It's a bit premature (as I haven't dug into it at any depth), but just to save anyone some unnecessary work, and as this thread is already started, I will post what I have in my notes about the fairly unknown British collector Mr. T. V. Fox (1879–1918), stationed in Uganda between 1908 and 1918 ... (some of it already posted in my #2)
He is commemorated in the Common/Vernacular English name:
• Fox's Weaver, for
Ploceus spekeoides GRANT & MACKWORTH-PRAED 1947 (
here), no English name, no dedication, but:
Type.—In the British Museum. Adult male, Ngariam, Teso, central Uganda, July 30, 1913. Collected by T. V. Fox, for ...
The first use of the English name Fox's Weaver seems to be in
African Handbook of Birds/
Birds of Eastern and North Eastern Africa, by (the same Authors) Mackworth-Praed & Grant, in. vol. 2, 1955 (p.893), though without any explanation (nor an out-spoken dedication).
Also commemorated in the invalid scientific name:
• "
Calamornis foxi" W. L. SCLATER 1927 (
here) [a synonym of
Acrocephalus rufescens ansorgei HARTERT 1906]:
A male collected by Mr. T. V. Fox at Lake Maraye in Kigezi District, S. W. Uganda, on 8 January 1911, and ...
Apparently Mr Fox was of the British Administrative Service, stationed in Uganda 1908-1918 (he died 31 May 1918). See
The Uganda Journal 20 (2), 1956, (
here; p.108, see footnote, pre postscript).
He also, for example, collected the Holotype of the Papyrus Canary (
Serinus)
Crithagra koliensis MACKWORTH-PRAED & GRANT 1952 (
here), as "
Serinus capistratus koliensis"... on the 13th of March 1910, in the same Uganda.
Note: Once again the book
Whose Bird? (
Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds), by Beolens and Watkins (2003), is in error (sigh!), as their candidate; the British Professor in Zoology "Harold Munro Fox" [he was of German Heritage, born
Fuchs] (1889–1967), wasn't even close to Uganda in those years. If ever!? In 1913 Harold Munro Fox was newly employed by the
Royal College of Science, stationed in London. Either way, the same Authors came to a more appropriate conclusion in their book
The Eponym Dictionary of Birds, 2014 (
here).
That's what I've got this far.
Now; let's compare notes.
Björn
PS. And beware of all the other Foxes (either on TV, or on two, or four legs) that anyone will find if/when trying to search for him ... neither the British Commander Thomas Fox-Pitt (1897–1989), who served in the Colonial Administrative Service, in Northern Rhodesia (1927–51), nor with the two Missionary Brothers George T. Fox and John C. Fox (commemorated in some Rodents), who were active in Nigeria in the early 1910's.
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