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Jean Louis Cabanis ( March 8 , 1816February 20 , 1906 ) was a German Ornithologist .

Cabanis was born in Berlin . He studied at the University Of Berlin from 1835 to 1839 , and then travelled to North America , returning in 1841 with a large Natural History collection. He was assistant and later director of the Berlin University Museum , taking over from Martin Lichtenstein . He founded the '' Journal Für Ornithologie '' in 1853 , editing it for the next forty-one years, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law Anton Reichenow .