Dr Burrough's Vulture (1 Viewer)

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Just to be safe, here's a quick look at the Scientific name ...

burrovianus as in:
• the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (a k a Savannah Vulture) Cathartes burrovianus CASSIN 1845 (here), as "C. [Cathartes] Burrovianus":

This new species was obtained in the vincity [sic – probably a typo/printers error (for vicinity)] of Vera Cruz, by the late M. Burrough, M. D., in honor of whom I have named it, as a slight acknowledgement for his very valuable services to Natural History and to this Academy.

In today's Key explained as [my blue bolds]:

burroviana / burrovianus
Dr Marmaduke Burrough (1798-1844) US physician, Consul to Vera Cruz, Mexico 1840, naturalist, collector in Mexico and the Far East (Cathartes, ...

... which is somewhat different (at least regarding his Birth) to what we're told in the Book Los Nombres de las Aves de Venezuela ..., by Verea, Calvo & Pacheco (2018)*, in which we find the following claim for (nominate) Cathartes b. burrovianus:

... en honor a Marmaduke Burrough (1767– 1844).

With the added Note:

... pasó la mayor parte de su vida en el servicio diplomático, como Cónsul de los Estados Unidos en Lima, Perú; Calcuta, India; y Veracruz, México. Fue además miembro de la “Academy of Natural Sciencies” de Filadelfia, donde presentó un espécimen del Oripopo Cabeza Amarilla menor colectado por él mismo (1844) en México (Beolens et al. 2014: 99; Mouchard 2015).

Also compare (incl. the latter reference) with Alejandro Mouchard's Book Etimología de los nombres científicos de las aves de Argentina (**) , from 2019, where we find the following explanation (and yet another Birth year!?!):

168. Cathartes burrovianus Cassin, 1845 – Jote cabeza amarilla
burrovianus: de Burrough. ...
[...]
Marmaduke Burrough (1797–1844) nació en Camden, New Jersey, E.E.U.U., hijo de Jehu Burrough y Ann Hollinshead. ...

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Thereby, does anyone who know if he truly was born in "1798", alt. in "1797", or even in "1767" ... ?

Also, if possible, do we know where, preferably also (exactly) when.

To me, those claims (with some 30 years apart) could be a case where there might be a Senior/Junior mix-up ... or not. Maybe it's simply typos/printer's errors, with years/numbers/printer's types, either inverted, or just up-side-down (at some point), ... but even if so, who got it right?

Anyone who knows?

Just curious.

Björn

PS. Note, I haven't checked this guy (at all), and I haven't dug any deeper than what's shown above. I simply observed, and noticed, the discrepancies above (while looking for completely different guys, and birds). Neither he, nor "his" Vulture/s, are included in my MS (actually not even in my notes), simply as this species is called savanngam in Swedish [in line with its alternate English name, which is far (far) easier to explain, at least the savann/Savannah part (gam = Vulture)]

The genealogical research (on this guy) I gladly leave in more capable hands.

Good luck pin-pointing him!

/B

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*Verea, C., E. J. Calvo & M. A. Pacheco. 2018. Los Nombres de las Aves de Venezuela: Comunes, Científicos, Aborígenes. Primera Parte: No Passeriformes. Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela.
**Mouchard, A. 2019 Etimología de los nombres científicos de las aves de Argentina : su significado y origen. 1 Edition. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Fundación de Historia Natural Félix de Azara, pp. 1–389.

 

[PScofield]

Marmaduke Burrough

Birth 30 Nov. 1797 Camden, New Jersey, USA
Death 17 Feb. 1844 Burlington, New Jersey, USA

Graduated University of Pennsylvania 1820

He brought the first Rhino to the US in 1830

 

[Taphrospilus]

But here Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography he was 77 years at date of death?

 

[l_raty]

But here Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography he was 77 years at date of death?

But on the immediately preceding page, you also find his birth :

Marmaduke Burrough was born Nov. 30 1797.

...and, just over 9 months before this, the marriage of his parents :

Jehu Burrough married Ann Hollinshead daughter of Jacob & Mary Hollinshead Feb. 10. 1797.

This is not compatible with his death and age at death being :

Marmaduke Burroughs M. D. 1st. son of Jehu Sr. and Anna died Feb. 10. 1844, at Mount Holly--77 years.

Here List of surviving members of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, he's said to have been 46 when he died.