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Kaupifalco Bonaparte, 1854 OD sér.2:t.6 (1854) - Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Kaupornis Bonaparte, 1854 OD ser.4:t.1 (1854) - Annales des sciences naturelles - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Arses kaupi Gould, 1851 OD supplement volume (1869) - The birds of Australia, supplement - Biodiversity Heritage Library
...my friend Dr. Kaup of Darmstadt,...

Casuarius kaupi Rosenberg, 1861 Jahrg.9=no.49-54 (1861) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library see also 1866 - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Leucopternis kaupi Bonaparte, 1850 OD sér.2:t.2 (1850) - Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée - Biodiversity Heritage Library or t.1 (1850) - Conspectus generum avium - Biodiversity Heritage Library ?
Zebrapicus kaupii Malherbe, 1862 t.2 (1862) - Monographie des picidées, ou Histoire naturelle des picidés, picumninés, yuncinés ou torcols - Biodiversity Heritage Library or Bonaparte 1853 sér.2:t.5 (1853) - Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Picus kaupi Harlaub, 1852 OD sér.2:t.4 (1852) - Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée - Biodiversity Heritage Library

I am not sure what syn. Casuarius bennetti is.

Lizard Buzzard genus Kaupifalco Bonaparte, 1854
Tyrant Flycatcher genus Kaupornis Bonaparte , 1854 NCR [Now in Myiarchus]
White-browed Hawk Leucopternis kaupi Bonaparte , 1850 NCR [JS Leucopternis kuhli]
Kaup's Flycatcher Arses kaupi Gould , 1851 [Alt. Pied Monarch]
Johann Jakob von Kaup (1803—1873) was a German zoologist, ornithologist and palaeontologist who was the Director of the Grand Duke's natural history 'cabinet' in Darmstadt. He wrote Classification der Säugethiere und Vögel (1844). An amphibian is named after him.

Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist (Arses, syn. Casuarius bennetti, syn. Casuarius unappendiculatus, syn. Leucopternis kuhli, syn. Veniliornis lignarius).


KAUPIFALCO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Lizard Buzzard K. monogrammicus) Portmanteau of surname Kaup (after Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist) and genus Falco Linnaeus, 1758, falcon; "e. Buteoneæ. ... 30. KAUPIFALCO, Bp. — 87. monogrammicus, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854); "Kaupifalco Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zoöl. (2), 6, 1854, p. 533. Type, by monotypy, Falco monogrammicus Temminck." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 243).
Synon. Asturinula.


kaupii
Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist (syn. Melanerpes uropygialis).


Kaupornis
(Tyrannidae; syn. Myiarchus Stolid Flycatcher M. stolidus) Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "Tyranneæ ... *1386. Capnixus, Bp. - *1387. Sayornis, Bp. - *1388. Kaupornis, Bp. - 1389. Myiarchus, Bp. - 1390. Myiacleptes, Caban." (Bonaparte 1854); "[APPENDIX] 812c. (2346.) KAUPORNIS, Pr. B. 1854. (Tyrannus stolidus, Gosse.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Kaupornis BONAPARTE, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, (4) Zool., 1, p. 133, 1854 (nomen nudum); GRAY, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 146, 1855—.type Tyrannus stolidus GOSSE." (Hellmayr, 1927, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. V, p. 159).

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Potomotyphlus kaupii (Berthold, 1859) OD 1859: Nachrichten von der Georg-Augusts-Universität und der Königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

P.S. His daughter was discussed here Natalie's Sapsucker
 
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His signature (from here) :

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He was also called "T. T." (in the same journal) here.

Your two links are to two parts of the same paper. The first part starts with a prefatory note (by Jardine?), which explains that this "Monograph of the Falconidae", by Dr. "T. T." Kaup, is a translated and improved version of a work the author had published in 1847 in Isis. The original is fairly easy to trace: it was titled "Monographien der Genera der Falconidae" and was authored by J. J. Kaup.

Also noteworthy :
  • On p. 72-5 of this first part, "T. T." Kaup complained about a "recent renowned anatomist" there called "T. Müller", who he presented as having asked "Where is a fish swimming which sets not at nought all our systems ?" In 1877, J. J. Kaup attributed the same quote, in German, "Wo mag wohl der Fisch schwimmen, der alle unsere Systeme zu Schanden macht !" to Johannes Müller.
  • On p. 56 of the second part, the two species placed in the genus Ieracidea are listed as "T." berigora and "T." novae zeelandiae.
All in all, what this suggests to me, is that the British editors and/or typographers who had to deal with his manuscripts were prone to easily misread his J's (1742837031219.png) and I's (1742837355337.png) (which were essentially indistinguishable from one another) as T.

As I noted above, his son was August Carl Otto, thus he was certainly not a "T. T."
 
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