Edward Bartlett was an English

England

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 ornithologist. He was the son of Abraham Dee Bartlett

Abraham Dee Bartlett

Abraham Dee Bartlett was a British zoologist.Bartlett had a small natural history shop near to the British Museum where he sold the products of his taxidermy business....

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Bartlett accompanied Henry Baker Tristram

Henry Baker Tristram

The Reverend Henry Baker Tristram FRS was an English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist.Tristram was born at Eglingham vicarage, near Alnwick, Northumberland, and studied at Durham School and Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1846 he was ordained a priest, but he suffered from...

 to Palestine

Palestine

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 in 1863-64, and collected in the Amazon

Amazon River

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 basin and Peru

Peru

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 in 1865-69. He was curator at the Maidstone

Maidstone

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 Museum from 1875 to 1890, and curator of the Sarawak Museum from 1893 to 1897.

One of his most notable publications, though uncompleted at the time of his death, was his "Monograph of the Weaver Birds (Ploceidae) and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches", of which five parts were published in 1888-89.

Species named after Bartlett include Bartlett's Tinamou

Bartlett's Tinamou

The Bartlett's Tinamou Crypturellus bartletti is a type of Tinamou commonly found in lowland forest in South America.-Taxonomy:The Bartlett's Tinamou is a monotypic species. All tinamou are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also Ratites. Unlike other Ratites, Tinamous can...

 Crypturellus bartletti of Peru - the name being assigned in 1873 by fellow British ornithologists Philip Lutley Sclater and Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America....

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Honours

• 1889 - elected a Corresponding Member of the American Ornithologists' Union
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• 1897 - elected a Fellow
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   of the Zoological Society of London
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