Circus maillardi Verreaux 1862 (1 Viewer)

[Taphrospilus]

Circus maillardi Verreaux 1862 in:
Maillard L. 1862. Notes sur l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Dentu, Paris.

pt.1-2 (1862) - Notes sur l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon) - Biodiversity Heritage Library

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...But this is not a fossil, it's an extent species.

...plaisir de la dédier à M. Maillard, qui le premier a parfaitement distingué cet oiseau du Circus Melanoleucus des auteurs, avec lequel tous les ornithologistes l'avaient confondu.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Réunion Harrier Circus maillardi J. Verreaux, 1862
Louis Maillard (1814–1865) was a French engineer and botanist who wrote Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion (1862), on which island (1854) he discovered the remains of a now-extinct species of giant tortoise.

The Key to Scientific Names

Louis Maillard (1814-1865) French engineer on Réunion, botanist (Circus).

If this page here is correct his full name is

Maillard, Louis Gaspard Dominique (1814-1865)

Would fit to here

Louis-Gaspard-Dominique Maillard (1814-1865) est un cousin de Manceau , ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées à Réunion.

Here an obituary. But shouldn't be 25. January 1864 his death?

Admis à la retraite, il ya quelques années, il vint s'établir à Paris, où il est mort le 25 janvier dernier, à l'âge de 51 ans.

But it seems 25. January 1865 p. 4 of 21.

At least yet I did not check Archive en ligne for Lagiot for his birth.

Not sure if he should be called only a botanist but also a zoologist.

 

[l_raty]

Here an obituary. But shouldn't be 25. January 1864 his death?

Haven't searched him in the État Civil yet either, but this obit was published in 1865. (On the page preceding it, there is a letter dated "Cayenne, le 29 janvier 1865"?)
"Lundi, 15 février 1864", at the end of the obituary, is quoted from his will. It's not the date of writing of the obit.

 

[Taphrospilus]

I just updated my thread and he died indeed 1865.

If here correct:

Maillard (Louis), né le 29 octobre 1814 à Lagiot (Seine-et-Oise), aspirant conducteur des travaux des Ponts et Chaussées à l' Île Bourbon

Is this L'Agiot?

 

[l_raty]

He is in Léonore: Recherche - Base de données Léonore

There, his birth is indicated at Lagiot (Seine-et-Oise) on the forms of the Légion d'Honneur, but the copy of his birth record says Laverrière.

b. 28 Oct 1814, La Verrière, Yvelines: here, 120/149; see also the list of births on the next image, where his given names are a bit easier to read. In the text, he was just "Louis" followed by something that was crossed out and in unreadable; "Gasepar [sic] Dominique" were added in the margin.

 

[l_raty]

But it seems 25. January 1865 p. 4 of 21.

Actually 24 Jan 1865 ("Du vingt quatre janvier mil huit cent soixante cinq à midi"; "décédé ce jourd'hui à une heure du matin").