Edgar Leopold Layard

Edgar Leopold Layard is a British Naturaliste , born in 1824 in Italy and died in 1900.

Layard spends ten years to Ceylon where he studies local fauna at the sides of Robert Templeton (1802-1892). It leaves as civil servant in 1854 to the colony the Cape where it works in the services of the governor Sir George Grey (1812-1898). It leaves then posts some with the Brésil, the Fiji and in New Caledonia. His/her son, Leopold Layard, vice-consul of Noumea, assists it by carrying out ornithological forwardings in the New Hebrides and the islands Loyauté.

In 1855, during its spare time, it occupies the station of conservative within the natural history museum of South Africa. With the Brazil, it collects Oiseau X for the account of Arthur Hay, ninth marquis de Tweeddale (1824-1878).

Layard makes off appear in 1867 The Birds South Africa where it describes 702 species. The work will be updated later by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909).

Sources

Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins (2003). Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate. Yale University Close (New Haven and London).
Maurice Boubier (1925). Evolution of ornithology. Bookstore Felix Alcan (Paris), New scientific collection: II + 308 p.
Barbara Mearns & Richard Mearns (1998). The Bird Collectors. Academic Close (London): xvii + 472 p.

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