Henry Boardman Conover

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Henry Boardman Conover (January 18, 1892 – May 5, 1950) was an American soldier and amateur ornithologist.

Conover was born in Chicago and studied at the Sheffield Scientific School in Yale. He had an interest in natural history from an early age, and collected bird specimens. In 1920, he traveled to Venezuela with Wilfred Hudson Osgood on a collecting trip for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. They returned to South America in 1922, visiting Chile and Argentina. In 1926, Conover traveled to East Africa.

Conover donated his collection of specimens, mostly game birds, to the Field Museum. He made a large number of contributions to Carl Edward Hellmayr's The Catalogue of Birds of the Americas.

References

Gregory, Stephen S., Jr.; Rand, A. L. (1951). "Boardman Conover, 1892–1950". Auk 68 (1): 17–23. doi:10.2307/4080793.

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Name	Conover, Henry Boardman
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Short description	Soldier and amateur ornithologist
Date of birth	January 18, 1892
Place of birth	Chicago, United States
Date of death	May 5, 1950
Place of death	Chicago, United States

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