Hellmayr, Carl Eduard#

b. Vienna, Jan. 29, 1878, d. Orselina near Locarno (Switzerland), Feb. 24, 1944, ornithologist. From 1896 worked in museums in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Tring (United Kingdom), 1922-1931 at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he completed the Catalogue of Birds (started by C. B. Cory, 9 vols.). From 1931 in Vienna again, 1938 emigrated to London and to Switzerland.

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