René Maugé (born in 1757 - died 20 February 1802) was a French

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. René Maugé was born in 1757 in Cély-en-Bière, in the Seine-et-Marne department near Paris, France. Nothing is known of his life prior to May 1794. In that month, he started work at the Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, learning taxidermy and studying natural history (Jangoux 2009: 30). Maugé was trained by Louis Dufresne (1752-1832) who taught him to skin birds properly. Aged 39, he joined the first government-supported expedition captained by

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towards Tenerife, St. Thomas, St. Croix and Puerto Rico (1796-1798) (Jangoux 2009: 30). The voyage was a success and 296 bird specimens collected by Maugé were brought back; 140+ specimens still survive. Aged 42, (Horner 1987: 400) he again left with Baudin on a

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to Tenerife, Mauritius, Australia and Timor with the corvette ''Le Géographe'' and the store-ship ''Le Naturaliste'' which left Le Havre on 19 October 1800. Maugé was appointed by Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, director of the MNHN, as one of the official expedition zoologists. He died on board the ''Le Géographe'' when it was off the coast of Tasmania on 20 February 1802. He was buried on

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(Baudin 1974: 340).

Zoological tributes

* '' Aratinga chloroptera maugei'', Puerto Rican conure, taxonomic authority Charles de Souancé, 1856. * '' Dicaeum maugei'', the blue-cheeked flowerpecker, taxonomic authority

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1830. * '' Geopelia maugeus'', barred dove, taxonomic authority Coenraad Jacob Temminck, 1809. * '' Testacella maugei'', species of carnivorous

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, taxonomic authority

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, 1819.

References

* Jangoux, M. 2009. Journal du voyage aux Antilles de La Bella Angélique (1796-1798). Presses de L’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris. * Horner, F. 1987. The French reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1803-1803. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Jansen, J. J. F. J. 2017. René Maugé’s ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2): 467-492. DOI 10.3897/zse.93.19964
French zoologists National Museum of Natural History (France) people 1757 births 1802 deaths Place of birth unknown {{France-zoologist-stub