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Leaflitter Babbler
The leaflitter babbler (''Pellorneum poliogene'') is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae that is found in northern and central Borneo. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler (''Pellorneum malaccense''). Taxonomy The leaflitter babbler was Species description, formally described in 1849 by the English naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland based on a specimen collected in Borneo. He placed it with the shortwings in the genus ''Brachypteryx'' and coined the binomial name ''Brachypteryx poliogensis''. The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek ''polios'' meaning "grey" and ''genus'' meaning "cheek". The leaflitter babbler is now placed in the genus ''Pellorneum'' that was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William John Swainson, William Swainson. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler (renamed the mourning babbler) (''Pellorneum malaccense'') but based o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as the Strickland Code, that was a precursor of later codes for nomenclature. Biography Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, and grandson of Sir George Strickland, bart., of Boynton. In 1827 he was sent as a pupil to Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), a family friend. As a boy he acquired a taste for natural history which dominated his life. He received his early education from private tutors and in 1829 entered Oriel College, Oxford. He attended the anatomical lectures of John Kidd and the geological lectures of William Buckland and he became interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
