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Mr Plowden-Wardlaw's (British/Scottish) Bullfinch (1 Viewer)

Björn Bergenholtz

Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")
Sweden
Another guy stumbled upon, with an additional detail (i.e. death year), on ...

wardlawi as in:
• the invalid "Pyrrhula pyrrhula wardlawi" CLANCEY 1947, here (a synonym of Pyrrhula pyrrhula pileata MACGILLIVRAY 1837, from the British Isles)
Obtained by W. J. Plowden-Wardlaw at Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland, on 2 June, 1946.
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= Wilfred James Plowden-Wardlaw (1905–1993), ... and onwards.

Disclaimer: Based only on the text below:
The study skin collection is of note as a large portion of that held in the Scarborough Collections originated from the collection of Wilfred James Plowden-Wardlaw (1905-1993), a British-born naturalist who collected birds from all five continents. He spent most of his time in Scotland and British Columbia from which places most of the Scarborough Collection derives.

[Scarborough museum trust, here, p.32]​
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Thereby; take it for what it´s worth!

Björn
 
Birds of British Columbia says "Wilfred J. Plowden-Wardlaw lived in Vancouver from 1940 to 1945 and from 1960 to the present." I have seen him described as a lawyer.
 
I can add: Plowden-Wadslaw sent specimens from Grenada and the West Indies to the Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Possibly he collected at Barbados.

He published:
1944. Northern extension of Canon Wren in British Columbia. Murrelet, 25 (3): 46; 2).
1953. The birds of Barbados.
 
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