, 18th Marquess Hachisuka, was a

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ornithologist and aviculturist.Delacour, J. (1953) The Dodo and Kindred Birds by Masauji Hachisuka (Review). The Condor 55 (4): 223.Peterson, A. P. (2013
Author Index: Hachisuka, Masauji (Masa Uji), marquis
Zoonomen Nomenclatural data. Retrieved 03 February 2017.

Biography

He was the great grandson of the 11th shōgun

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and also nephew of the last shōgun Prince Tokugawa,Perez, C. (2015
A Short History of Philippine Bird Books – Part 6 American Period
Wild Bird Club of the Philippines. Retrieved 03 February 2017. Hachisuka was born in Tokyo in 1903. He moved to

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at the age of nineteen to complete his education and studied zoology for five years at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where his interest in birds grew considerably, much at the encouragement of Dr. Guillemard and A. H. Evans, culminating in his inclusion at the British Ornithologists' Union.N. B. K. (1954) Obituary: The Marquess Hachisuka. Ibis 96 (1): 150. Mannenyama Cemetery 34

Hachisuka went to expeditions in

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(1925),

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(1927) and also

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. After graduating in Cambridge in 1927, he returned to Japan, travelling via the

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along Jean Delacour, with whom he visited China and

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later. In 1928–9, he went to the

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to study the distribution of the local avifauna. The study was published in 1932–3 in the two-volume set "Birds of the Philippine Islands" after returning to

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and working his collection at the

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and at

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. He also wrote extensively on the birds of

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, Iceland,

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and Formosa.Bryant, C. E. (1954) Obituary: Masauji, the Marquess Hachisuka (1903-1953). Emu 54 (1) 79-80. Although he intended to return to Japan after his father's death, as he was needed to take up his position as head of the family, an illness forced him to remain in

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until 1938. There, he married Chiyeko Nagamine, who was from

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, on March 7, 1939; the couple had a daughter. After the war he worked on an account of the birds of the Mascarenes Islands. He died after a brief illness in 1953 in

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, Japan, and his work was published posthumously (''The Dodo and Kindred Birds''). He was also working on a book about the birds of China when he died.

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hachisuka, Masauji 1903 births 1953 deaths Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Hachisuka clan 20th-century Japanese zoologists Japanese ornithologists Scientists from Tokyo