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Elliott Coues (; September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author. ==Biography== Elliott Ladd Coues was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Samuel Elliott Coues and Charlotte Haven Ladd Coues. He graduated at Columbian University, (now, George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet in Washington in 1862-1863, and in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army. In 1872 he published his ''Key to North American Birds'', which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 1901, did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America. He was a founding member of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883. His work was instrumental in establishing the currently accepted standards of trinomial nomenclature - the taxonomic classification of subspecies - in ornithology, and ultimately the whole of zoology. In 1873-1876 Coues was attached as surgeon and naturalist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission, and in 1876-1880 was secretary and naturalist to the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, the publications of which he edited. He was lecturer on anatomy in the medical school of the Columbian University in 1877-1882, and professor of anatomy there in 1882-1887. He was a careful bibliographer and in his work on the ''Birds of the Colorado Valley'' he included a special section on swallows and attempted to resolve whether they migrated in winter or hibernated under lakes as was believed at the time: He resigned from the army in 1881 to devote himself entirely to scientific research. He was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union, and edited its organ, ''The Auk'', and several other ornithological periodicals. He died in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to ornithology he did valuable work in mammalogy; his book ''Fur-Bearing Animals'' (1877) being distinguished by the accuracy and completeness of its description of species, several of which were already becoming rare. ''Odocoileus virginianus couesi'', the Coues white-tailed deer is named after him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elliott Coues」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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