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William Turner (1509/10 - 13 Jul 1568)

English divine, physician, and a natural historian. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Turner_(naturalist) Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia.
as Mentioned or referenced by - English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray: A Study of the Making of the Modern World .
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.) 5 Passer troglodites Aldr. Turnero et Bellonio perperam Regulus p. 229. T. 42. Wren. Passer troglodites of Aldrovandi. By Turner and Belon wrongly called the Regulus. Willughby 1678, p. 229, tab. 42.
MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.) 8 Emberiza fl ava Gesn. Hortulanus Bellonij; Luteæ alterum genus Aldr. Chloreus s. Lutea Arist. Turneri. Willough. p. 268. T. 40. C The yellow Hammer. Yellowhammer. Emberiza flava of Gessner; Hortulanus of Belon; Lutea of another kind of Aldrovandi; the Chloreus or Aristotle's Lutea of Turner. Willughby 1678, p. 268, tab. 40.