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Père David|pɛr david|
The name of Armand David (1826–1900), French missionary naturalist, used attrib., in the possessive, or absol., in Père David('s) deer to designate Elaphurus davidianus, a large, long-tailed deer discovered by him in China in 1865, named after him by A. Milne-Edwards in 1866, and now extinct in the wild in its native land, although it survives in zoological gardens and parks, esp. in a large herd at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, established by the 11th Duke of Bedford soon after 1900.
[1871P. L. Sclater in Trans. Zool. Soc. VII. 333 This fine animal is one of the many zoological discoveries which are due to the researches of M. le Père Armand David, Missionary of the Congregation of Lazarists at Pekin.] 1898R. Lydekker Deer of all Lands 237 The general appearance of Père David's deer, when roaming in the park at Woburn Abbey, being quite unlike that of any other member of the group. 1927G. Jennison Nat. Hist.: Animals 290 It is known to Europeans as the Père David Deer from the Naturalist Missionary who discovered it in 1865. 1955Times 11 May 12/7 Chief among them [sc. the Woburn deer] is the herd of 300 Père David's deer—a species now extinct in its native China and existing only at Woburn and in a few small offshoots (for example, at Whipsnade) from the Woburn herd. 1973G. Durrell Beasts in my Belfry v. 96 Undoubtedly the rarest animals in our care, a pair of young Père David deer. Ibid. 100 An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease..could have exterminated the Père David very successfully. 1975New Yorker 24 Mar. 34/2 The Père David deer, six hundred and forty extant, twenty-seven in the Bronx. |