Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii (Verreaux, JP 1867) (1 Viewer)

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Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii (Verreaux, JP 1867) OD here

Cette belle espèce que nous devons à l'obligeance de M. Soubeiran, a été découverte dans le nord de la Chine, par. M. Darby, consul de France, auquel nous sommes hereux de pouvoir la dédier.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds

Mrs. Gould's Sunbird ssp. Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii J. Verreaux, 1867
Claude-Philibert Dabry de Thiersant (1826–1898) was French consul at Hankow (one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan, China) and an amateur naturalist. He was particularly interested in ichthyology, , and at least one fish is named after him. The holotype was collect by a Mr Soubiran for Dabry, who passed it to Verreaux.

The Key to Scientific Names

Capt. Claude Philibert Dabry de Thiersant (1826-1898) French Army, Commissioner/Consul in China 1856-1871, Chargé d'Affaires/Minister Plenipotentiary in Guatemala 1878-1884 (subsp. Aethopyga gouldiae).

Birth record Cote 4 E 290 here p. 5/15 (5 April 1826 in Belleville)
Death record Cote 2E1782 here p. 273/448 (4. August 1898 in Lyon 2. Arrondisement)

Several more on him see here Dabry de Thiersant : la médecine chinoise en France - Le Souvenir Francais de Chine

So nothing new just confirming the dates