Melbourne Armstrong Carriker

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Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. (born February 14, 1879 in Sullivan , Illinois , † July 27, 1965 in Bucaramanga , Colombia ) was an American ornithologist and entomologist who was mainly active in the Neotropics .

Live and act

Carriker was the son of a doctor from Nebraska. After attending college for two years, he worked as a hunter and bird collector. In December 1899, he published his first scientific paper on birds of prey in Nebraska. In 1902 he went on his first collecting expedition to Costa Rica. In 1910 he published a systematic list of 713 bird species. In 1907 he became an associate member of the American Ornithologists' Union . After two years of collecting in Venezuela, he moved to Colombia in 1911. In June 1912 he married the American Myrtle Carmelita Flye, with whom he ran the Vista Nieve coffee plantation in Colombia . The couple had five children. His son Melbourne Romaine (1915-2007) was a well-known marine biologist. Carriker continued his work as a bird collector, first in the area of ​​Vista Nieve and later in all of Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru. Carriker sold the bird hides first to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and after 1938 to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. By 1944 Carriker had collected 53,000 bird hides, including numerous new taxa such as Atlapetes rufinucha carrikeri , Aratinga wagleri minor and Pyrrhura picta subandina . He continued his work as a bird and insect collector until 1964, where he discovered the Antioquia Andean hummingbird ( Coeligena orina ), a species of hummingbird that was subsequently believed to be extinct until 2004. In 1922 he and Walter Edmond Clyde Todd wrote the work The birds of the Santa Marta region Colombia about the avifauna of the Santa Marta Mountains, for which the two were awarded the William Brewster Medal in 1925 .

In 1927 the Carrikers returned to the United States to improve their children's education. Melbourne Armstrong Carriker had a job offer with the Academy of Natural Sciences, but when it came time for Carriker's return to the United States, the Academy discovered there was no money to fill the position. The Carrikers sold their Vista Nieve plantation and moved to Beachwood , New Jersey . Carriker worked as a dealer until 1929 and was involved in local politics. After the funding of the Academy of Natural Sciences was secured in the fall of 1929, Carriker was given a position as curator. Between 1929 and 1938 he undertook four collective expeditions to Peru and three to Bolivia. In 1933 he became an elected member of the AOU. Immediately after his return from Bolivia in May 1938, Carriker was dismissed from the Academy of Natural Sciences for lack of money. From 1938 to 1939 he worked as a carpenter. In 1941, Carriker divorced Myrtle Carmelita Flye and moved his permanent residence to Popayán , Colombia. In 1944 he married Felisa Quintano Ropero. In 1940 Carriker was hired by the United States National Museum , for which he worked until 1952. Between 1952 and 1965 he was an associate at the Peabody Museum of Natural History , the Los Angeles County Museum , the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Institution , where he worked several times with Alexander Wetmore . In addition to his work as a bird collector, Carriker had an interest in the jaw lice (Mallophaga), about which he wrote numerous articles. Carriker published his last ornithological article in 1959. In 1961 he was elected a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union.

Works (selection)

  • An annotated list of the birds of Costa Rica including Cocos Island . In: Annals of the Carnegie Museum . tape 6 , 1910, pp. 314-915 ( online [accessed February 6, 2015]).
  • together with Walter Edmond Clyde Todd: The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: A study in altitudinal distribution . In: Annals of the Carnegie Museum . tape 14 , 1922, pp. 3–611 ( online [accessed January 11, 2015]).
  • Description of new birds from Peru and Bolivia . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 83 , 1931, pp. 455-467 ( online [accessed December 21, 2011]).
  • Additional new birds from Peru with a synopsis of the races of Hylophylax naevia . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 84 , 1932, pp. 1-7 .
  • Descriptions of New Birds from Bolivia, with Notes on Other Little-Known Species . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 87 , 1935, pp. 313-341 ( books.google.de ).
  • Descriptions of New Birds from Peru and Ecuador with critical Notes on other Little-known Species . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 87 , 1935, pp. 343-359 ( books.google.de ).
  • with Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: An annotated list of two collections of Guatemalan birds in the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 87 , 1935, pp. 411-455 ( books.google.de ).
  • Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga, Part I. - Lice of the tinamous . In: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . tape 88 , 1936, pp. 45-186 .
  • Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (III) [Tinamidae No. 2] . tape 95 , no. 3180 , 1944, pp. 81–233 ( online [accessed February 6, 2015]).
  • Studies in neotropical Mallophaga. XII Part 2. Lice of the tinamous . In: Revista Brasileira de Biologia . tape 13 , no. 4 , 1953, pp. 325–346 ( online (PDF; 766 kB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • Additions to the avifauna of Colombia . In: Novedades Colombianas . No. 1 , 1954, p. 14–19 ( online (PDF; 1.2 MB) [accessed February 6, 2015]).
  • The Menoponidae of the Cracidae and the genus Odontophorus. (Neotropical Mallophaga Miscellany Nº 8) . In: Novedades Colombianas . No. 1 , 1954, p. 19–31 ( online (PDF; 2.2 MB) [accessed February 6, 2015]).
  • Notes of the occurrence and distribution of certain species of Colombian birds . In: Novedades Colombianas . No. 2 , 1955, pp. 48–64 ( online (PDF; 2.1 MB) [accessed February 6, 2015]).
  • A new species and subspecies of Ardeiphagus from Colombia. (Neotropical Miscellany No 11) . In: Novedades Colombianas . No. 3 , 1957, pp. 163–166 ( online (PDF; 477 kB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • New records of rare birds from Nariño and Cauca and notes on others . In: Novedades Colombianas . No. 4 , 1959, pp. 196–199 ( online (PDF; 622 kB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • New species of Mallophaga from Colombia and United States (Neotropical Miscellany Nº 12) . No. 4 , 1959, pp. 205–213 ( online (PDF; 1.3 kB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • Itinerario del autor durante sus recolecciones en la región de Santa Marta, Colombia de junio de 1911 a octubre de 1918 . No. 4 , 1959, pp. 214–222 ( online (PDF; 2.3 kB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • New Species of Ardeicola (Mallophaga) from Colombian Hosts . In: Novedades Colombianas . No. 6 , 1960, pp. 317–329 ( online (PDF; 2.6 MB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • Itinerario del autor durante sus recolecciones en la región de Santa Marta, Colombia de junio de 1911 a octubre de 1918 . No. 6 , 1960, pp. 330-33 ( online (PDF; 742 kB) [accessed on February 6, 2015]).
  • Studies in neotropical Mallophaga, XVII: a new family (Trochiliphagidae) and a new genus of the lice of hummingbirds . In: Proceedings of The United States National Museum . tape 112 , 1960, pp. 307–342 ( online [accessed January 11, 2015]).
  • Carriker on Mallonphaga: Posthumous papers, catalog of forms described as new, and bibliography , 1967 (with Kary Cadmus Emerson)

literature

  • Melbourne Romaine Carriker: Vista Nieve: The remarkable, true adventures of an early twentieth-century naturalist and his family in Colombia, South America Blue Mantle Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-9665485-2-5
  • David A. Wiedenfeld, Melbourne Romaine Carriker: In Memoriam: Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. 1879-1965 . In: The Auk . tape 124 , no. 1 , 2007, p. 342–343 ( online (PDF; 98.8 kB) [accessed on January 11, 2015]).

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personal data
SURNAME Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Sullivan , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1965
Place of death Bucaramanga , Colombia