Henry Seebohm

Henry Seebohm (1832 - November 26, 1895) was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.

Seebohm was born in Bradford. His interest in natural history led him to travel widely, in Greece, Scandinavia, Turkey, and South Africa. His expeditions to the Yenisey tundra of Siberia were described in his two books, "Siberia in Europe" (1880) and "Siberia in Asia" (1882), which were combined in the posthumous publication "The Birds of Siberia" (1901).

He was one of the first European ornithologists to accept the American trinomial system to classify sub-species.

Seebohm's other publications included "A History of British Birds" (1883), "The Geographical Distribution of the family Charadriidae" (1887), "The Birds of the Japanese Empire" (1890) and "A Monograph of the Turdidae" (1898).

A number of birds were named after Seebohm, including the Grey Emu-tail "Dromaeocercus seebohmi" by Richard Bowdler Sharpe.

Bibliographic Literature

*Seebohm, H. (1901, reprinted 1985). "The Birds of Siberia: To the Petchora Valley". Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-86299-259-1
*Seebohm, H. (1901, reprinted 1985). "The Birds of Siberia: The Yenesei". Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-86299-260-5
* "The Travelling Naturalists" by Clare Lloyd. (Study of 18th Century Natural History - Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and Mary Kingsley) Contains colour and black and white reproductions. [ Published by Croom Helm (UK) in 1985 with ISBN 0 7099 1658 2 ]

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