Tangara arnaulti Berlioz, 1927 (1 Viewer)

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Tangara arnaulti Berlioz, 1927 OD Jean Berlioz: Description d'une espèce nouvelle d'oiseau de la famille des Tanagridés, Revue d'histoire naturelle appliqué: Oiseau et la revue française d'ornithologie, 8 (3), pp. 94-96 OD here (but only extract)

Or, le Muséum d'Histoire naturelle a reçu récemment, en don de M. le docteur Arnault, un spécimen de Tangara , qui paraît bien représenter un type encore inédit: cet Oiseau était arrivé vivant, parmi tout un lot d'Oiseaux sud-américains et il vécut quelque temps dans les volières du docteur Arnault, qui n'a pu malheureusement obtenir aucun renseignement précis sur sa patrie originelle.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Arnault's Tanager Tangara arnaulti Berlioz, 1927 [Presumed hybrid Tangara cayana x T. preciosa]
Dr Charles Arnault (DNF) was a French aviculturist who lived in southern Algeria (1930–1933). The tanager is only known from one aviary specimen and most authorities consider it to be a hybrid.

The Key to Scientific Names

Dr Charles Arnault (fl. 1933) French aviculturalist (Tangara cayana x Tangara preciosa).

Maybe it is time to through some light on his life dates? For sure he still lived in 1938 here. There was a...

Charles Arnault , Conservateur du Musée de CHOLET Gaston Astre , Faculté des Sciences , TOULOUSE

But no idea if he is the same person. More on him here.

 

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I can find:

Victor Charles Arnould (1874-1951)

Birth:	June 12 1874 Mostaganem, Algeria
Death:	Apr 27 1951 Oran, Algeria

But no evidence he was the man and after all the spelling is different. I doubt the musician and historian is our man either. I doubt the Tanager was being held in captivity in Algeria and suspect that Arnault was only in Algeria breifly. An early paper on herons by a Charles Arnault is from Nantes but then again Arnault is a Brittan name. I suspect that the Charles Arnault living in Ghardaia (which is in northern central Algeria) mentioned in several German ornithological accounts must be some one else. Their is also a missionary of the same name living in Algiers in 1905.

 

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Sure Ghardaia makes sense e.g. La Terre et la vie - vol 73 - page 171:

Une lettre de M. le docteur Arnault , adressée de Ghardaïa à M. Debreuil , est également lue par M. le président ; M. le docteur Arnault se propose d'envoyer pour le Déjeuner amical de notre Société des Lézards fouette - queue...

Or could it be him here died around 4 February 1936? Would be him here Henri Ferdinand Charles Arnault (6 August 1868 in Cahors - 1 February 1936). See Léonore.

BORDEAUX. — On annonce le décès de M. Charles Arnault, préfet honoraire de la Gironde

At least some of his publications:

• ARNAULT ( Dr C. ) . Le Cratérope fauve ( Crateropus fulvus ) ( Rev. d'hist . nat . appl . , 2 ° partie 18-
• ANAULT ( Dr C. ) . Les petits Echassiers en captivité
• ARNAULT ( D Ch . ) . Nomenclature des oiseaux du M'Zab ( Rev. d'hist . nat . appl . , 2 ° partie , décembre 1927 , p . 369-371
• ARNAULT ( Dr C. ) . Reproduction en captivité du Bruant striolé ( Emberiza striolata sahari)
• Arnault, C., (1931). Les traquets du Sud-Algérien . La Terre et la vie, 526-538.
• Arnault, C. 1949. Danse nuptiale de l’Outarde houbara. C. R. séances Soc. Sci. nat. Maroc 15 : 5-9
• Arnault, C. 1950. Le Pic mar au Maroc (Dendrocopos medius). L’Oiseau et la R.F.O. 20 : 274.

With this I would exclude the préfet honoraire de la Gironde
Or here

M. le Dr ARNAULT, Secrétaire général de la Société des Amis du Muséum , a donné sa démission .

I think in 1918 here he lived in Nogent-sur-Marne. Confirmed by here or here


According to filae it could be that he is born at least Département Val-de-Marne and probably died in Paris. Unfortunatelly not good to read here but something like:

ARNAULT (Dr. Charles) [et Mme née Marguerite Bailloul (or Bailloud) avenue de la

 

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unfortunatelly not good to read here but something like:

I think -

[et Mme née Marguerite Baillou]

 

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• Arnault, C. 1949. Danse nuptiale de l’Outarde houbara. C. R. séances Soc. Sci. nat. Maroc 15 : 5-9
• Arnault, C. 1950. Le Pic mar au Maroc (Dendrocopos medius). L’Oiseau et la R.F.O. 20 : 274

Has anyone access to one or both of this publications? Maybe a hint where he lived at that time?

 

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Has anyone access to one or both of this publications? Maybe a hint where he lived at that time?

The second one is signed "Dr Ch. Arnault, Rabat."

L'Oiseau et la revue française d'ornithologie

books.google.com

 

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So there is a chance that he died in Morocco.

 

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Still around in 1952 here Oiseaux de cage

 

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His death was announced in C. R. Séances Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc : Comptes rendus des séances mensuelles

Notre collègue le docteur ARNAULT est décédé à Rabat, le 28 janvier dernier ; le Dr NAIN, MM. SAUVAGE et ZABORSKI, représentaient la Société aux obsèques.

This is a multi-volume file (grouping volumes 16-19), so the year cannot be determined directly from the above quote alone, but :

• this page's header (Comptes rendus des séances mensuelles) appears to tell :

SOCIÉTÉ DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DU MAROC
(Comptes-rendus des séances mensuelles : 1953, n°2)​

• Google Books also has the same text in another file, which groups volumes 19-23 (see this -- no snippet shows the text in this second file, but it is clearly there), which in turn implies the note must have been in vol. 19; they date the file with vol. 16-19 to 1950 and that with vol. 19-23 to 1953, which presumably represents the dates of publication of the first included volume of each file; also, as the journal started being published in 1935 (see WorldCat), volume 19 would indeed be expected to have appeared in 1953.

Thus it seems he died in Rabat, Morocco, on 28 Jan 1953.

 

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here we clearly have Charles living in Rabat in 1950.

 

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Am I correct we do not have his birth? He was a doctor of medicine here

ARNAULT Charles , docteur en médecine , correspondant du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , 7 , rue de Douaumont , Rabat , présenté par MM . Marçais et NÉMETH .

Maybe with his MD thesis any progress?

 

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I think in 1918 here he lived in Nogent-sur-Marne. Confirmed by here or here

Charles Paul Louis ARNAULT.

b. in Richelieu (Indre-et-Loire), 28 Jun 1873: here, cote 6NUM8/196/018, 43/305.
m. (1) Fernande Julia Testu, in Château-Renault (Indre-et-Loire), 17 Jan 1901: see his birth record + here, cote 6NUM8/063/030, 3/194; divorced 19 Jan 1916.
m. (2) Francine Marguerite Baillou, in Paris, 9e Arrondissement, 22 Aug 1916: see his birth record + here, cote 9M 292, 30/31.
residing, with his second wife, in Nogent-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), 50bis av. de la Belle Gabrielle, in 1926: here (census, with birth year & location), cote D2M8 348, 88/652.
d. in Rabat (Morocco), 22 Jan 1953: see his birth record.

 

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Notes:

• In his birth record, he was given as "Charles Louis Paul" in the margin, but as "Charles Paul Louis" in the text; I initially gave him as "Charles Louis Paul" but, as he was "Charles Paul Louis" in his two marriage records as well, the latter should presumably be treated as the correct version. I have edited post #12 accordingly.
• In his second marriage record, he was given as an industrialist in addition to a doctor; in the 1926 census, he was only given as an industrialist.