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1802 in birding and ornithology
Johann Matthäus Bechstein
Ornithologisches Taschenbuch
1802âÂÂ1803.
Matthew Flinders
discovered the soon to be extinct
Kangaroo Island emu
George Montagu
publishes
Ornithogical Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds
Louis Dufresne
popularized the use of
arsenical soap
for preserving birds in an article in
Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle
a technique which had enabled the Muséum to build the greatest collection of birds in the world.
John Latham
published
Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae
. In this work he scientifically describes the
noisy miner
, the
white-tailed tropicbird
, the
azure kingfisher
, the
rufous whistler
and the
scarlet honeyeater
amongst many other birds.
The
white-naped honeyeater
described by
Louis Pierre Vieillot
and
Jean Baptiste Audebert
in
Oiseaux dorés, ou àreflets métalliques