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 27f5c2ae-1d4d-4f0e-b33a-13620b3d69df 2513-9894 11637476 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 .