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Birds described in 1869 include Hartlaub's spurfowl, subantarctic shearwater, Himalayan vulture, Palani laughingthrush, Anchieta's barbet and the long-tailed myna.
Birds described in 1873 include the white-browed tit-warbler, Bartlett's tinamou, Von Schrenck's bittern, Raggiana bird-of-paradise, spangled coquette, Sangihe hanging parrot and the white-crowned penduline tit.
Birds described in 1892 include the Laysan honeycreeper, Abyssinian crimsonwing, Chatham raven, black oriole, Tullberg's woodpecker, spotted nightjar, Hose's broadbill, Bolivian earthcreeper, Chubb's cisticola, greater ground robin, streak-throated hermit, green-breasted bushshrike and the Gough moorhen.
References
- ↑ See notes in references from The Humming Bird and The Ibis.
- Boucard, Adolphe (1895). "Henry Whitely". The Humming Bird: A Quarterly Scientific, Artistic and Industrial Review. Band 5. Note: This source gives the date of death as "11th of July, 1893".
- "Obituary: Henry Whitely". The Ibis. Band 5, Nr. 18, 1893, S. 287–288. Note: This source gives the date of death as "11th of July last year" (in April 1893).
- Salvin, Osbert & Sclater, Philip (1869). "On Peruvian birds collected by Mr Whitely". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 592–596.
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