Émile Deville (25 January 1824 – 8 January 1853) was a
French
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physician,
naturalist and
taxidermist.
Emile Deville, already an employee of
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, joined the 1843 expedition of
Francis de Laporte de Castelnau
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(1810-1880) to
South America with the doctor and
botanist
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Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819-1877). He returned with many bird specimens, especially
parrots, including two new species,
Bonaparte's parakeet and the
dusky-headed parakeet, which he described in 1851. He also described, with
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, the
white-tailed titi, and with de Castelnau, some
crabs.
A number of species bear his name, such as the
blaze-winged parakeet, ''Pyrrhura devillei'' and the
striated antbird
The striated antbird (''Drymophila devillei'') is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Taxonomy and systematics
The stri ...
, ''Drymophila devillei''.
The following are a few of the writings that are attributed to Deville:
* ''Description de quelques Mammifères et Oiseaux nouveaux de L'Amérique méridionale'' - Description of some new mammals and birds from South America.
* ''Note sur quatre espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux provenant de l'expédition de M. Castelnau'' - Note on four new species of birds from the Castelnau expedition.
* ''Considérations sur les avantages de la naturalisation en France de l'alpaca'' - Considerations on the advantages for naturalization of the
alpaca in France.
WorldCat Identities
(publications)
References
*Edward Julius Goodman, 1992 ''The Explorers of South America'' University of Oklahoma Press
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19th-century French physicians
French naturalists
French zoologists
French ornithologists
1853 deaths
1824 births