Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian

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Biography

Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethelyn Welby, who was English. His brother Giorgio married their cousin Adele Emiliani (daughter of Giacomo Emiliani and Casson Adelaide Welby) and had five children (Charlie, Robbie, Minnie, Nellie and Guglielmo "Willie"). His nephew Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti married Giacinta Galletti de Cadilhac (daughter of Arturo Galletti de Cadilhac and Margaret Collier) and had three children (Gladys, Massimo "Max" and Gioconda Beatrice "Joyce"). He studied medicine in

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and Rome and graduated in medicine at the University of Pisa. He participated in Garibaldi's military expedition in

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), serving as a medical officer. He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in

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in 1879.

The naturalist

Tommaso Salvadori took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862. He was a specialist in birds of Asia. He studied the wide collections of birds of these regions held by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova and the collections of East Indian birds at Paris, London, Berlin and Leyden. In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in

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to work on three volumes of their ''Catalogue of the Birds''. Salvadori's pheasant ('' Lophura inornata'') is named after him, as is also the crocodile monitor ('' Varanus salvadorii''),Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Salvadori", p. 232). which is also commonly known as Salvadori's monitor, the Papua monitor, or the artelia. Many other species of birds are named after him, for example, Salvadori's fig parrot '' Psittaculirostris salvadorii'', Yellow-capped pygmy parrot ('' Micropsitta keiensis''), Salvadori nightjar ('' Caprimulgus pulchellus''), Salvadori's antwren ('' Myrmotherula minor''), Salvadori's eremomela ('' Eremomela salvadorii''), Salvadori's seedeater ('' Serinus xantholaemus''), Salvadori's teal ('' Salvadorina waigiuensis'') and others. He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.

Works

partial list * ''Monografia del Gener Ceyx Lacépède''. Torino (1869) (Atti della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino) * ''Nuove specie di uccelli dei generi ''Criniger'', ''Picus'' ed ''Homoptila'' Nov. Gen.''. Torino (1871) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Intorno al ''Cypselus horus'' ''. Torino (1872) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) coautore: O. Antinori * ''Intorno ad un nuovo genere di ''Saxicola'' ''. Torino (1872) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) coautore: O. Antinori * ''Nuova specie del Genere ''Hyphantornis'' ''. Torino (1873) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Di alcune specie del Genere ''Porphyrio'' Briss.''. Torino (1879) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche''. Torino (1879) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Osservazioni intorno ad alcune specie del Genere ''Collocalia'' G.R. Gr.''. Torino (1880) (Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze) * ''Collezioni ornitologiche fatte nelle isole del Capo Verde da Leonardo Fea''. Annali Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (2) 20: 1–32. (1889) * ''Catalogue of the Psittaci, or parrots, in the collection of the British museum''. London (1891) * ''Catalogue of the Columabe, or pigeons, in the collection of the British museum''. London (1893) * ''Catalogue of the Chenomorphae (Palamedeae, Phoenicopteri, Anseres) Crypturi and Ratitae in the collection of the British Museum''. London (1895) * ''Due nuove specie di Uccelli dell'Isola di S. Thomé e dell'Isola del Principe raccolte dal sig. Leonardo Fea''. Bollettino della Società dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino (1901) * ''Uccelli della Guinea Portoghese raccolti da Leonardo Fea''. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (1901) * ''Caratteri di due nuove specie di Uccelli di Fernando Po''. Bollettino della Società dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino (1903) * ''Contribuzioni alla ornitologia delle Isole del Golfo di Guinea''. Memorie della Reale Academia delle Scienze di Torino, serie II, tomo LIII (1903) ** I – Uccelli dell'Isola del Principe ** II – Uccelli dell'Isola di San Thomé ** III – Uccelli di Anno-Bom e di Fernando Po

Bibliography

* P. Passerin D'Entreves, A. Rolando, C. Violani ''Tommaso Salvadori nel centocinquantenario della nascita (1835–1923)'', Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, II-56 3/4 133 (1986). * E. Arrigoni Degli Oddi ''Cenni sulla vita e sulle opere di Tommaso Salvadori'', Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, I-6 2 66 (1923–24). * G. Zanazzo, C. Violani, M. Pandolfi ''Studio della Collezione ornitologica personale di Tommaso Salvadori conservata a Fermo''. Atti VII Convegno Nazionale di Ornitologia, Suppl. Ric.Biol. Selvaggina, XXII:15–21 (1995). * M. Pandolfi, C. Violani, G. Zanazzo ''L'opera scientifica di Tommaso Salvadori''. Città di Fermo, Fermo: 1–7 (1994).

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