Carl Edward Hellmayr
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Carl Edward Hellmayr (January 29, 1878 - February 24, 1944) was an Austrian ornithologist.
Hellmayr was born in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna. In 1908 he was appointed Curator of the Bird Department at the Munich Museum, where he became a specialist in Neotropical birds, studying Johann Baptist von Spix's collection of Brazilian birds. He was made Curator in Zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1922. His books included 13 of the 15 volumes of the Catalogue of Birds of the Americas (1918-1949) and The Birds of Chile (with Henry Boardman Conover).
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- Neotropical ornithology: Then and now - Francois Vuilleumier
- Zimmer - In Memoriam - Carl Eduard Hellmayr
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