Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (27 April 1758 – 8 January 1830) was a French

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. A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.Stresemann, p. 117 Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of

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nese bird species discovered by

Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de La Tour (13 November 1773 – 14 March 1826) was a French botanist and ornithologist. Born at the family seat (since 1718), Le Villard, near Chalon-sur-Saône, Leschenault de la Tour arrived in ...

; he also contributed articles on

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to the ''Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles'', edited and published from 1816 to 1830 by F. G. Levrault. Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist. His younger brother, André Dumont was elected to the Convention during the

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. He was honoured in 1813, in the naming of '' Dumontia'', which is a genus of red algae belonging to the family Dumontiaceae.

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* 1758 births 1830 deaths French ornithologists French zoologists {{ornithologist-stub