José Castulo de Jesús Zeledón Porras, Costa Rican ornithologist (Las Anonas, San Jose Province 24 March 1846 – Torino, Italy 16 July 1923)

Relative of former presidents of Costa Rica

Collected several thousand specimens, among which were a considerable number of new species (40 avian species and subspecies)

First to obtain the breeding of resplendent quetzal in captivity 

Described the subspecies Aramides albiventris plumbeicollis 1888

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Catalogue of the Birds of Costa Rica. Proceed. U.S. Nat. Museum 8:104-118, 1885

Catalogo de las aves de Costa Rica. Anales Museo Nac. Costa Rica 1:103-35, 1887

HONORS

Genus Zeledonia Ridgway 1889 (Aves)

Corresponding Member, American Ornithologists Union (1884)