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Gabaldon L. Briceno
Gabaldon L. Briceno
The BRICENO family were professional collectors in Merida, Venezuela from 1872 until 1944 who worked closely together with the natural history dealer ROSENBERG. José y Salomón BRICENO (1826-1912), since 1880 Salomón BRICENO GABALDÓN and sons. Between 1888 and 1906 they regularly collected for the ROTHSCHILD collection in Tring (up to 3465 m above sea-level). They also contributed to the collection SEILERN (NMW), to the museums in Budapest, Washington (214 specimens from 1903 via Wirt ROBINSON, 23 specimens from 1906-1911), New York, Genoa, Geneva, Chicago (329 specimens, 1872-1921), etc. Miss Francisca BRICENO GABALDON continued selling specimens to the Caracas museum. The archive of The Natural History Museum, Tring holds correspondence of BRICENO with the zoological department (1886-1898).
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PHELPS W.H., 1944: Resumen de las Colecciones Ornitologicas Hechas en Venezuela. Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolano da Ciencias Naturales, Oct-Dic, 1944, 61: 325-444.
ROUNDS R.S., 1990: Men and Birds in South America 1492 to 1900. Q.E.D. Press, Fort Bragg, California. 164 ff.
Pers. comm.: A. GAMAUF, H. SCHIFTER, Vienna, Austria, R. RESTALL, Caracas, Venezuela, V. WEST. Tring, UK
