Charles Heineken Explained

Charles Heineken (died 4 January 1830), also known as Carlos Heineken, was an English medical doctor and ornithologist. He lived on Madeira, a Portuguese island in Macaronesia, from 1826 until his death. He described the Trocaz pigeon, a Madeiran endemic bird species.[1] [2] He is commemorated in the scientific name of a subspecies of blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla heineken.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.zoonomen.net/bio/bioh.html Zoonomen
  2. http://humboldt.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/heine_carta_en_01_18xx_LiSe/index_en.html Humboldt Project: letters from Heineken to Webb