Key to North American Birds, taxonomic classification of subspecies
Spouses
Sarah A. Richardson (annulled)
Jeannie Augusta McKenney
(m. 1867; div. 1886)
Mary Emily Bates Coues
(m. 1887)
Parents
Samuel Elliott Coues (father)
Charlotte Haven Ladd Coues (mother)
Awards
Member of the American Philosophical Society
Scientific career
Fields
Ornithology
Author abbrev. (zoology)
Coues
Elliott Ladd Coues (/ˈkaʊz/; September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist, and author.[1] He led surveys of the Arizona Territory, and later as secretary of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. He founded the American Ornithological Union in 1883, and was editor of its publication, The Auk.
^Smith, Alfred Emanuel (January 13, 1900). "A Great Ornithologist". The Outlook. 64: 98. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
its publication, The Auk. Coues was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Samuel ElliottCoues and Charlotte Haven Ladd Coues. He graduated at Columbian...
of 19th-century historian and ornithologist ElliottCoues (1842–99) from about 1887 until his death. Coues helped found the American Ornithologists' Union...
Joshua Tree National Park. The specific epithet honors ornithologist ElliottCoues. It grows to 30–60 cm tall, and is leafless most of the year. The leaves...
hibernation became so well established that even as late as in 1878, ElliottCoues could list as many as 182 contemporary publications dealing with the...
that Louis meet his uncle ElliottCoues, who was also keenly interested in birds. This meeting was a turning point, as Coues recognized Fuertes' talent...
which ElliottCoues sent to him over many decades form one of the cornerstones of the history of American ornithology. Allen famously memorialized Coues in...
upon. This became the standard mainly because of tireless promotion by ElliottCoues – even though trinomina in the modern usage were pioneered in 1828 by...
the ground. This gull was first described as a new species in 1862 by ElliottCoues based on a series of specimens from the Smithsonian Institution. It...
genus was named by ElliottCoues in 1887, having previously been described by Lichtenstein in 1830 under the name Bassaris. Coues proposed the word "bassarisk"...
history, Volume 1, The Standard Natural History, ElliottCoues, Editors John Sterling Kingsley, ElliottCoues. Publisher S.E. Cassino and company, 1884, Pages...
Entomologist. II (1): 1–2. Thomas, C. (1878). "On the Orthoptera collected by ElliottCoues, U.S.A., in Dakota and Montana, during 1873-74". Bulletin of the United...
The ashy storm petrel was first described by American ornithologist ElliottCoues in 1864. Both its common and scientific name, homochroa, "uniformly...
founded in 1883. Three members of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, ElliottCoues, J. A. Allen, and William Brewster, sent letters to 48 prominent ornithologists...
Lucy Louisa Coues was born on May 10, 1837, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was adopted by Charlotte Haven Ladd and Samuel ElliottCoues. She grew up in...
morphological analysis by ElliottCoues in 1866, and paid little attention to more recent studies and even ignored some of Coues's suggestions. Research by...
District Court of Maryland. (Class of 1979). ElliottCoues (1842-1899), physician, ornithologist, mammalogist. Coues white tail deer is named for him. B. Alvin...
introduced in 1866 specifically for the elf owl by American ornithologist ElliottCoues. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek mikros meaning "small" and...
Mary Emily Bates Coues (née, Bennett; after first marriage, Bates; after second marriage, Coues; August 26, 1835 – February 16, 1906) was an American suffragist...
Genus: Sciurus Species: S. arizonensis Binomial name Sciurus arizonensis Coues, 1867 Subspecies S. a. arizonensis S. a. catalinae S. a. huachuca Arizona...
the Hodgson Report. The Blavatsky–Coulomb letters were destroyed by ElliottCoues, an enemy of Blavatsky, so that they cannot be studied.[citation needed]...
article based on information provided by an ex-member of the Society, ElliottCoues. Blavatsky sued the newspaper for libel, and they publicly retracted...
New Zealand". Emu. 93 (1): 34–43. doi:10.1071/MU9930034. In 1878, Dr. ElliottCoues, listed titles of 182 papers dealing with the hibernation of swallows...
Couesius is considered monotypic today. The genus was named after ElliottCoues, who collected the holotype specimen. The body is fusiform and somewhat...
– US Wells Cooke – US Emilio Cornalia – Italy Charles B. Cory – US ElliottCoues – US John Courtney – Australia Lee Crandall – US Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar...
total of 18 teeth. This genus was first separated from Old World jerboas by Coues in 1875. Members of this genus are very similar in appearance, all species...
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