August von Pelzeln was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n ornithologist.

August Edler Pelzeln was in charge of the mammal

Mammal

Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...

 and bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

 collections at the Imperial Natural History Museum

Imperial Natural History Museum

The Imperial Natural History Museum or Imperial Royal Natural History Court Museum of Austria-Hungary was created by Emperor Franz Joseph I during an extensive reorganization of the museum collections, from 1851–1876, and opened to the public on August 10, 1889.Located in Vienna, the Museum was...

 (Imperial Cabinet)in Vienna

Vienna

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. He worked on the birds collected by Johann Natterer

Johann Natterer

Johann Natterer was an Austrian naturalist and explorer.In 1817, Emperor Franz IIfinanced an expedition to Brazil on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Archduchess Leopoldina to the Portuguese crown prince, Dom Pedro of Alcantara...

 in Brazil

Brazil

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 in 1822.

He was forced to retire from the museum due to ill health, and died at Oberdöbling

Oberdöbling

Oberdöbling was an independent municipality until 1892 and is today a part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna. It is also one of the 89 Katastralgemeinden.- Geography :...

 near Vienna.

Some birds described by Pelzeln are Red-eyed Thornbird

Red-eyed Thornbird

The Orange-breasted Thornbird , also known as the Red-eyed Thornbird, is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in forest and woodland, especially near water, in south-eastern Brazil and Uruguay....

, Spot-winged Antbird

Spot-winged Antbird

The Spot-winged Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. Until recently, it included the Roraiman, Humaita, Brownish-headed and Rufous-faced Antbird as subspecies, but based on differences in voice and plumage it has been recommended treating them as separate species...

, Red-legged Tinamou

Red-legged Tinamou

The Red-legged Tinamou or Red-footed Tinamou,Crypturellus erythropus, is a dumpy, ground-dwelling bird found in the tropics and lower subtropics of northern South America..-Description:...

, Short-billed Leaftosser

Short-billed Leaftosser

The Short-billed Leaftosser is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela....

, Yellow-margined Flatbill and the New Zealand Rockwren.

Works

• Bemerkungen gegen Darwin's Theorie vom Ursprung der Spezies. Vienna: A. Pichler Witwe & Sohn (1861).
• Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens, Resultate von Johann Natterers Reisen in den Jahren 1817 bis 1835 Johann Natterers" Wien, A. Pichler's Witwe & Sohn (1871) BHL
• Many papers in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (usually abbreviated Sitz.K.Akad.Wiss.Wien