About Lionel William Wiglesworth
Lived 1865 – 1901 (aged 35–36). Lionel William Wiglesworth was a British ornithologist and zoologist.
Lionel William Wiglesworth (February 13, 1865 – June 7, 1901) was an English ornithologist who studied birds of Southeast Asia and Polynesia. Wiglesworth published The Birds of Celebes and the Neighboring Islands in 1898 with Adolf Bernhard Meyer. Together, they described several new bird species, including the dark-eared myza (Myza celebensis) and the Banggai fruit dove (Ptilinopus subgularis).
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Who was Lionel William Wiglesworth?
British ornithologist (1865–1901)
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Lionel William Wiglesworth was born in 1865 in England.
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Lionel William Wiglesworth died in 1901 in Suva.
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Lionel William Wiglesworth was an ornithologist and zoologist.
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Lionel William Wiglesworth was British.
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