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unusual facts about Andreas Reischek


Samuel Henry Drew

Andreas Reischek helped him classify his collections on occasions, which were displayed at his family house in Wanganui.


Reischek's Parakeet

The common name commemorates pioneering naturalist and collector Andreas Reischek, who collected specimens of the parrot in 1888 and who named it Platycercus hochstetteri for the son of his friend, Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter, who made a geological survey of New Zealand.


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