Hydrornis nipalensis hendeei Bangs & Van Tyne, 1931 (1 Viewer)

[Taphrospilus]

Hydrornis nipalensis hendeei Bangs & Van Tyne, 1931 OD here

The subspecies is named for Russell W. Hendee, member of the expedition and a bird collector of very unusual ability.

Garrulax erythrocephalus hendeei Bangs & Van Tyne, 1930 OD here

This well-marked form is named for the able young naturalist Russell W. Hendee, whose death of tropical fever was a sad blow to his fellow members of the expedition.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Silver-eared Laughingthrush ssp. Trochalopteron melanostigma hendeei Bangs & Van Tyne, 1930 NCR [JS Trochalopteron melanostigma connectans]
Blue-naped Pitta ssp. Hydrornis nipalensis hendeei Bangs & Van Tyne, 1931
Russell W. Hendee (1899–1929) was an American zoologist. He was in Alaska (1921–1922), working for the Colorado Museum of Natural History. He was a member of the Godman-Thomas expedition to Peru (1925) collecting for the British Museum, and was in Indochina with Theodore Roosevelt (q.v.) (1929). Hendee had a tropical fever and went into a delirium, was hospitalised but committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window.

The Key to Scientific Names

Russell W. Hendee (1899-1929) US zoologist, collector in Alaska, Peru and Indochina (subsp. Hydrornis nipalensis, syn. Trochalopteron melanostigma)

His obitiuary here. So only his middle name is missing.

He was born February 5, 1899, in Schuyler, Nebraska, the son of Elizabeth Russell and Reverend Alvin M. Hendee of Hansen, Nebraska

 

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Russell William Hendee

Birth	5 Feb 1899 Schuyler, Colfax, Nebraska, USA
Residence	1910 Delaware, Iowa, USA
Marriage	February 1929 Iquitos, Peru
Death	6 June 1929 • Tiane Viane, Laos, French Indo China

Father	Alvin M. Hendee (1858-1925)

Mother	Elizabeth Evalyn Russell