William Swainson - Common Names of Species Named After William Swainson

Common Names of Species Named After William Swainson

Many birds retain a common name after Swainson, several of which were named by famous naturalists of the period. Many species or subspecies retain his name, although many of his own species were later discredited or merged with others.

  • John James Audubon named Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii
  • Charles Lucien Bonaparte named Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
  • Thomas Nuttall named Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
  • Swainson's Francolin Francolinus swainsonii
  • Swainson's Sparrow Passer swainsonii
  • Swainson's Antcatcher Myrmeciza longipes
  • Swainson's Fire-eye Pyriglena atra
  • Swainson's Flycatcher Myiarchus swainsoni
  • Swainson's Toucan Ramphastos swainsonii

  • Swainson's Warbler

  • Swainson's Hawk

  • Swainson's Thrush

  • Swainson's Toucan

Read more about this topic:  William Swainson

Famous quotes containing the words common, names, species, named and/or william:

    “The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers’ seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “When the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.””
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
    Cried out, Dim sea, hear my most piteous story!
    The sea swept on and cried her old cry still,
    Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill.
    He fled the persecution of her glory....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”
    —Sir William Osler (1849–1919)