Crypturellus kerriae (Chapman, 1915) (1 Viewer)

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Crypturellus kerriae (Chapman, 1915) OD here

Remarks. I have named this apparently distinct species in honor of Mrs. Elizabeth L. Kerr, the collector of the type and only known specimen, whose work in the Atrato Valley has added materially to our knowledge of the avifauna of that part of Colombia.

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds

Choco Tinamou Crypturellus kerriae Chapman, 1915
Mrs Elizabeth L. Kerr (DNF) was an American who travelled in Colombia (1905). She collected the type specimen of the tinamou. Chapman wrote that her '... work in the Atrato Valley has added materially to our knowledge of the avifauna of that part of Colombia.'

The Key to Scientific Names

Elizabeth L. Kerr (fl. 1915) US traveller, collector in Colombia 1905 (Crypturellus).

Asume she here to old at time of collection. We can find as well:

The Mrs. Kerr Collections. - In 1908 the American Museum purchased from an American woman, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Kerr, one hundred and ninetyfour bird skins which she had collected in Colombia west of Honda, in the Magdalena Valley and on the eastern slopes of the Central Andes up to an altitude of 3000 feet.

 

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Elizabeth "Libby" Lee Kerr (1857-1936)

BIRTH 14 SEP 1857 • Tooele, Tooele, Utah
DEATH 18 July 1936 • Cartagena, Colombia

She had 24 siblings!

First Spouse: Jasper Mathey (1834-1893)
Second Spouse Jack Burke (d. 1900)
Thirds Spouse Kerr

Exploration in the Choco Intendancy of Colombia on JSTOR

W. Andrew Archer, Exploration in the Choco Intendancy of Colombia, The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 44, No. 5 (May, 1937), pp. 418-434

www.jstor.org

A bit sad (see attached)

 

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The key seem to be alive again as this is already corrected.

 

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This article is interesting (attached). From Collier's magazine for 13 July 1912. Incidentally, as she came to Colombia solely to collect then she was probably in Colombia only since Dec 1906 (contra her death certificate) as her first collections are from this date. She collected 2 birds in Acapulco in April 1906 and made a small collection in Costa Rica Between May and Sept 1906. There are 826 items in US museums from her including reptiles and mammals but no collections in any US museum after 1912.