Adolphe Delattre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French ornithologist
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Place of Birth: Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Adolphe Delattre
- (Pierre) Adolphe Delattre (or De Lattre) (12 February 1805, Tours – 3 January 1854, Nice) was a French ornithologist.Between 1831 and 1851 he made several expeditions to America, where he was particularly interested in collecting hummingbirds.
- He named a number of new species, either alone or with Jules Bourcier.
- In 1839, with naturalist René Primevère Lesson, he described seven species of hummingbird.He is commemorated in the binomial of the rufous-crested coquette, Lophornis delattrei.
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