museum contains 2000 bird specimens Ongoing...
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    illustrator. In 1537, at the age of 21, his publication of a Graecolatin dictionary led to his sponsors obtained for him the professorship of Greek at the...
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    September 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2021. "swansong". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating...
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  • particulière des crustacés et insectes. George Montagu publishes his Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds. In the history of...
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  • Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique) 19th century George Montagu (Ornithological Dictionary) Georges Cuvier (Le Règne Animal) William Smith Charles Darwin...
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    have been historical records of the bird elsewhere, as in an ornithological dictionary of Gibraltar, written in 1895, it indirectly states that the slender-billed...
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    Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique) 19th century George Montagu (Ornithological Dictionary) Georges Cuvier (Le Règne Animal) William Smith Charles Darwin...
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    pileated woodpecker is now one of six species that the International Ornithological Committee and the Clements taxonomy place in genus Dryocopus. The North...
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    Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique) 19th century George Montagu (Ornithological Dictionary) Georges Cuvier (Le Règne Animal) William Smith Charles Darwin...
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    Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique) 19th century George Montagu (Ornithological Dictionary) Georges Cuvier (Le Règne Animal) William Smith Charles Darwin...
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  • Neotropical ornithology". Ornitologia Neotropical. 23: 399–404. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals...
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    Patents Applied for and Patents ... Great Britain. Patent Office The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson ITIS Taxon author:...
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    "Ethno-ornithological Perspectives on the Ch'ol Maya". Reitaku Review. 17: 42–92. Retrieved 2019-09-02. "TOHONO 'O'ODHAM-ENGLISH DICTIONARY" (PDF). University...
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    Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3 Serle, Percival (1949). "Leach, John Albert". Dictionary of Australian...
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    2015. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp...
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    A History of British Birds (category Ornithological handbooks)
    The 1829 Magazine of Natural History commented that "Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary and Bewick's Birds .. have rendered [the] department of natural...
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    books included Birds-nesting (1861), New Edition of Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary (1866), Illustrated Natural History of British Moths (1869) and...
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  • (1802). Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, London: J. White. Montagu, George (1813). Supplement to the Ornithological Dictionary...
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    Lamarck (Philosophie zoologique) 19th century George Montagu (Ornithological Dictionary) Georges Cuvier (Le Règne Animal) William Smith Charles Darwin...
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    with Charadriinae including most of the species. The International Ornithological Congress (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy do not assign species to subfamilies...
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    synthesis George Montagu (1753–1815), English naturalist, author of Ornithological Dictionary Luc Montagnier (1932–2022), French virologist, awarded the Nobel...
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