Charles Chubb

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Charles Chubb (born December 31, 1851 in Steeple Langford near Salisbury, England; died June 25, 1924 in London) was a British ornithologist. He began working at the British Museum at the age of 26. He married twice, to Ada Albion and Alice Mabel Baker. He had seven children, among them Ernest Charles Chubb who also became an ornithologist and was a museum curator in Durban. In 1924 Charles Chubb was knocked down by a car outside the Natural History Museum and died two weeks later.

Among the birds he described are Cobb's Wren and the tinamou genus Crypturellus.

[edit] Works

• The Birds of British Guiana (2 volumes, 1916 and 1921)
• The Birds of South America (1912, with Lord Brabourne)

[edit] Reference

• Zoonomen, retreived 24/10/06