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Charles Swinhoe

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from Bombay, Poona, Mhow and Karachi districts. He had one of the largest collections of Indian Lepidoptera at the time (40,000 specimens of 7,000 species and 400 new species described by him), and completed the
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in 1880, and collected 341 birds there and on the march back to India. These were described in
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without purchase in 1858 and returned to the 56th Foot in 1859, transferring to the
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made him an honorary member. His Lepidoptera collection was purchased by
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and central India, and donated 300 bird skins from each country to the
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British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
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and had shot 50–60 tigers. He was also a member of the
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English officer, naturalist, lepidopterist (1838–1923)
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1885: 62–69, 124–138) He collected insects, chiefly
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Index

Calcutta
English
naturalist
lepidopterist
British Army
India
Bombay Natural History Society
Robert Swinhoe
ensign
56th Regiment of Foot
Crimea
1857 Mutiny
lieutenancy
15th Foot
Bombay Staff Corps
Kandahar
Lord Roberts
lieutenant-colonel
colonel
British Ornithologists' Union
The Ibis
Afghanistan
British Museum
Henry Edwin Barnes
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera Indica
Frederic Moore
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Everard Charles Cotes
Entomological Society of France

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