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	'''James Franklin''' (c. 1783 – 31 August 1834) was a ~~[[United Kingdom\|~~British]] [[soldier]]. He was the brother of Sir [[John Franklin]].		'''James Franklin''' (c. 1783 – 31 August 1834) was a British [[soldier]]. He was the brother of Sir [[John Franklin]].

	James Franklin entered the service of the [[~~British~~ East India Company]] as a cadet in 1805. He served with distinction on various Indian surveys and was elected a member of the [[Royal Society]]. He was in the 1st Bengal Cavalry and was an authority on geology. He undertook surveys of the [[Central Provinces]] ([[Vindhya Hills]]) and collected birds for [[the Asiatic Society]]. He collected about 40 species before reaching [[Benares]], and on reaching [[Saugor]] he had collected 160 more specimens and made paintings of these. In 1831 Franklin published descriptions of the birds that he had collected. He is now recognised as the [[taxonomic authority]] for six species:<ref>{{ cite journal \| last=Franklin \| first=James \| author-link=James Franklin (naturalist) \| year=1831 \| title=Catalogue of birds (systematically arranged) which were collected on the Ganges between Calcutta and Benares, and in the Vindhyian hills between the latter place and Gurrah Mundela, on the Nerbudda \| journal=Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London \| language=English, Latin \| volume=Part 1 \| issue=10 \| pages=114–125 \| url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861527 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web\| editor1-last=Gill \| editor1-first=Frank \| editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) \| editor2-last=Donsker \| editor2-first=David \| year=2018 \| title=IOC World Bird List Version 8.2 \| url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org \| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union \| accessdate=5 August 2018 }}</ref>		James Franklin entered the service of the British [[East India Company]] as a cadet in 1805. He served with distinction on various Indian surveys and was elected a member of the [[Royal Society]]. He was in the 1st Bengal Cavalry and was an authority on geology. He undertook surveys of the [[Central Provinces]] ([[Vindhya Hills]]) and collected birds for [[the Asiatic Society]]. He collected about 40 species before reaching [[Benares]], and on reaching [[Saugor]] he had collected 160 more specimens and made paintings of these. In 1831 Franklin published descriptions of the birds that he had collected. He is now recognised as the [[taxonomic authority]] for six species:<ref>{{ cite journal \| last=Franklin \| first=James \| author-link=James Franklin (naturalist) \| year=1831 \| title=Catalogue of birds (systematically arranged) which were collected on the Ganges between Calcutta and Benares, and in the Vindhyian hills between the latter place and Gurrah Mundela, on the Nerbudda \| journal=Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London \| language=English, Latin \| volume=Part 1 \| issue=10 \| pages=114–125 \| url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861527 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web\| editor1-last=Gill \| editor1-first=Frank \| editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) \| editor2-last=Donsker \| editor2-first=David \| year=2018 \| title=IOC World Bird List Version 8.2 \| url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org \| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union \| accessdate=5 August 2018 }}</ref>
	*[[White-eyed buzzard]]		*[[White-eyed buzzard]]
	*[[Indian eagle-owl]]		*[[Indian eagle-owl]]
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'''James Franklin''' (c. 1783 – 31 August 1834) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[soldier]]. He was the brother of Sir [[John Franklin]].

James Franklin entered the service of the [[British East India Company]] as a cadet in 1805. He served with distinction on various Indian surveys and was elected a member of the [[Royal Society]]. He was in the 1st Bengal Cavalry and was an authority on geology. He undertook surveys of the [[Central Provinces]] ([[Vindhya Hills]]) and collected birds for [[the Asiatic Society]]. He collected about 40 species before reaching [[Benares]], and on reaching [[Saugor]] he had collected 160 more specimens and made paintings of these. In 1831 Franklin published descriptions of the birds that he had collected. He is now recognised as the [[taxonomic authority]] for six species:<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Franklin | first=James | author-link=James Franklin (naturalist) | year=1831 | title=Catalogue of birds (systematically arranged) which were collected on the Ganges between Calcutta and Benares, and in the Vindhyian hills between the latter place and Gurrah Mundela, on the Nerbudda | journal=Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London | language=English, Latin | volume=Part 1 | issue=10 | pages=114–125 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861527 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=IOC World Bird List Version 8.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=5 August 2018 }}</ref>
*[[White-eyed buzzard]]
*[[Indian eagle-owl]]
*[[Rufous-tailed lark]]
*[[Oriental skylark]]
*[[Tawny-bellied babbler]]
*[[Indian spotted creeper]]

The specimens went to the [[Zoological Society of London]] but his paintings were stipulated to be returned to the Asiatic Society in [[Calcutta]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Kinnear | first=Norman | author-link=Norman Boyd Kinnear | year=1952 | title=The history of Indian mammalogy and ornithology. Part II Birds | journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society | volume=51 | issue=1 | pages=104–110 [106] | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48202138 }}</ref>

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