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Crax daubentoni Gray, GR 1867 OD pt.5 (1867) - List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum - Biodiversity Heritage Library (not clear for whom dedication is. It might necassary to check Temminck and/or Reichenbach))
Spermophila Daubentoni Gray, GR 1849 OD v.2 (1844-1849) - The genera of birds - Biodiversity Heritage Library based on t.1 - Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle - Biodiversity Heritage Library as he referenced to illustrations of Edmé-Louis Daubenton I would go for him.

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Daubenton's Parakeet Psittacula eques Boddaert, 1783 EXTINCT [Alt . Réunion Parakeet]
Edmé-Louis Daubenton (1732-1786) was a French naturalist, cousin of Louis Jean-Marie d'Aubenton (q.v.). Buffon (q.v.) engaged him to supervise the colour illustrations of Martinet's engravings for his Histoire Naturelle (1749–1789). The name of Daubenton is attached to this taxon because Boddaert's description of of Psittacula eques was based on one of the plates (collectively known as Planches nluminées) (1783).

Daubenton's Curassow Crax daubentoni G. R. Gray, 1867 [Alt. Yellow-knobbed Curassow]
Dr Louis Jean-Marie d'Aubenton (1716–1800) (more commonly Daubenton) was a French naturalist. His work covered many fields including comparative anatomy, plant physiology, palaeontology, mineralogy and experimental agriculture. He was Professor of Mineralogy at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and of Natural History at the School of Medicine. He became first Director of the Museum of Natural History, Paris (1793). His scientific descriptions included 182 species of quadrupeds, for the first section of Georges Buffon's (q.v.) work Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière (1794–1804). Daubenton was a strange man. Unusually for his day he was vegetarian, once saying: 'It is to be presumed that man, while he lives in a natural state and a graded climate, where the earth spontaneously produces every type of fruit, he feeds himself with these and does not eat animals.' G. R. Gray (q.v.) described the curassow from a specimen bought from Leadbeater (q.v.) some years earlier. It is possibly named after Edmé-Louis Daubenton (q.v.), as the original description is not clear. Three mammals are named after him.

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daubentoni
Edmé Louis d’Aubenton (or Daubenton) (1732-1788) French naturalist (Crax, syn. Serinus alario).

According Edme-Louis Daubenton - Wikipedia

(12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785)

Björn mentioned as well

Edmé Louis Daubenton (1730-1785) [Gouraud, 2014]

Björn added as well:

Or was/is both taxa commemorating his older Cousin: Louis Jean Marie Daubenton (1716–1799) ... ?!? Also he was a naturalist (and lexicographer).

The garve stone Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton - Wikipedia confirms 1799 as death year.

So there seems to be a inconstancy in the life dates of both and the question Daubenton or d'Aubenton? As well the question who may or may not the honored person.

Might be worth to check

Cowan, C.F. (1968). "The Daubentons and Buffon's Birds". Archives of Natural History. 5 (1): 37–40

P.S. No birds
Daubentonia É. Geoffroy, 1795 OD La Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique / par une société de républicains | 1794-12-30 | Gallica
Myotis daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817) OD https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankf...deliver/index/docId/21014/file/Q_327_5126.pdf S. 51
Myopterus daubentoni Desmaret 1820 OD pt.1 (1820) [Text] - Mammalogie, ou, Description des espèces de mammifères - Biodiversity Heritage Library

So I give the case for discussions.

 

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Crax daubentoni Gray, GR 1867 OD pt.5 (1867) - List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum - Biodiversity Heritage Library (not clear for whom dedication is. It might necassary to check Temminck and/or Reichenbach))

Gray 1867 cited Crax globicera of Temminck 1815 t.3 (1815) - Histoire naturelle generale des pigeons et des gallinaces - Biodiversity Heritage Library , and Temminck cited "Hocco faisan de la Guiane. Buff. Ois. pl. enl. 86. (Un jeune)." t.1 - Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle - Biodiversity Heritage Library , which is also a "Daubenton" plate.

 

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According Edme-Louis Daubenton - Wikipedia

Birth record: here, "FRAD021EC 424/003", "Registres paroissiaux et/ou d'état civil : 1712-1755", scan 296/836.

edme Louis fils de Louis Daubenton maitre chirurgien a montbard et edmée Ladrée né de legitime mariage le 12 aoust 1730 et batisé le mesme jour par nous curé soussigné lequel a eu pour parain edme bavouotte et pour maraine anne Daubenton sa soeur qui ne signent enquis.

There is a picture of his grave stone, in the Saint-Pierre church, in Avon (Seine-et-Marne), on his Wikipedia page :


Fairly hard-to-read death record : here, "Document 6E16/4 Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures. (1774-1792)", scan 198/352. He is called "aimé" [instead of Edmé] daubenton here, but there can be no real doubt that it's him indeed.

L'an mille sept cent quatre vingt cinq le douzième jour du mois de décembre est décédé sur la paroisse de St Pierre d'Avon [...] aimé daubenton de l'académie royale des sciences de nancy garde démonstrateur du cabinet du roi agé de cinquante cinq ans environ lequel a été enterré le lendemain dans le porche de notre eglise [etc.]

Thus (as we are told on Wikipedia) : born in Montbard (Côte-d'Or), 12 Aug 1730, died in Avon (Seine-et-Marne), 12 Dec 1785.

(No apostrophe in the family name in either record.)