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1833 in birding and ornithology
Death of
Félix Louis L'Herminier
Samuel Tickell
describes new birds from India in the
Journal of
The Asiatic Society of Bengal
. These include the
jungle owlet
,
Tickell's thrush
and the
thick-billed flowerpecker
.
Richard Owen
dissects a specimen of a
great hornbill
noting highly
pneumatized bones
, with hollow air cavities extending to the tips of their wing bones.
Brian Houghton Hodgson
becomes British Resident in Kathmandu
William Jardine
unites the
hermit hummingbirds
in a new subfamily the
Phaethornithinae
Death of
René Louiche Desfontaines
Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied
expedition to the Interior of North America. One of the birds discovered was the
pinyon jay
.
Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger
theorises that dark pigments increase in races of animals living in warm and humid habitats in a work entitled
Das Abändern der Vögel durch Einfluss des Klima's