Charles B. Cory

Charles B. Cory
Charles Barney Cory.


Charles Barney Cory (January 31, 1857 – July 31, 1921) was an American ornithologist and golfer.

Biography

Cory was born in Boston. His father had made a fortune from a large import business, ensuring that his son never had to work. At the age of sixteen Cory developed an interest in ornithology and began a skin collection. Due to his ability to travel anywhere he wished this soon became the best collection of birds of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico in existence.

Cory was a director in many corporations.[1] He briefly attended Harvard and the Boston University School of Law but soon left to continue his travelling. In 1883 he was one of the forty-eight ornithologists invited to become Founders of the American Ornithologists' Union. When Cory's collection of 19,000 bird specimens became too large to keep in his house he donated them to The Field Museum in Chicago, and he was given the position of Curator of Ornithology. Cory's collection of 600 ornithological volumes were purchased by Edward E. Ayer in 1894, and in turn donated to the museum.[2] Cory lost his entire fortune in 1906, and took a salaried position at the museum as Curator of Zoology, remaining there for the rest of his life.

Cory wrote many books, including The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo (1885), The Birds of the West Indies (1889) and The Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin (1909). His last major work was the four-part Catalogue of the Birds of the Americas, which was completed after his death by Carl Edward Hellmayr.

Cory was the first person to describe Cory's Shearwater as a species. It had previously been described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1769, but he had believed it to be a race of another shearwater.

Cory participated in the 1904 Summer Olympics as a golfer. He competed in the individual event but did not finish.

Works

  • Birds of the Bahama islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species (Boston, 1880).
  • Catalogue of West Indian birds, containing a list of all species known to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad (Boston, 1892).
  • The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian (Field Columbian Museum, 1899).
  • The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin (Chicago, 1909).
  • Descriptions of new birds from South America and adjacent islands (Chicago, 1915).
  • How to know the ducks, geese and swans of North America, all the species being grouped according to size and color (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1897).
  • How to know the shore birds (Limicolæ) of North America (south of Greenland and Alaska) all the species being grouped according to size and color (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1897).
  • Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state (1896, Nachdruck 1970).
  • The mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin (Chicago, 1912).
  • Montezuma’s castle, and other weird tales (1899).
  • Notes on little known species of South American birds with descriptions of new subspecies (Chicago, 1917).
  • Southern rambles (A. Williams & company, Boston, 1881).
  • Descriptions of new birds from South America and adjacent Islands... (1915).
  • Descriptions of twenty-eight new species and subspecies of neotropical birds...
  • Notes on South American birds, with descriptions of new subspecies... (1915).
  • Beautiful and curious birds of the world (1880).
  • The birds of the Leeward Islands, Caribbean Sea (Chicago, 1909).
  • The birds of the West Indies (Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1889).
  • Descriptions of apparently new South American birds (Chicago, 1916).
  • Descriptions of twenty-eight new species and sub-species of neotropical birds (Chicago, 1913).
  • Hypnotism and mesmerism (A. Mudge & Son, Boston, 1888).
  • A list of the birds of the West Indies (Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1885).
  • A naturalist in the Magdalen Islands; giving a description of the islands and list of the birds taken there, with other ornithological notes (1878).

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