While perusing an old encyclopaedia to learn about "cicadas" ( here they are now singing by the hundreds: it is Spring in Brazil ) I found out about Chapman ( mentioned in Godunov- Cherdyntsev's recollections on "Father's Butterflies"):
 
Frank Milcher Chapman [ ( 1864-1945),US Ornithologist  who did pioneer work in popularizing bird study, etc...]
No entomologist Chapman.
 
Following DN's Commentaries to the sentence, on page 208, "(as did Chapman and...)",  I reached note 54: "VN had not yet invented a co-author" .   
 
Well!
 
Searching the Index I found in "C" Chapman's Green Hairstreak, 218,  leading to a sentence about Chapman's  "pathological specimen of avis"  (i.e: ornithology)
 
There was no other entry for the intriguing Chapman on page 208.     
 

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