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John Latham

English physician, naturalist and author (1740-1837)

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John Latham was an English medical doctor, naturalist and author. His main works were A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) and A General History of Birds (1821–1828). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds that reached England in the final twenty years of the 18th century, and was responsible for providing English names for many of them. He named some of Australia's most famous birds, including the emu, sulphur-crested cockatoo, wedge-tailed eagle, superb lyrebird, Australian magpie, magpie-lark, white-throated needletail and pheasant coucal. Latham has been called the "grandfather" of Australian ornithology. He was also the first to describe the hyacinth macaw from South America.

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Occupation: biologist, ornithologist, zoologist, illustrator
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: June 27, 1740
Died: February 4, 1837

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