Tommaso Salvadori


Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.

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 and had five children. His nephew Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti married Giacinta Galletti de Cadilhac and had three children. He studied medicine in Pisa and Rome and graduated in medicine at the University of Pisa.
He participated in Garibaldi's military expedition in Sicily, 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 Turin 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 London to work on three volumes of their Catalogue of the Birds.
Salvadori's pheasant is named after him, as is also the crocodile monitor, 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, Salvadori nightjar, Salvadori's antwren, Salvadori's eremomela, Salvadori's seedeater, Salvadori's teal and others.
He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.

Works

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