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Heterocercus Aurantiivertex
The orange-crested manakin (''Heterocercus aurantiivertex'') is a species of bird in the family Pipridae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swampland and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. References Heterocercus, orange-crested manakin Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon Birds of Peruvian Amazonia Birds described in 1880, orange-crested manakin Taxa named by Philip Sclater, orange-crested manakin Taxa named by Osbert Salvin, orange-crested manakin Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pipridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an England, English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years, from 1860–1902. Early life Sclater was born at Tangier Park, in Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, where his father William Lutley Sclater had a country house. George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing was Philip's elder brother. Philip grew up at Hoddington House where he took an early interest in birds. He was educated in school at Twyford and at thirteen went to Winchester College and later Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he studied scientific ornithology under Hugh Edwin Strickland. In 1851 he began to study law and was admitted a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. In 1856 he travelled to America and visited Lake Superior and the upper St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota), St. Croix River, cano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
