Charles Swinhoe Colonel Charles Swinhoe ( 29 August 1836 - 2 December 1923 ) was an English naturalist and lepidopterist , who served in the British Army in India . He was a founder of the Bombay Natural History Society and a brother of the famous naturalist Robert Swinhoe . Swinhoe was at Kandahar with Lord Roberts in 1880 , and collected 341 birds there and on the march back to India . He contributed papers to The Ibis on the birds of southern Afghanistan and central India , and donated 300 bird skins from each country to the British Museum . He had one of the largest collections of Indian lepidoptera at the time , and wrote two volumes on moths as part of the Lepidoptera indica series , which he completed after the death of Frederic Moore . External references Obituary in The Ibis 1924 pp. 362-3 .  This English biographical article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . This article about an entomologist is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . This article about an ornithologist is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . This article about a British scientist is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : 1836 births | 1923 deaths | Place of birth missing | British Army officers | English entomologists | English ornithologists | English people stubs | Entomologist stubs | Ornithologist stubs | British scientist stubs In other languages : Français 