Côme-Damien Degland (6 July 1787 – 1 January 1856, Lille) was a French physician and

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

Biography

Degland was born at

Armentières Armentières (; vls, Armentiers) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille. The motto of the town is ''Pauvre mais fière'' (Poor but proud). Geogr ...

, and lived in

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord ...

for most of his life, where he was the chief of the Hôpital Saint-Sauveur, and where he died. He participated in the founding of the

Lille Natural History Museum Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

, which owed much of its original zoological collection to purchases he made. He published a catalogue of the museums

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

s in 1821, and a two-volume catalogue of the birds of France and Europe in 1849. With

Zéphirin Gerbe Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810 in Bras – 26 June 1890 in Bras) was a French naturalist. He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence (diastataxis) or presence (eutaxy) of the fifth secondary in birds. He was ...

, he was co-author of ''Ornithologie européenne, ou, Catalogue descriptif, analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe'' (second edition, 1867). A bird species, the

white-winged scoter The white-winged scoter (''Melanitta deglandi'') is a large sea duck. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ''melas'' "black" and ''netta'' "duck". The species name commemorates French ornithologist Côme Damien Degland. Description The ...

(''Melanitta deglandi''), is named after Degland.

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1787 births 1856 deaths People from Armentières French zoologists 19th-century French physicians {{France-biologist-stub