Charles de Souancé (2 May 1823 – 23 January 1896) was a French

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

and a

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in the

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, more precisely "Commissaire de la Marine". He made many studies on the ornithological collection of his uncle François Victor Masséna and described several new species of

parrots Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (), are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genus (biology), genera, found mostly in ...

(Psittacidae) in the scientific journal ''Revue et Magazin de Zoologie''. A subspecies of the maroon-tailed parakeet, ''Pyrrhura melanura souancei'', is named for him.

Published works

* ''Description de quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de la famille des psittacidés'', with François Victor Masséna, 1854 – Description of some new species of birds within the family

Psittacidae The Family (biology), family Psittacidae or holotropical parrots is one of three families of true parrots. It comprises the 12 species of subfamily Psittacinae (the Afrotropics, Afrotropical parrots) and 167 of subfamily Arinae (the New World or ...

. * ''Iconographie des perroquets, non figurés dans les publications de Levaillant et de M. Bourjot Saint-Hilaire'', in collaboration with

Charles Lucien Bonaparte Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithology, ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal ...

and Émile Blanchard, Paris : P. Bertrand, 1857.WorldCat Search
publications

References

*Beolens, Bo; & Watkins, Charles. (2003). ''Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People they Commemorate''. Yale University Press: New Haven, Connecticut. French ornithologists 1823 births 1896 deaths {{Ornithologist-stub