Editing Leonardo Fea (section)

==Biography==
Fea was born in [[Turin]], a son of Paolo Fea, who was professor of painting at [[Accademia Albertina]], and Anna Roda. In 1872 he became an assistant at the [[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova|Museum of Natural History]] in [[Genoa]]. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to [[Burma]] (1885–89) and the [[Cape Verde Islands]] (1898), the islands in the [[Gulf of Guinea]] ([[São Tomé Island|São Tomé]], [[Príncipe]], [[Bioko|Fernando Po]], [[Annobón]], 1900–02) and [[Kamerun|Cameroon]] and [[French Congo]] (1902).<ref name=DBI/> He spent four years in Burma, accumulating large collections of [[insects]] and birds. He then planned an expedition to [[Malaysia]], but his poor health made it necessary to choose somewhere with a drier climate, hence his visit to the Cape Verdes. He was disappointed by the amount of wildlife he found there, but was still able to collect forty-seven species of birds, eleven of which were new for the islands. His collections are in the [[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova|Genoa museum]].

While on the [[Cape Verde Islands]] Fea collected a specimen of an unknown [[petrel]]. This was named [[Fea's petrel]] in 1900 by his friend [[Tommaso Salvadori]].