Frank Finn FZS, MBOU was an English ornithologist. Finn was born in Maidstone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and became First Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta in 1894, and Deputy Superintendent from 1895 to 1903. He then returned to England, and was editor of the Avicultural Magazine in 1909-10.

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  • Frank Finn FZS, MBOU was an English ornithologist. Finn was born in Maidstone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and became First Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta in 1894, and Deputy Superintendent from 1895 to 1903. He then returned to England, and was editor of the Avicultural Magazine in 1909-10. Finn was a prolific author, his works including Garden and Aviary Birds of India, How to Know the Indian Ducks (1901), Birds of Calcutta (1901), How to Know the Indian Waders (1906), Ornithological and other Oddities (1907), The Making of Species, Eggs and Nests of British Birds (1910) and Indian Sporting Birds (1915). The weaver bird Ploceus megarhynchus was originally described from a specimen collected by A. O. Hume from Kaladhungi near Nainital in 1869. It was rediscovered near Calcutta by Finn and E. W. Oates called it Finn's Weaver around 1889-90.
  • Frank Finn war ein englischer Ornithologe. Finn wurde an der Maidstone Grammar School und am Brasenose College, Oxford ausgebildet. 1892 nahm er an einer Sammelexpediton nach Ostafrika teil. 1894 war er der erste Assistent des Leiters am Indian Museum in Kalkutta und von 1895 bis 1903 der stellvertretende Leiter. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach England war er von 1909 bis 1910 Redakteur des Avicultural Magazine. Finn war ein profilierter Autor. Zu seinen Werken zählen How to Know the Indian Ducks (1901), Birds of Calcutta (1901), How to Know the Indian Waders (1906), Ornithological and other Oddities (1907), The Making of Species (1909, mit Douglas Dewar), Eggs and Nests of British Birds (1910), Wild Animals of Yesterday and Today (1915), Garden and Aviary Birds of India (1915) und Indian Sporting Birds (1915).
  • Frank Finn est un ornithologue britannique, né en 1868 à Maidstone et mort le 1 octobre 1932. Il fait ses études au Maidstone Grammar School et au Brasenose College d'Oxford. Il participe à une expédition de collection de spécimens d'histoire naturelle dans l'est de l'Afrique en 1892. Il devient le premier assistant du directeur du Muséum indien de Calcutta en 1894 et directeur (Deputy Superintendent) de 1895 à 1903. Il retourne alors en Angleterre où il dirige l'Avicultural Magazine en 1909-1910. Finn est un auteur prolifique. Il est membre de la British Ornithologists' Union et de la Société zoologique de Londres. Il découvre le tisserin de Finn, Ploceus megarhynchus. Celui-ci est décrit par Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) qui lui dédie l'espèce.
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  • Another species, though so far very rare and little known, needs mention here, as most of the recorded specimens have been met with in captivity. This is the Large-billed Weaver of the Terai (Ploceus megarhynchus) which has been confused with the Eastern Baya Weaver in ornithological works. The male of this species in its winter plumage and the female always is much like the ordinary Weavers in the corresponding garb, but noticeably larger, being almost as big as the Pawi or small Grey-headed Mynah. It is also of a duller brown and less streaked ; but these points were not considered sufficient to distinguish it by anyone except Mr. Hume, until I found, quite by accident, that the summer-plumaged male was very different from our other species. It is much more yellow, this colour extending all over the undersurface of the body and nearly all over the head, so that practically the only brown parts are the wings and tail. My friend Mr. E. W. Harper secured a specimen of this fine bird lately, which passed into the possession of a well-known naturalist at home. This was procured in Tiretta Bazar at Calcutta, and some time later a dozen birds of the species turned up there, and were bought for training by a Parsee resident of that city, who took them to England for exhibition. The two birds, on which I was able to re-establish the species which Mr. Hume had first named from two skins, were obtained from the late Mr. Rutledge at Entally, so that in Calcutta one has the best chance of coming across one of the rarest and least known of Indian birds, only the few specimens I have alluded to being known to exist.
  • Finn, 1915, Garden and aviary birds of India
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  • Frank Finn FZS, MBOU was an English ornithologist. Finn was born in Maidstone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and became First Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta in 1894, and Deputy Superintendent from 1895 to 1903. He then returned to England, and was editor of the Avicultural Magazine in 1909-10.
  • Frank Finn war ein englischer Ornithologe. Finn wurde an der Maidstone Grammar School und am Brasenose College, Oxford ausgebildet. 1892 nahm er an einer Sammelexpediton nach Ostafrika teil. 1894 war er der erste Assistent des Leiters am Indian Museum in Kalkutta und von 1895 bis 1903 der stellvertretende Leiter. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach England war er von 1909 bis 1910 Redakteur des Avicultural Magazine. Finn war ein profilierter Autor.
  • Frank Finn est un ornithologue britannique, né en 1868 à Maidstone et mort le 1 octobre 1932. Il fait ses études au Maidstone Grammar School et au Brasenose College d'Oxford. Il participe à une expédition de collection de spécimens d'histoire naturelle dans l'est de l'Afrique en 1892. Il devient le premier assistant du directeur du Muséum indien de Calcutta en 1894 et directeur (Deputy Superintendent) de 1895 à 1903.
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