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He was born to a wealthy family and grew up in in the Spanish Legislature , where he was a Liberal . On his return to Mexico after it declared independence, he held church positions including treasurer of the church at priest and politician Miguel Ramos Arizpe . {Link without Title} In biology, he and his collaborator Juan José Martínez De Lejarza were the first to systematically study the orchids of Michoacán . In 1824 they published a work describing about 50 species. In 1831 Llave was designated to direct the National Museum of Natural History. In 1832 and 1833 he published ornithological papers in a short-lived Mexican journal in which he described and named several birds, of which the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird (''Amazilia tzacatl'') and the much more famous Resplendent Quetzal (''Pharomachrus mocinno'') were new to science. Because of the obscurity of the journal, he didn't receive credit for a few decades, and some sources incorrectly give the date of the paper as 1871,[http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/domingo/archivo/revistad/2004/septiembre04/050904/dcultura.shtml , [http://omega.ilce.edu.mx:3000/sites/ciencia/volumen3/ciencia3/138/htm/sec_16.htm] possibly the date of a republication. Llave died in Córdoba in July, 1833. EXTERNAL LINK
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