Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi


Count Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi , was an Italian ornithologist.
In 1896 he was elected a member of the British Ornithologists' Union. Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi was also a "Tring" correspondent.
In 1911 he founded the Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, a scientific journal on ornithology, together with Filippo Cavazza, Francesco Chigi, Alessandro Ghigi, Giacinto Martorelli and Tommaso Salvadori. The journal still exists today.

Publications

In 1898 his first article in an English journal was published: 'Notes on some specimens of Anatidae in the late Count Ninni's collection,' in The Ibis.
In 1926 following the introduction of a national game law in for Italy in 1923 Oddi wrote a report on bird protection. He is best known as the author of Ornitologia Italiana, con 586 figure intercalate nel testo e 36 tavole colorate. Ulrico Hoepli editore libraio della real casa. Milano. 1929. pp. i-cli•-1-1046,pll. I-XXXVI.
1200 pages giving accounts of the 518 bird species and subspecies then recorded in Italy. The scientific nomenclature was up to date and vernacular names in Italian, French, German and English are provided for each species. A large number of local names was added for the common birds. There is a detailed and differential description of each species, and notes on distribution, breeding, eggs, habitat, song, and food. There are diagnoses of genera and a bibliography of nearly 1000 titles : 146.
Oddi's collection and library are in Museo Civico di Zoologia in Rome where a public gallery is devoted to part his bird collection .

Other

Oddi was on the Executive Committee of the International Ornithological Congress in Amsterdam in 1930.