Herbert Girton Deignan

Herbert Girton Deignan (1906–1968), U.S. ornithologist specializing in birds of Thailand. Also published as Herbert G. Deignan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 10 taxon names authored by Herbert Girton Deignan

Publications

1931

• Deignan, H.G. 1931. The birds of Chiengmai region. J. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl. 8: 131–176.

1933

• Deignan, H.G. 1933. Notes on some Canal Zone birds. Auk 50: 125.

1934

• Deignan, H.G. 1934. Short notes on some New Zealand birds. Auk 51: 487–492.

1935

• Deignan, H.G. 1935. Notes on birds in north Siam. J. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl. 10: 64–66.

1936

• Deignan, H.G. 1936. A revised hand-list of the birds of the Chiengmai region. J. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl. 10: 71–131.

1938

• Deignan, H.G. 1938. Exploring Siam, in Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1937: 41–44.

1939

• Deignan, H.G. 1939. Three new birds of the genus Stachyris. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 24: 109–114.

1940

• Deignan, H.G. 1940. Comments on Criniger conradi Finsch. Ibis 4, 14th Ser.: 528–529.

1941

• Deignan, H.G. 1941. New birds from the Indo-Chinese sub-region. Auk 58: 396–398.

1942

• Deignan, H.G. 1942. A revision of the Indo-chinese forms of the avian genus Prinia. Smithsonian Misc. roll. 103, no. 3: 1–12.

1943

• Deignan, H.G. 1943. Remarks on Phasianus crawfurdii and other birds named by J. E. Gray from Crawfurd's 'Indian drawings.' Auk 60: 88–89.

1945

• Deignan, H.G. 1945. The birds of northern Thailand. U.S. Natl. Mus., Bull. 186: 1–616.

1946

• Deignan, H.G. 1946. The races of the Scarlet Minivet [Pericrocotus fiammeus (Forster)]. Auk 63: 511–533.

1947

• Deignan, H.G. 1947. A review of the races of the Spotted Babbling Thrush, Pelloreneum ruficeps Swainson. Smithsonian Misc. roll. 107, no. 4: 1–20.

1948

• Deignan, H.G. 1948. Races of the bulbul, Microscelis charlottae (Finsch) and its relatives. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 61: 1–12.

1949

• Deignan, H.G. 1949. Races of Pycnonotus cafer (Linnaeus) and P. aurigaster (Vieillot) in the Indochinese sub-region. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 39: 273–279.

1950

• Deignan, H.G. 1950. The races of the Collard Scops Owl, Otus bakkamoena Pennant. Auk 67: 189–200.

1951

• Deignan, H.G. 1951. A New Race of the Hawk-Owl, Ninox scutulata from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 64: 41–42.
• Deignan, H.G. 1951. A new Black-bird (Aves) from Western China. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 64: 135. BHL
• Deignan, H.G. 1951. New passerine birds from the Indo-Chinese subregion. Postilia, no. 7: 1–4.
• Deignan, H.G. 1951. The genus Cuculus in North America, a reconsideration. Condor 53: 154–155.

1952

• Deignan, H.G. 1952. Chinese races of Pomatorhinus erythrogenys Vigors. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 65: 119–126.

1954

• Deignan, H.G. 1954. Five new races of bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) from southern Asia. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 44: 123–125.

1955

• Deignan, H.G. 1955. Remarks on Picus vittatus Vieillot and some of its allies. Ibis 97: 18–24.

1956

• Deignan, H.G. 1956. Eastern races of the White-rumped Swift, Apus pacificus (Latham). Bull. Raffles Mus., Singapore no. 27: 147–148.

1957

• Deignan, H.G. 1957. A new flycatcher from southeastern Asia, with remarks on Muscicapa latirostris Raffles. Ibis 99: 340–344.

1958

• Deignan, H.G. 1958. The systematic position of the bird genus Apalopteron. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 108: 133–136.

1960

• Deignan, H.G. 1960. Pericrocotus, Hemipus, Tep.hrodornis. In Check-list of Birds of the World (E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr., Eds.), Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mus. Comp. Zool. 9: 207–221.
• Deignan, H.G. 1960. Pycnonotidae (Oriental) (with A. L. Rand). Ibid. 9: 221–300.

1961

• Deignan, H.G. 1961. Type specimens of birds in the United States National Museum. U.S. Natl. Mus., Bull. 221: 1–718.

1963

• Deignan, H.G. 1963. Checklist of the birds of Thailand. U.S. Natl. Mus., Bull. 226: 1–263.

1964

• Deignan, H.G. 1964. Orthonychinae, Timaliinae, Panurinae, Picathartinae. In Check-list of Birds of the World (E. Mayr and R. A. Paynter, Jr., Eds.), Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mus. Comp. Zool. 10: 228–442.
• Deignan, H.G. 1964. Birds of the Arnhem Land Expedition. Rec. American-Australian Sci. Expedition to Arnhem Land 4: 345425.

1965

• Deignan, H.G. 1965. Notes on the nomenclature of the whistling-thrushes. Bull. Brit. Ornithol. Club 85: 3–4. BHL

Links

• Friedmann, H. 1970. In Memoriam: Herbert Girton Deignan. 87: 14–19. The Auk. PDF.