Belon, Pierre, a French naturalist, one of the founders of natural history, and one of the precursors of Cuvier; wrote in different departments of natural history, the chief, “Natural History of Birds”; murdered by robbers while gathering plants in the Bois de Boulogne (1518‒1564).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Belloy * Bel`phegor