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    Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby...
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    Robert Catesby (c. 1572 – 8 November 1605) was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Warwickshire...
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    new genus Calycanthus. Linnaeus referred to an earlier illustration by Mark Catesby, contained in a work published from 1731 onwards. Plants of the World...
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    Catawba people. The spellings "Catalpa" and "Catalpah" were used by Mark Catesby between 1729 and 1732, and Carl Linnaeus published the tree's name as...
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    Carolina" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands...
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    Christopher Catesby Harington (born 26 December 1986), known professionally as Kit Harington, is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Jon...
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    illustrated by Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands which was published in 1729–1732. Catesby gave the location...
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    finch" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in his book The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands...
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    Dutch-born British economist Mark Buchanan (born 1961), American physicist Mark Catesby (1682–1749), English naturalist Mark Wayne Chase (born 1951), American-born...
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  • constituency) John Catesby (MP for Northamptonshire), MP for Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency) in 1425 and 1429 Mark Catesby (1683–1749), English...
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    Charles Bonaparte in 1838. The common name oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 for the North American species H. palliatus, which he described...
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    Originally called the "sea pie", it was renamed in 1731 when naturalist Mark Catesby observed the bird eating oysters. The current population of American...
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    are fed crop milk by their parents. In 1731, the English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the passenger pigeon and the mourning dove...
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    illustrated by Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The book had been published in 1729–1732. Catesby gave the...
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    the pale reddish blush of its lower underside. The English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the red-bellied woodpecker in his book The...
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    solid black one of the red-headed woodpecker. The English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the red-headed woodpecker in his book The Natural...
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    though some adventurous Americans grew the native P. inodorus that Mark Catesby had discovered growing on the banks of the Savannah River. It appeared...
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    collected it in eastern North America during the mid-18th century. Earlier, Mark Catesby saw it during his travels in Carolina, and after his return to England...
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    "accipiter cauda furcata" (forked-tail hawk) by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in 1731. It was given the binomial scientific name Falco forficatus by...
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    canadensis was further described by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in 1747. Catesby published a striking color illustration of a live specimen transplanted...
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    crest, from the Latin pileatus meaning "capped". The English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the pileated woodpecker in his book The Natural...
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    century it was the chief wood employed in Europe for that purpose. Mark Catesby's Natural History describes mahogany's excellence in that regard: "[Mahogany]...
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    (known by its colloquial name "yellowhammer"). The English naturalist Mark Catesby described and illustrated the northern flicker in his book The Natural...
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    fly-catcher" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in his book The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands...
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    described and illustrated in 1729–1732 by the English naturalist Mark Catesby. Catesby also used the Latin Alauda magna but as his book predates the introduction...
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    accounts of these birds in two pre-Linnean books. One of these was Mark Catesby's description of the passenger pigeon, which was published in his 1731...
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    description was based on a 1731 account of it by English naturalist Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands...
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    Coracias xanthornus he cited descriptions of birds occurring in Jamaica by Mark Catesby and Patrick Browne as well as an illustration by George Edwards of a...
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    Mark Catesby, The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus), published 1731-1743. An eighteenth-century print with Linnaeus' original name for the longnose gar....
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    Mark Catesby (1731), Natural History of Carolina etc., plate 39, with Magnolia lauri folio, subtus albicante, the Sweet Bay (Magnolia virginiana) and Coccothraustes...
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