Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian

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and

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Biography

Salvadori was born in

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, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethelyn Welby, who was English. His brother Giorgio married their cousin Adele Emiliani (daughter of Giacomo Emiliani and Casson Adelaide Welby) and had five children (Charlie, Robbie, Minnie, Nellie and Guglielmo "Willie"). His nephew Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti married Giacinta Galletti de Cadilhac (daughter of Arturo Galletti de Cadilhac and Margaret Collier) and had three children (Gladys, Massimo "Max" and Gioconda Beatrice "Joyce"). He studied medicine in

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and Rome and graduated in medicine at the

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He participated in

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's military expedition in

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(the

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), serving as a medical officer. He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

in 1879.

The naturalist

Tommaso Salvadori took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862. He was a specialist in birds of Asia. He studied the wide collections of birds of these regions held by the

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria is a natural history museum in Genoa, northern Italy. It is named after the naturalist Giacomo Doria, who was the founder and the curator for over forty years. The museum was founded in 1867 and c ...

and the collections of East Indian birds at Paris, London, Berlin and Leyden. In 1880, he was on leave to the

British Museum of Natural History The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum ...

in London to work on three volumes of their ''Catalogue of the Birds''.

Salvadori's pheasant Salvadori's pheasant (''Lophura inornata'') is a landfowl bird of genus '' Lophura'', native to Indonesia. It is found in the mountain rainforests of Sumatra. Thus it is also known as the Sumatran pheasant. The Hoogerwerf's pheasant is usually ...

('' Lophura inornata'') is named after him, as is also the crocodile monitor (''

Varanus salvadorii ''Varanus salvadorii'', also known as the crocodile monitor, Papuan monitor and Salvadori's monitor, is a species of monitor lizard endemic to New Guinea. It is the largest monitor lizard known from New Guinea, and is one of the longest lizards ...

'' ),Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Salvadori", p. 232). which is also commonly known as Salvadori's monitor, the Papua monitor, or the artelia. Many other species of birds are named after him, for example, Salvadori's fig parrot '' Psittaculirostris salvadorii'', Yellow-capped pygmy parrot ('' Micropsitta keiensis''), Salvadori nightjar ('' Caprimulgus pulchellus''), Salvadori's antwren ('' Myrmotherula minor''), Salvadori's eremomela ('' Eremomela salvadorii''), Salvadori's seedeater ('' Serinus xantholaemus''), Salvadori's teal (''

Salvadorina waigiuensis Salvadori's teal (''Salvadorina waigiuensis'') or Salvadori's duck, is a species of bird endemic to New Guinea. It is placed in the monotypic genus ''Salvadorina''. It has a dark brown head and neck, and its body is barred and spotted dark brown ...

'') and others. He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.

Works

partial list * ''Monografia del Gener Ceyx Lacépède''. Torino (1869) (Atti della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino) * ''Nuove specie di uccelli dei generi ''Criniger'', ''Picus'' ed ''Homoptila'' Nov. Gen.''. Torino (1871) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Intorno al ''Cypselus horus'' ''. Torino (1872) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) coautore: O. Antinori * ''Intorno ad un nuovo genere di ''Saxicola'' ''. Torino (1872) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) coautore: O. Antinori * ''Nuova specie del Genere ''Hyphantornis'' ''. Torino (1873) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Di alcune specie del Genere ''Porphyrio'' Briss.''. Torino (1879) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche''. Torino (1879) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Osservazioni intorno ad alcune specie del Genere ''Collocalia'' G.R. Gr.''. Torino (1880) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Collezioni ornitologiche fatte nelle isole del Capo Verde da Leonardo Fea''. Annali Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2) 20: 1–32. (1889) * ''Catalogue of the Psittaci, or parrots, in the collection of the British museum''. London (1891) * ''Catalogue of the Columabe, or pigeons, in the collection of the British museum''. London (1893) * ''Catalogue of the Chenomorphae (Palamedeae, Phoenicopteri, Anseres) Crypturi and Ratitae in the collection of the British Museum''. London (1895) * ''Due nuove specie di Uccelli dell'Isola di S. Thomé e dell'Isola del Principe raccolte dal sig. Leonardo Fea''. Bollettino della Società dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino (1901) * ''Uccelli della Guinea Portoghese raccolti da

Leonardo Fea Leonardo Fea (Turin 24 July 1852 – Turin 27 April 1903) was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter, and naturalist. Biography Fea was born in Turin, a son of Paolo Fea, who was professor of painting at Accademia Albertina, and Anna Roda. In ...

''. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (1901) * ''Caratteri di due nuove specie di Uccelli di Fernando Po''. Bollettino della Società dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino (1903) * ''Contribuzioni alla ornitologia delle Isole del Golfo di Guinea''. Memorie della Reale Academia delle Scienze di Torino, serie II, tomo LIII (1903) ** I – Uccelli dell'Isola del Principe ** II – Uccelli dell'Isola di San Thomé ** III – Uccelli di Anno-Bom e di Fernando Po

Bibliography

* P. Passerin D'Entreves, A. Rolando, C. Violani ''Tommaso Salvadori nel centocinquantenario della nascita (1835–1923)'', Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, II-56 3/4 133 (1986). * E. Arrigoni Degli Oddi ''Cenni sulla vita e sulle opere di Tommaso Salvadori'', Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, I-6 2 66 (1923–24). * G. Zanazzo, C. Violani, M. Pandolfi ''Studio della Collezione ornitologica personale di Tommaso Salvadori conservata a Fermo''. Atti VII Convegno Nazionale di Ornitologia, Suppl. Ric.Biol. Selvaggina, XXII:15–21 (1995). * M. Pandolfi, C. Violani, G. Zanazzo ''L'opera scientifica di Tommaso Salvadori''. Città di Fermo, Fermo: 1–7 (1994).

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