Richard Klim
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Forthcoming...
Beolens, Watkins & Grayson 2014. The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Christopher Helm.
[Note that the catalogue gives the publication date as March 2014, but the Bloomsbury website currently gives 19 June 2014.]
Beolens, Watkins & Grayson 2014. The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Christopher Helm.
Considerably expanded wrt Beolens & Watkins 2003 (Whose Bird?), now covering scientific names (including genera and subspecies) in addition to common names.A comprehensive dictionary listing all the people whose names are commemorated in the English and scientific names of birds.
Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl, Swainson's Thrush, Steller's Eider or Brünnich's Guillemot. But few people today will have even heard of Albertina's Myna, Barraband's Parrot, Guerin's Helmetcrest or Savigny's Eagle Owl. This extraordinary new work lists more than 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species and subspecies of birds. Every taxon with an eponymous vernacular or scientific name (whether in current usage or not) is listed, followed by a concise biography of the person concerned. The text is punctuated with intriguing or little-known facts, unearthed in the course of the authors' extensive research.
Hardback – 576pp – March 2014 – Price £50.00
[Note that the catalogue gives the publication date as March 2014, but the Bloomsbury website currently gives 19 June 2014.]