Jean Théodore Delacour
Jean Théodore Delacour | |
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Died | November 5, 1985 | (aged 95)
Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French
Life and work
Delacour was born in
Delacour served in the
Perhaps my bitter experience may serve as an object lesson to those who hold material possessions in too great esteem and to remind others that nothing in life should be regarded as permanent.
Delacour, Avicultural Magazine 1941[10]
During
Delacour was reliant on a wheelchair in later life. He lived with his mother who died in 1954 at the age of 94. In his autobiography "The Living Air" he wrote that humans would eventually annihilate all life on earth.[4][16][17][18][19][20]
Delacour is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Southeast Asian snake, Plagiopholis delacouri.[21]
Bibliography
Apart from many papers in the ornithological literature, particularly in the Avicultural Magazine, Delacour wrote or cowrote several books including:
- 1931 – Les Oiseaux de L'Indochine Française (4 vols)
- 1945 – Birds of the Philippines (with Ernst Mayr)
- 1947 – Birds of Malaysia
- 1951 – The Pheasants of the World
- 1951–64 – The Waterfowl of the World (4 vols) - with paintings by Sir Peter Scott
- 1959 – Wild Pigeons and Doves
- 1966 – The Living Air: The Memoirs of an Ornithologist (autobiography)
- 1973 – Curassows and Related Birds (with Dean Amadon)
References
- ^ "BirdLife International". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ Delacour, J. (1917). "Notes on my birds at Villers-Bretonneux in 1916". Avicultural Magazine. 3. 8 (3): 69–73.
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- ^ a b Nowak, Eugeniusz (2002). "Erinnerungen an Ornithologen, die ich kannte (4. Teil)" (PDF). Der Ornithologische Beobachter (in German). 99: 49–70. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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- ^ a b Delacour, Jean (1941). "The end of Cleres". Avicultural Magazine. 6: 81–84.
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- ^ Ezra, Ruth (1988). "Jean Theodore Delacour 1890-1985". Avicultural Magazine. 94: 1–2.
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- ^ Lindholm, J. H. (1988). "Jean Delacour and the Avicultural Magazine". Avic. Mag. 94: 68–69.
- ^ Delacour, J. (1969). "The progress of aviculture during the last three-quarters of a century". Avicultural Magazine. 75: 224–225.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Delacour", p. 68).