Urosticte benjamini (1 Viewer)

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Note McCoy's text in the weekly Newspaper The Australian...

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Purple-bibbed Whitetip Urosticte benjamini Bourcier, 1851 (See Leadbeater, J.B.)

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Southern Ground-hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri Vigors, 1825
Leadbeater's Cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateri Vigors, 1831 [Alt. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo; Syn. Lophochroa leadbeateri]
Leadbeater's Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri Bourcier, 1843 [Alt. Violet-fronted Brilliant]
Benjamin Leadbeater (1773–1851) was an English taxidermist and dealer in natural objects, as well as an ornithologist. His son John Leadbeater (1800–1856) was his partner in the business located in central London. Vigors (q.v.) described the hornbill and cockatoo from specimens in Leadbeater's collection. Bourcier refers only to 'M. (= Monsieur) Leadbeater', so could be referring to either Benjamin or John. He wrote that Leadbeater possessed one of the best collections of hummingbird specimens. Leadbeater's grandson John (q.v.) was also a taxidermist.

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Helmeted Honeyeater Ptilotis leadbeateri McCoy, 1867 NCR [Alt. Yellow-tufted Honeyeater; JSLichenostomus melanops cassidix]
Fig Parrot sp. Cyclopsittaleadbeateri McCoy, 1875 [Alt. Double-eyed Fig-Parrot; Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana]
John Leadbeater (1832-1888) followed in the footsteps of his grandfather Benjamin (q.v.) and became chief taxidermist at the National Museum, Melborne (1858). Gould (q.v.) originally named the honeyeater Ptilotis cassidix, but the same year it was named Ptilotis leadbeateri by Frederick McCoy; Gould was first so his name has priority, but John Leadbeater is also remembered in the name of Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, which appears on the Coat of Arms of the State of Victoria.

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Leadbeater’s Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, 1867
John Leadbeater (1831–1888) was Chief Taxidermist at the National Museum, Melbourne, Australia, from 1858. His claim to fame is that
he stuffed the first known specimen of this possum, which had been found in forests near Melbourne. The species was thought to have
become extinct in the early 20th century but was then rediscovered in 1961. It now appears on the coat of arms of the state of Victoria. Still endangered, the possum is restricted to pockets of mountain ash forests in the highlands of Victoria, Australia

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