Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (September 30, 1835 – October 9, 1923, Turin) was an Italian

Italy

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 zoologist and ornithologist.

Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio

Porto San Giorgio

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, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel. He took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862. He later studied medicine in Pisa

Pisa

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 and Rome

Rome

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.
He participated in Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

's military expedition in Sicily

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 (the Expedition of the Thousand

Expedition of the Thousand

The Expedition of the Thousand was a military campaign led by the revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860. A force of volunteers defeated the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, leading to its dissolution and annexation by the Kingdom of Sardinia, an important step in the creation of a newly...

), serving as a medical officer.

He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History

Turin Museum of Natural History

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 in Turin

Turin

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 in 1879. He was a specialist in birds of Asia. In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in London

London

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 to work on their catalogues.
Salvadori's Pheasant

Salvadori's Pheasant

The Salvadori's Pheasant, Lophura inornata is a bird of genus Lophura, native to Indonesia. It is found in the mountain rainforests of Sumatra. Thus it is also known as the "Sumatran Pheasant." The species name "inornata" means "without ornament."...

 (Lophura inornata) is named after him as also the Papua monitor

Papua monitor

Varanus salvadorii is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea. It is also known by the common names Salvadori's monitor, Crocodile monitor, Papua monitor, and Artellia. The largest monitor lizard in New Guinea, it is believed to be one of the longest lizards in the world, reaching up to . It is the...

, Varanus salvadorii (also known as Salvadori's monitor, Crocodile monitor, or Artelia). He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.