Caire-Chabrand Collection

Christophe Gouraud1, Pere Roca Ristol2

1 Musee de la Vallee, Musee la Vallee 10 avenue de la Liberation, 04400, Barcelonnette; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Christophe Gouraud (kagouilles@gmail.com), Pere Roca Ristol (pere@gbif.fr)

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Resource Citation

Gouraud C. Inventory of the Caire-Chabrand Collection (Musée de la Vallée, Barcelonnette, France).

Abstract

The Musee de la Vallee of Barcelonnette holds an important collection of mounted birds specimens started by Joseph Adolphe Caire (1809-1884) during the 19th century and completed by Emile Chabrand (1843-1893) who travelled around the world. The Caire-Chabrand Collection houses 880 specimens representing 487 species of birds, collected in all continents but mainly in France and Europe. One extinct species, the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), is represented by an adult male.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=musee_vallee

Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Caire-Chabrand Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=musee_vallee
Publication date of data: 2016-06-28
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-12-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset