(Pierre) Adolphe Delattre (or De Lattre) (12 February 1805,

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metr ...

– 3 January 1854,

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) was a French

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

. Between 1831 and 1851 he made several expeditions to America, where he was particularly interested in collecting

hummingbird Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics ar ...

s. He named a number of new species, either alone or with Jules Bourcier. In 1839, with naturalist

René Primevère Lesson René ('' born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminin ...

, he described seven species of hummingbird. He is commemorated in the binomial of the rufous-crested coquette, ''Lophornis delattrei''.Surfbirds Birding Trip Report
North Peru Megas

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1805 births 1854 deaths French ornithologists Scientists from Tours, France {{Ornithologist-stub