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As we can read here p. 259:
On p. 264 he wrote:
And here we can read:
So I am wondering if William Eves Moore (1823-1899) here may have been e.g. on missionary or archelogical trip for some time in South America? Nevertheless I found no final evidence that he was. But maybe just a guess to find more on this gentlemen or another potential William E. Moore.
PS. Here he is written as Rev. WM. E. MOORE (as George Newbold Lawrence did).
William E. Moore (fl. 1857) explorer in Amazonia (subsp. Phaethornis malaris).
As we can read here p. 259:
I have named this species after its discoverer, Mr. Wm. E. Moore, as a tribute to his enterprise and indefatigable perseverance in accomplishing a journey acrosss the entire continent of South America near the Equator, unaided, and for a great portion of the way unaccompanied, except by Indian guides.
On p. 264 he wrote:
The above described Humming-Birds from part of the collection (now in my possecion) by Mr. Wm. E. Moore, on his recent travels in South America. The subjoined extract from one of his letters will give the locality where they were obtained:--
"The Humming Birds I gave you were all collected between the head waters of the Napo and Quito; this journey was performed on foot, three hundred miles through a dense forest, at base of the Bolivian range of the Andes"
And here we can read:
A specimen of the monkey (U.S. N. M. No. 3332) collected by William E. Moore in 1857 somewhere along the Río Napo in eastern Ecuador has yallowish underparts and a golden brown patch.
So I am wondering if William Eves Moore (1823-1899) here may have been e.g. on missionary or archelogical trip for some time in South America? Nevertheless I found no final evidence that he was. But maybe just a guess to find more on this gentlemen or another potential William E. Moore.
PS. Here he is written as Rev. WM. E. MOORE (as George Newbold Lawrence did).
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