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James Paul Chapin

Columbia College, Class of 1916

Ornithologist; American Museum of Natural History curator.

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Ornithologist; American Museum of Natural History curator

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James Paul Chapin

Columbia & the Society

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Class of 1916 (Columbia College)

Works (48)

  1. 1910 The Toads of the Northeastern United States · Science
  2. 1917 The American Museum Congo expedition collection of bats /
  3. 1921 The Abbreviated Inner Primaries of Nestling Woodpeckers · The Auk
  4. 1921 West Africa the True Habitat of Glaucidium Tephronotum · The Auk
  5. 1921 XXXIII.—A note on the genus Lampribis in East and Central Africa · Ibis
  6. 1922 Inner Primaries of Woodpeckers · The Auk
  7. 1922 The Function of the Oesophagus in the Bittern's Booming · The Auk
  8. 1922 XXV.—On the Representatives of Corythornis leucogaster (Fraser) in the Cameroon and the Congo · Ibis
  9. 1923 Ecological Aspects of Bird Distribution in Tropical Africa · The American Naturalist
  10. 1923 Phyllanthus czarnikowi O.-Grant Synonymous with P. bohndorffi (Sharpe) · The Auk
  11. 1923 Pseudospermestes Not a Valid Genus · The Auk
  12. 1925 VII.—A new Swallow from Cameroon · Ibis
  13. 1926 A New Genus, Acentrortyx, Proposed for Francolinus Nahani Dubois · The Auk
  14. 1929 Eye-Color as a Subspecific Character inColius striatus · Journal für Ornithologie
  15. 1929 Larus minutus Seen in Upper New York Bay · The Auk
  16. 1929 Nomenclature and Systematic Position of the Paradise Whydahs · The Auk
  17. 1932 In Memoriam: Waldron Dewitt Miller, 1879-1929 · The Auk
  18. 1932 The Birds of the Belgian Congo, Part 1 · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 65
  19. 1933 Little Gull Again in Upper New York Bay · The Auk
  20. 1933 Ornithological Studies in Central Africa · Geographical Review
  21. 1936 Little Gulls Again in New York Harbor · The Auk
  22. 1937 A remarkable new Gallinaceous bird from the Belgian Congo. · Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
  23. 1942 Birds Collected by Loveridge in Eastern Africa Scientific Results of a Fourth Expedition to Forested Areas in East and Central Africa, II, Birds James L. Peters Arthur Loveridge · The Auk
  24. 1944 Oriolus percivali a Valid Race of O. monacha · The Auk
  25. 1945 CHAPTER XXIII Geography · Belgium
  26. 1946 The Range of Francolinus finschi Extended Northward · The Auk
  27. 1947 Color Variation in Shrikes of the Genus Chlorophoneus · The Auk
  28. 1948 A New Genus of Sylviidae from the Vicinity of Lake Tanganyika · The Auk
  29. 1948 A New Race of Bearded Bulbul from the Belgian Congo · The Auk
  30. 1948 Neocichla gutturalis (Bocage) Is a Starling · The Auk
  31. 1948 The Systematic Position of Xenocopsychus ansorgei · The Auk
  32. 1948 Two new passerine birds from Angola · Annals of the Carnegie Museum
  33. 1948 Variation and Hybridization Among the Paradise Flycatchers of Africa · Evolution
  34. 1950 Sousa's Shrike in Tanganyika Territory · The Auk
  35. 1950 The-Roseate Pelicans of Africa · Ostrich
  36. 1951 The African Emerald Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx cupreus · The Auk
  37. 1952 Campethera Cailliautii and Prrmista Are Conspecific. · Ibis
  38. 1952 Stability in Nomenclature ? an Agapornis Case. · Ibis
  39. 1954 A Juba River Race of Klaas's Cuckoo · The Auk
  40. 1954 House Martin and Swift from Ascension Island · The Auk
  41. 1954 The Calendar of Wideawake Fair · The Auk
  42. 1959 Breeding Cycles of Nectarinia Purpureiventris and Some Other Kivu Birds · Ostrich
  43. 1959 The Wideawake Calendar, 1953 to 1958 · The Auk
  44. 1962 Sibling Species of Small African Honey‐guides · Ibis
  45. 1963 The Supposed “GREY Mutants” of Terpsiphone Viridis · Ibis
  46. 1964 Correspondence · Ibis
  47. 1964 Les oiseaux du nord-ouest de l'Afrique Distribution géographique, écologie, Migration, Reproduction Henri Heim de Balsac Noël Mayaud · The Auk
  48. 1964 Obituary · Ostrich

Primary sources

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916)

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 257

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) Leaf / page 851

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

The Foundation's research archive

Philolexian Annals 1912, Roll of Members

James P. Chapin · Confidence: CERTAIN

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