Prideaux John Selby FRSE FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist. Selby was born in Bondgate...
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Prideaux Selby (baptised 21 December 1747 – 9 May 1813) was an English soldier and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Alnwick, Northumberland...
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Lovebird (category Taxa named by Prideaux John Selby)
aviculture. The genus Agapornis was introduced by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby in 1836. The name combines the Ancient Greek αγάπη agape meaning...
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confused with Twizell Castle), Addestone, near Bambrough. His son Prideaux John Selby (1789–1867), was an eminent naturalist who improved the Twizell property...
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Phaps (category Taxa named by Prideaux John Selby)
Australia. The genus was introduced in 1835 by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby with the common bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) as the type species...
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Australian shelduck (category Taxa named by Prideaux John Selby)
under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby described the Australian shelduck in 1828. The males are mostly dark...
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number of bird species, alone or in conjunction with his friend Prideaux John Selby. He died on 21 November 1874 in Sandown, Isle of Wight. He was married...
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Great bowerbird (category Taxa named by Prideaux John Selby)
Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Ptilonorhynchidae Genus: Chlamydera Species: C. nuchalis Binomial name Chlamydera nuchalis (Jardine & Selby, 1830)...
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Haliastur (category Taxa named by Prideaux John Selby)
voice and plumage. The genus was erected by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby in 1840 with brahminy kite (Haliastur indus) as the type species...
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English soldier and politician Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867), English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist Prideaux baronets, family The ancient...
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