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- Frank Finn (* 1868 in Maidstone, Kent, England; † 1. Oktober 1932) 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). (de)
- Frank Finn FZS, MBOU (1868 – 1 October 1932) 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 in 1909–10. Finn was a prolific author, his works including Garden and Aviary Birds of India, How to Know the Indian Ducks (1901), The Birds of Calcutta (1901), How to Know the Indian Waders (1906), Ornithological and other Oddities (1907), The Making of Species (1909, with Douglas Dewar), Eggs and Nests of British Birds (1910) and Indian Sporting Birds (1915). He also edited Robert A. Sterndale's on the mammals of India and Ceylon and brought out a new and abridged edition titled Sterndale's Mammalia of India (1929), which included an appendix on reptiles. 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. C. Stuart Baker called it Finn's Weaver in the second edition of the Fauna of British India (1925). 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 Finn also described three new species of reptiles in collaboration with British naturalist Alfred William Alcock. Finn was editor of The Zoologist during the last two years of its existence, from 1915 to 1916. (en)
- Frank Finn est un ornithologue britannique, né en 1868 à Maidstone et mort le 1er octobre 1932. (fr)
- Фрэнк Финн (1868—1932) — британский орнитолог. Много лет работал в Индии. Автор работ 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 (1909, в соавторстве с Дугласом Деваром), Eggs and Nests of British Birds (1910) и Indian Sporting Birds (1915). Переоткрыл вид птиц Ploceus megarhynchus. Совместно с Алкоком впервые описал три новых вида рептилий. В последние два года существования научного журнала (1915—1916) был его редактором. (ru)
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- Frank Finn est un ornithologue britannique, né en 1868 à Maidstone et mort le 1er octobre 1932. (fr)
- Фрэнк Финн (1868—1932) — британский орнитолог. Много лет работал в Индии. Автор работ 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 (1909, в соавторстве с Дугласом Деваром), Eggs and Nests of British Birds (1910) и Indian Sporting Birds (1915). Переоткрыл вид птиц Ploceus megarhynchus. Совместно с Алкоком впервые описал три новых вида рептилий. В последние два года существования научного журнала (1915—1916) был его редактором. (ru)
- Frank Finn (* 1868 in Maidstone, Kent, England; † 1. Oktober 1932) 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. (de)
- Frank Finn FZS, MBOU (1868 – 1 October 1932) 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 in 1909–10. — Finn, 1915, Garden and Aviary Birds of India Finn also described three new species of reptiles in collaboration with British naturalist Alfred William Alcock. (en)
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