Leonard Dupont

Léonard Puech Dupont (10 January 1796 – 7 February 1828) was a French naturalist, explorer, collector and trader of natural history specimens.

The family moved to Paris and Leonard began to collect specimens and was a regular at the Jardin des Plantes, interacting with other naturalists.

The group had to disguise themselves as Muslims and Leonard took the name of Mourad but refused to be circumcised and fell afoul of Ritchie.

Returning to France with a large set of specimens which were sold to naturalists resulted in several new species being described including Dupont's lark Chersophilus duponti.

[1] Dupont published Traite ́de taxidermie, ou l’art de conserver et d’empailler les animaux (1823) which was reviewed by Vieillot.