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    François Levaillant (born Vaillant, later in life as Le Vaillant, "The Valiant") (6 August 1753 – 22 November 1824) was a French author, explorer, naturalist...
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    sub-Saharan bird in the Lybiidae family. Its specific name commemorates François Levaillant, a famed French naturalist. With its thick bill and very colourful...
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    whether she had the elongated labia which earlier naturalists such as François Levaillant had purportedly observed in Khoisan at the Cape. French naturalists...
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    by François Levaillant in 1806. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with gastēr meaning "belly". Levaillant mistaken...
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    Levaillant's woodpecker (Picus vaillantii) or Levaillant's green woodpecker, is a large African member of the woodpecker family Picidae. Levaillant's...
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    from its original genus name, so named by the French naturalist François Levaillant, who called it 'the vociferous one'. The African fish eagle is a...
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    by white settlers in 1668. In 1782 French explorer ornithologist François Levaillant explored the area, and discovered farmers had settled at foot of...
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    native to Japan (they were kept by the emperor and no longer occur). François Levaillant was one of the first Western ornithologists to see a live bird, imported...
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    the Guianas and northeastern Brazil. The fish is named in honor of François Levaillant (1753-1824) a French explorer, naturalist and zoological collector...
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    Denis Levaillant (born 3 August 1952) is a French composer, pianist and writer based in Paris, France. He has orchestrated more than twenty musical shows...
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  • number of bird specimens acquired through field collectors such as François Levaillant. His collection were passed on to his son, Coenraad Jacob Temminck...
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    the Birds of Western Africa, by William Swainson with a memoir of François Levaillant 1838, The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland:...
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    common name by François Levaillant, a French naturalist and explorer. The original scientific name was Falco ecaudatus, given by François Marie Daudin,...
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    Natal traveler (1808–1872) Dick King, colonial pioneer (1813–1871) François Levaillant, Cape naturalist traveler (1753–1824) Karl Mauch, traveling geologist...
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  • d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Bécoeur's secret had been handed over to François Levaillant (1753–1828), who sold the recipe together with his collection of...
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    abode of this beautiful place", wrote the 18th century traveller François Levaillant, when he entered the foothills of the Outeniqua range in the Southern...
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    and "beauty". Father of the more famous François Levaillant, explorer and ornithologist, the elder Levaillant was a merchant of Metz who served as French...
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    of the bluebuck appears in the travel memoirs of French explorer François Levaillant, published in the 1780s, describing his quest to discover the land...
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    Perruche à large queue, "the long-tailed parrot" by French naturalist François Levaillant in his 1805 work Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets. Kuhl's name also...
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    Dutch military commander Robert Jacob Gordon and French traveller François Levaillant. Gordon's stay in South Africa produced scientific writings, drawings...
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    The species was described on the basis of a specimen obtained by François Levaillant from Chandernagore in Bengal where he was told it went by the name...
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    South Africa that had been described and illustrated in 1806 by François Levaillant. The brown-throated martin is now one of six martins placed in the...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France René Lesson – France François Levaillant – France Graceanna Lewis – US Félix Louis L'Herminier – France Hinrich...
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    large collection of bird specimens. His father was a good friend of Francois Levaillant who also guided Coenraad. Temminck's Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau...
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    Mathurin Jacques Brisson, in 1760, Comte de Buffon, in 1770–1783, and François Levaillant, in 1801–1805, who described them from specimens that reached France...
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  • a French ornithologist, herpetologist, and naturalist. Levaill → François Levaillant, a French ornithologist and naturalist. Lew → William Lewin, an English...
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    based on François Levaillant's description of the species as la Perruche Edwards in his 1805 work Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets. Levaillant named it...
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    Bonaparte. Among his most famous works are those he made to illustrate François Le Vaillant's scientific studies on parrots (perroquets), birds of paradise...
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    Temminck, who believed it to be from Java. From there it was named by François Levaillant as the gauze-tailed warbler. This mistake was not picked up for another...
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    and illustrated by François Levaillant in 1801. The specific epithet fontalis is Modern Latin meaning "fronted" or "browed". Levaillant specified the locality...
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