George Such (1798–1879) was an English physician and ornithologist, and a member of the Linnean Society of London.
He collected bird species in eastern Brazil. During his stay in the country, he was in regular contact with two leading ornithologists of the time: William Swainson and Nicholas Aylward Vigors.A Visual Aviary: George Shaw’s Naturalist Bird Prints – In The Public Domain
In 1825, he published two papers in the Zoological Journal of London in which he described a new genus, Gubernetes as well as several species: Ardea fasciata = Tigrisoma fasciatum Dendrocolaptes crassirostris = Xiphocolaptes albicollis fortirostris = Dendrocolaptes platyrostris Drymophila variegata = Drymophila ferruginea Galbula ceycoides = Jacamaralcyon tridactyla Thamnophilus leachii = Mackenziaena leachii maculatus = Hypoedaleus guttatus swainsonii = Mackenziaena severa vigorsii = Batara cinerea
Not all of his proposed taxa were retained in later taxonomy.
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