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May 03, 1835 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 19 Mar 1895 (aged 59)
Scottish ornithologist
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About Edward Hargitt
- Edward Hargitt (3 May 1835 – 19 March 1895) was a Scottish ornithologist. Edward Hargitt (born in Edinburgh) studied art in the Royal Scottish Academy and was a fairly good painter of landscapes.
- These paintings yield high prices today, auctioned at Christie's.
- He became also an ornithologist and developed into an expert on woodpeckers.
- He was the author of the monograph on Picidae for the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, published in 1890.
- During later years, he prepared 1300 drawings of woodpeckers for a proposed monograph.
- The original monograph “Book of Reference to the Picidae” (1895) is currently kept in the funds of the State Darwin Museum in Moscow, Russia.
