Charles Fleming (ornithologist)
He spent the last twenty years of his life studying the evolution and systematics of New Zealand cicadas.[4][5] Fleming was a Coastwatcher on the Cape Expedition in the Auckland Islands from 1942–1943 during World War II.[6][7] Fleming graduated from the University of Auckland in 1952 with a doctoral thesis on the geology of Whanganui.In 1997, Trevor H. Worthy commemorated Charles Fleming in the species' epithet of the prehistoric rail Pleistorallus flemingi from the mid-Pleistocene of New Zealand.[12] He was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1977 New Year Honours, for services to science and conservation.