Ixos fisquetii Eydoux et Souleyet, 1841 (1 Viewer)

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Ixos fisquetii Eydoux et Souleyet, 1841 OD here and plate

Nous le dédions à notre compagnon de voyage, M. Fisquet, enseigne de vaisseau, qui nous a souvent prêté l'assistance de son talent, comme dessinateur, pendant le cours de notre voyage.

Publication history see

See Zimmer 1926.
Birds are pp. 69-132 of Part 1 of the first zoology volume.
There has apparently been some uncertainty about the date of publication of Blainville's article on Chionis on pp. 107-132, which Sherborn thought to have been published later than the rest, while Zimmer did not support this view.
Part 1 was noticed in Bibliographie de la France on 18 Dec 1841 (here), and reported there to be an in-8° of 11.25 sheets. The main text is 132 pp, or 8.25 sheets; it is preceded by half-title and title pages (0.25 sheet), and 39 pp of text paged in Roman numerals, plus a blank page (2.5 sheets). This makes up a total of 11 sheets, which does not exceed the 11.25 sheets reported in Bibliogr. France, so I see not good reasons to think that the publication of a portion of the work was delayed.
I would date the entire bird text to 18 Dec 1841.

The atlas has only French names in it, hence is not relevant for the dating of scientific names.

Not mentioned in The Eponym Dictionary of Birds.

The Key to Scientific Names

Ensign Théodore Auguste Fisquet (1813-1890) French Navy, artist on the La Bonite Expedition 1836-1837 (syn. Pycnonotus priocephalus).

He is often called an Admiral later. I am not sure if he reached that rank.

According Léonore b. 21 April 1813 Var, Toulon

According here death 11 January 1890 in TOULON (Var)

Birth record (Cote 7E146/58) here p. 144/426
Death record (Cote 7E146_401) here p. 74/562

So everything in line. I just opened it as I wrongly interpreted Ensign as an additional name (due to insufficient English skills) and not as a military rank.

Feel free to add any additional on his life.

 

[l_raty]

He is often called an Admiral later. I am not sure if he reached that rank.

He became a Contre-amiral according to his Léonore file and his death record.
This seems to be equivalent to Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. (It's a rank immediately below that of Vice-amiral.)