- John Stanislaw Kubary
John Stanislaw Kubary (born
November 13 ,1846 inWarsaw ,Poland , diedOctober 9 ,1896 ,Pohnpei ), also stated as Jan Stanislaw Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist andethnographer .He discovered at least four bird species -- the
Samoan Wood Rail (Gallinula pacifica), theMariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi), theCaroline Islands Ground Dove (Gallicolumba kubaryi), and thePohnpei Fantail (Rhipidura kubaryi) -- as well as numerous insects, among them the Paradise Birdwing ("Ornithoptera paradisea "). The peakMount Kubari onNew Guinea is named after him.Works
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Alfred Tetens and Eduard Gräffe "The Carolines island of Yap or Guap according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary" "Die Carolineninsel Yap oder Guap nach den Mittheilungen von Alf. Tetens und Johann Kubary" Microform Reprint New Haven, Conn.External links
* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000125b.htm Biography]
*Johann Schmeltz 1897. "Johann Stanislaus Kubary, der Erforscher der Südsee-Inseln, gest. im Oktober 1896 auf der Insel Ponape." [Johann Stanislaus Kubary, the researcher of the South Sea Islands, who died in October 1896 on the island of Pohnpei] . Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 10, pp. 132-136.Long obituary of Kubary. [http://marshall.csu.edu.au/CNMI/CNMIBIB/0589.pdf]
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