Vieillot
Proper noun
Meaning
Vieillot (plural Vieillots)
A French surname.
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Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748–1831) spent ten years studying North American birds and wrote the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale (1807–1808?).
Vieillot pioneered in the use of life-histories and habits in classification. citation Alexander Wilson composed a nine-volume work, American Ornithology, published 1808-14—the first such record of North American birds, significantly predating Audubon.