Background
Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel.
Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel.
He later studied medicine in Pisa and Rome.
He took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862. He participated in Garibaldi"s military expedition in Sicily (the Expedition of the Thousand), serving as a medical officer He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Turin in 1879.
He was a specialist in birds of Asia.
In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in London to work on their catalogues. Salvadori"s pheasant (Lophura inornata) is named after him as also the Papua monitor (Varanus salvadorii, Salvadori"s monitor, crocodile monitor, or artelia).
He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.
Zoological Society of London.