Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy
Author
Ghiraldi, Luca
Author
Aimassi, Giorgio
text
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club
2019
2019-03-15
139
1
28
45
journal article
298440
10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2
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KOFIAU PARADISE-KINGFISHER
Tanysiptera ellioti
VU
Tanysiptera ellioti
Sharpe, 1870
MZUT
AV10056
; previously mounted; adult female;
Indonesia
,
West Papua
,
Kofiau Island
,
August 1875
; collected by
A. A. Bruijn
and donated by
G. Doria
in 1882
.
Remarks
.—This specimen is one of the
two females
referred to by ‘d–e’ in
Salvadori (1880: 448)
. It was donated to the museum by Giacomo Doria (1840–1913) (
Salvadori 1915
), the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale ‘Giacomo Doria’, Genova (
Italy
), and was collected by Antoine Augustus Bruijn (1842–90), a Dutch navy officer, naturalist and trader in natural items from the
Dutch East Indies
. He and his men collected many birds in the
Moluccas
and
West Papua
. Parts of these collections were donated to the Genova museum, where they were studied by Tommaso Salvadori, who in exchange acquired many duplicates for
MZUT
.