Charles Swinhoe

Colonel Charles Swinhoe (29 August 1836 - 2 December 1923) was a naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India. He was a founder of the Bombay Natural History Society and a brother of the famous naturalist Robert Swinhoe.

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29 August - 1836 - 2 December - 1923 - Naturalist - Lepidopterist - India - Bombay Natural History Society - Robert Swinhoe

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Swinoe was at Kandahar with Lord Roberts in 1880, and collected 341 birds there and on the march back to India. He contributed papers to The Ibis on the birds of southern Afghanistan and central India, and donated 300 bird skins from each country to the British Museum. He had one of the largest collections of Indian lepidoptera at the time, and wrote two volumes on moths as part of the Lepidoptera indica series.

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Kandahar - Afghanistan - Lepidoptera - Moth

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