John Stanislaw Kubary

Who was John Stanislaw Kubary?

John Stanislaw Kubary, also stated as Jan Stanisław Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist and ethnographer.

In 1868 he became a collector for Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg.

Kubary discovered at least four bird species -- the Samoan Wood Rail, the Mariana Crow, the Caroline Islands Ground Dove, and the Pohnpei Fantail -- as well as numerous insects, among them the Paradise Birdwing. The peak Mount Kubari on New Guinea is named after him.