page_title: 1833 in birding and ornithology
hierarchical_section_title: 1833 in birding and ornithology
context_page_description: Death of Félix Louis L'Herminier
  Samuel Tickell describes new birds from India in the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal. These include the jungle owlet, Tickell's thrush and the thick-billed flowerpecker.
  Richard Owen dissects a specimen of a great hornbill noting highly pneumatized bones, with hollow air cavities extending to the tips of their wing bones.
  Brian Houghton Hodgson becomes British Resident in Kathmandu
  William Jardine unites the hermit hummingbirds in a new subfamily the Phaethornithinae
  Death of René Louiche Desfontaines
  Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied expedition to the Interior of North America. One of the birds discovered was the pinyon jay.
  Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger theorises that dark pigments increase in races of animals living in warm and humid habitats in a work entitled Das Abändern der Vögel durch Einfluss des Klima's
context_section_description: Death of Félix Louis L'Herminier
  Samuel Tickell describes new birds from India in the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal. These include the jungle owlet, Tickell's thrush and the thick-billed flowerpecker.
  Richard Owen dissects a specimen of a great hornbill noting highly pneumatized bones, with hollow air cavities extending to the tips of their wing bones.
  Brian Houghton Hodgson becomes British Resident in Kathmandu
  William Jardine unites the hermit hummingbirds in a new subfamily the Phaethornithinae
  Death of René Louiche Desfontaines
  Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied expedition to  the Interior of North America. One of the birds discovered was the pinyon jay.
  Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger theorises that dark pigments increase in races of animals living in warm and humid habitats in a work entitled Das Abändern der Vögel durch Einfluss des Klima's
caption: René Louiche Desfontaines better known as a botanist but posthumous author of Desfontaines's Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux des côtes de Barbarie
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