John Todd Zimmer

John Todd rooms ( born February 28, 1889 in Bridgeport, Ohio; † January 6, 1957 in White Plains, New York ) was an American ornithologist, entomologist, author, curator and chairman of the ornithological department of the American Museum of Natural History.

Life

His first career steps as naturalists were mainly affected by his life in Nebraska. Here he also included 1911 University of Nebraska- Lincoln from with undergraduate studies. A few years later, the conclusion followed a Master of Science. 1943, at the height of his career, he finally an honorary doctorate of science was awarded. At the beginning of his scientific career, rooms on the first specialized field of entomology. Despite his specialization he always had a focus on ornithology. So he collected during his time in college a variety of birds from Nebraska, which he bequeathed to the University of Nebraska. After his time at college he worked as a field entomologist for the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, which he also worked closely with the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States. In 1913 he went to the Ministry of Agriculture as Deputy Head of Department for pest control in the Philippines. Four years later he moved on to Port Moresby, where he worked as an expert for the Ministry of Agriculture of Papua New Guinea. Here he also met Margaret Thompson, whom he married in 1917.

Both had two children together, a son named Lawrence Thompson room and a daughter named Ida Elithabeth room Sprague. His wife died in October 1944. Relatively little from his time in Southeast Asia known. Nevertheless, he published in 1918 in the Philippine Journal of Science two articles on the birds of the Philippines. The birds, which he had collected in Southeast Asia, he sold to the American Museum of Natural History. Ernst Mayr use the birds of Papua New Guinea for his book List of New Guinea birds: a systematic and faunal list of the birds of New Guinea and Adjacent islands. After his return to the U.S. he worked for a short time at the Museum of the University of Nebraska. But soon he got an offer from the Field Museum of Natural History. Here he published together with Wilfred Hudson Osgood two volumes of the Catalogue of the Ayer Ornithological Library. During his time in Chicago, he also took part in the Conover - Everard expedition in Africa, as well as sponsored by Berthold Laufer and David Charles Davies Captain Marshall expedition in Peru. In particular, the time in Peru produced numerous publications under the name of Studies of Peruvian Birds.

Room for neotropical birds interest was piqued. It was Carl Eduard Hellmayr and Frank Michler Chapman, who lured him in 1930 as deputy curator to the American Museum of Natural History. 1935 followed the ascent to the executive curator, 1942 Curator. To William Henry Phelps Senior in Caracas he had an intense working relationship. He attended Phleps twice and published together with him articles about birds from Venezuela. Also to James Lee Peters he had a very good rapport. In 1942 Glover Morrill Allen died, he also assumed the post of editor of the ornithological journal The Auk. James Paul Chapin, the former president of the American Ornithologists ' Union, hit him before seinzeits for this position. In 1954, he took over from Robert Cushman Murphy chaired the ornithological department in the museum. Shortly time on sick room hard that he eventually ended up in a wheelchair.

Honors

In 1952 room for his careful records and contributions to the avifauna of the birds of South America, the William Brewster Medal. The decision committee explained the decision in its report with the words:

"His report series began in 1931 and runs until the present day. All were published in the journal " American Museum Novitates " under the title " Studies of Peruvian Birds". They contain a extremely thoroughly researched and error-free taxonomic classification of the majority of all South American genera. The reports provide an excellent foundation for students of the avifauna of South America; they are characterized by a high degree of precision, a good taxonomic assessment and Comprehensiveness. "

He was a Fellow of both The Explorers Club of New York, and the American Ornithologists ' Union.

Dedikationsnamen

In 1977, Melvin Alvah Traylor dedicated junior room the genus Zimmerius for his contributions to the systematics of neotropical birds and the unique contributions to the patterns on the wings of this genus. Osgood named 1936, a type of white toothed shrews from the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo with the name Crocidura zimmeri. Also, the Ferruginous thicket panties ( Synallaxis zimmeri ) ( Koepcke, 1957) and the Graukehltapaculo ( Scytalopus zimmeri ) ( Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1940) to honor room in their scientific name. In English, was a subspecies of the Yellow-bellied Breitschnabel tyrants ( Tolmomyias flaviventris ) (Wied - Neuwied, 1831), the trivial name Zimmer's Flatbill ( Tolmomyias zimmeri flaviventris ) ( Bond, 1947) collection.

Other authors named a subspecies in honor room. Among other things, the following subspecies rooms were dedicated:

Subspecies of Saphiramazilie ( Amasilia lactea ) ( Lesson, 1832) called (A. l zimmeri ) ( Gilliard, 1941)
Subspecies of ocher breast Buschammer ( Atlapetes semi rufus ) ( Boissonneau, 1840) named A. s zimmeri ( Meyer de Schauensee, 1947)
Subspecies of the black breast Bergtangare ( Buthraupis eximia ) ( Boissonneau, 1840) called as e zimmeri ( Moore, RT, 1934)
Subspecies of the Long-tailed Woodcreeper ( Deconychura longicauda ) ( Pelzeln, 1868) called D. l zimmeri ( Pinto, 1974)
Subspecies of brown breast Todityrann ( Hemitriccus obsoletus ) ( Ribeiro, 1906) called H. o zimmeri ( Traylor, 1979)
Subspecies of Nacktgesichttäubchen ( Metriopelia ceciliae ) ( Lesson, 1845) named M. c. zimmeri (Peters, JL, 1937)

First descriptions

Room was the first author of a species, as well as numerous species and subspecies.

Genera

Long-tailed hummingbirds ( Aglaiocercus ) ( Room, 1930)

Birds

The following new species have been described by some room along with William Henry Phelps:

Wetmoreralle ( Rallus wetmorei ) ( Room & Phelps, 1944)
Tepuitinamu ( Crypturellus ptaritepui ) ( Room & Phelps, 1945)
Cardona Warbler ( Myioborus cardonai ) ( Room & Phelps, 1945)
Black spots dwarf woodpecker ( Picumnus nigropunctatus ) ( Room & Phelps, 1950)
Yellow -throated Ant panties ( Myrmotherula ambigua ) (Zimmer, JT, 1932)
Pink-footed ants panties ( Myrmotherula obscura ) (Zimmer, JT, 1932)
Room Woodcreeper ( Xiphorhynchus necopinus ) ( Room, 1934)
Marcapata Tree panties ( Cranioleuca marcapatae ) (Zimmer, JT, 1935)
Southern Black Ameisenwürger ( Thamnophilus praecox ) (Zimmer, JT, 1937)
Graufußtinamu ( Crypturellus duidae ) ( Room, 1938)
Schopfschnäppertyrann ( Xenotriccus mexicanus ) ( Room, 1938)
Ancashtapaculo ( Scytalopus affinis ) (Zimmer, JT, 1939)
Neblinatapaculo ( Scytalopus altirostris ) (Zimmer, JT, 1939)
Trillertapaculo ( Scytalopus parvirostris ) (Zimmer, JT, 1939)
Vilcabambatapaculo ( Scytalopus urubambae ) (Zimmer, JT, 1939)
Nariñotapaculo ( Scytalopus vicinior ) (Zimmer, JT, 1939)
Maskensaltator ( Saltator cinctus ) ( Room, 1943)
White-chinned Swift ( Cypseloides Cryptus ) ( Room, 1945)
Rothschild Swift ( Cypseloides Rothschildi ) ( Room, 1945)
Blauschwanztrogon ( Trogon comptus ) ( Room, 1948)
Chacopieper (Anthus chacoensis ) ( Room, 1952)
Grey flights Lammer ( Incaspiza ortizi ) ( Room, 1952)
Ocher breast Todityrann ( Hemitriccus kaempferi ) ( Room, 1953)

Writings

John Todd rooms, Wilfred Hudson Osgood: Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library, Martino Pub, 1996, ISBN 978-1-888262-07-0
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: New species and subspecies of birds from Venezuela, Issue 1270 of American Museum Novitates, Volume 1, 1944
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: New species and subspecies of birds from Venezuela, Issue 1274 of American Museum Novitates, Volume 2, 1944
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: Twenty -three new subspecies of birds from Venezuela and Brazil, Issue 1312 of American Museum Novitates, 1946
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: Four new subspecies of birds from Venezuela, Issue 1395 of American Museum Novitates, 1949
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: A new name for Basileuterus culicivorus roraimae, Issue 1412 of American Museum Novitates, 1949
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: Three new Venezuelan birds, Issue 1455 of American Museum Novitates, 1950
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: New subspecies of birds from Surinam and Venezuela, Issue 1511 of American Museum Novitates, 1951
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps: New birds from Venezuela, Issue 1544 of American Museum Novitates, 1952
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps, Ernest Thomas Gilliard: A new race of the honey -creeper, Diglossa cyanea, from Venezuela, Issue 1603 of American Museum Novitates, 1952
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps, George Kruck Cherrie, Stella M. Cherrie: Three new subspecies of birds from Venezuela, Issue 1709 of American Museum Novitates, 1955
John Todd Room, William Henry Phelps, Albert Mocquerys: A new flycatcher from Venezuela: with remarks on the Mocquerys collection and the piculet, Picumnus squamulatus, Issue 1657 of American Museum Novitates, 1954
John Todd Room, Austin Paul Smith: The Central American forms of the musician wren, Cyphorhinus lawrencii, Issue 573 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Ernst Mayr, John Todd rooms: Birds collected falling on the Whitney South Sea Expedition: Notes on Neolalage banksiana (Gray), Volume 26, Issue 665 of American Museum Novitates, 1933
Charles Vaurie, John Todd Room: An ornithological gazetteer of Peru: based on information compiled by JT Rooms, Issue 2491 of American Museum Novitates, 1972
The Pentatomidae of Nebraska, Nebraska University Studies, 1911
Birds of the Thomas County Forest Reserve, Proc. Nebraska Ornith. Union, 1913
A few rare birds from Luzon, Mindanao and Mindoro, Philippine Journal of Science, 1918
Some notes on the birds of Southern Palawan and Adjacent islands, Philippine Journal of Science, 1918
The turkey wild, Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological leaflet, 1924
New birds from central Peru, Museum of Natural History, Zoological series, 1924
Two new birds from Peru, Museum of Natural History, Zoological series, 1925
John Todd rooms, Wilfred Hudson Osgood: Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. In: Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series. Vol 16, No. 239 (Part 1 ), 1926 p 1-364 (online, accessed on 16 February 2014).
John Todd rooms, Wilfred Hudson Osgood: Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. In: Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series. Vol 16, No. 240 (Part 2 ), 1926, pp. 365-706 (online, accessed on 16 February 2014).
A study of the tooth -billed red tanager Piranga flava, Museum of Natural History, Zoological series, 1929
The birds of the neotropical genus Deconychura, Museum of Natural History, Zoological series, 1929
Birds of the Marshall Field Peruvian Expedition, 1922-1923, Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series, 1930
Obituary: Frank Michler Chapman, American Naturalist, 1946, Vol 80, page 476-481
In Memoriam -Carl Eduard Hellmayr. The Auk, Vol 61, Oct 1944, pp. 616-622
Notes on tyrant flycatchers ( Tyrannidae ), Issue 1605 of American Museum Novitates, 1953
Studies of Peruvian birds: New and other birds from Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, Volume 1, Issue 500 of American Museum Novitates, 1931
Studies of Peruvian birds: Peruvian forms of the genera Micro Bates, Ramphocaenus, Sclateria, Pyriglena, Pithys, Drymophila, and Liosceles, Volume 2, Issue 509 of American Museum Novitates, 1931
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Myrmotherula in Peru, with notes on extralimital forms, Volume 3, Part 1, Issue 523 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Myrmotherula in Peru, with notes on extralimital forms, Volume 3, Part 2, Issue 524 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Herpsilochmus, Microrhopias, Formicivora, Hypocnemis, Hypocnemoides, and Myrmochanes, Volume 5, Issue 538 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Studies of Peruvian birds: The Formicarian genera Myrmoborus and Myrmeciza in Peru, Volume 6, Issue 545 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Pygiptila, Megastictus, Dysithamnus, Thamnomanes, Cercomacra, and Phlegopsis, Volume 7, Issue 558 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Studies of Peruvian birds: The Formicarian genera Cymbilaimus, Thamnistes, Terenura, Peronostola, Formicarius, Chamaeza, and Rhegmatorhina, Volume 8, Issue 584 of American Museum Novitates, 1932
Studies of Peruvian birds: The formicarian genus Thamnophilus, Volume 10, Part 1, Issue 646, American Museum Novitates, 1933
Studies of Peruvian birds: The formicarian genus Thamnophilus, Volume 10, Part 2, Issue 647, American Museum Novitates, 1933
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera and Taraba Sakesphorus, Volume 11, Issue 668, American Museum Novitates, 1933
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on Hylophylax, Myrmothera, and Grallaria, Volume 12, Issue 703, American Museum Novitates, 1934
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Dendrexetastes, Campyloramphus, and Dendrocincla, Volume 13, Issue 728, American Museum Novitates, 1934
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Dendrocolaptes, Hylexetastes, Xiphocolaptes, Dendroplex, and Lepidocolaptes, Volume 14, Issue 753, American Museum Novitates, 1934
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genus Xiphorhynchus, Volume 15, Issue 756, American Museum Novitates, 1934
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Glyphorhynchus, Sittasomus, Deconychura, Margarornis, Premnornis, Premnoplex, and Sclerurus, Volume 16, Issue 757, American Museum Novitates, 1934
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Syndactyla, Anabacerthia, Philydor, and Automolus, Volume 17, Issue 785, American Museum Novitates, 1935
Studies of Peruvian birds: Diagnoses of new species and subspecies of Furnariidae from Perú and other parts of South America, Volume 18, Issue 819, American Museum Novitates, 1935
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Geositta, Furnarius, Phleocryptes, Certhiaxis, Cranioleuca, and Asthenes, Volume 19, Issue 860, American Museum Novitates, 1936
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genus Synallaxis, Volume 20, Issue 861, American Museum Novitates, 1936
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Pseudocolaptes, Hyloctistes, Hylocryptus, Thripadectes, and Xenops, Volume 21, Issue 862, American Museum Novitates, 1936
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the Pipridae, Volume 22, Issue 889, American Museum Novitates, 1936
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on Doliornis, Pipreola, Attila, Laniocera, Rhytipterna, and Lipaugus, Issue 23, Issue 893, American Museum Novitates, 1936
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on Pachyramphus, Platypsaris, Tityra, and Pyroderus, Issue 24, Issue 894, American Museum Novitates, 1936
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Thamnophilus, Thamnocharis, Gymnopithys, and Ramphocaenus, Issue 25, Issue 917, American Museum Novitates, 1937
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Agriornis, Muscisaxicola, Myiotheretes, Ochthoeca, Colonia, Knipolegus, Phaeotriccus, Fluvicola, and Ramphotrigon, Issue 26, Issue 930, American Museum Novitates, 1937
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Muscivora, Tyrannus, Empidonomus, and Sirystes, WITH FURTHER notes on Knipolegus, Issue 27, Issue 962, American Museum Novitates, 1937
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Myiodynastes, Conopias, Myiozetetes, and Pitangus, Issue 28, Issue 963, American Museum Novitates, 1937
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Myiarchus, Mitrephanes, and Cnemotriccus, Issue 29, Issue 994, American Museum Novitates, 1938
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Contopus, Empidonax, Terenotriccus, and Myiobius, Issue 30, Issue 1042 of American Museum Novitates, 1939
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Myiotriccus, Pyrrhomyias, Myiophobus, Onychorhynchus, Platyrinchus, Cnipodectes, Sayornis, and Nuttallornis, Issue 31, Issue 1043, American Museum Novitates, 1939
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Scytalopus, Issue 32, Issue 1044, American Museum Novitates, 1939
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Tolmomyias and Rhynchocyclus WITH FURTHER notes on Ramphotrigon, Issue 33, Issue 1045, American Museum Novitates, 1939
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Todirostrum, Euscarthmornis, Snethlagea, Poecilotriccus, Lophotriccus, Myiornis, Pseudotriccus and Hemitriccus, issue 34, issue 1066, American Museum Novitates, 1940
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Phylloscartes, Euscarthmus, Pseudocolopteryx, Tachuris, Spizitornis, Yanacea, Uromyias, Stigmatura, Serpophaga, and Mecocerculus, Issue 35, Issue 1095, American Museum Novitates, 1940
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Elaenia and Myiopagis, Issue 36, Issue 1108 of American Museum Novitates, 1941
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Sublegatus, Phaeomyias, Camptostoma, Xanthomyias, Phyllomyias, and Tyranniscus, Issue 37, Issue 1109, American Museum Novitates, 1941
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Vireo, Issue 39, Issue 1127, American Museum Novitates, 1941
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genus Veniliornis, Issue 40, Issue 1159, American Museum Novitates, 1942
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Hylophilus, Smaragdolanius, and Cyclarhis, Issue 41, Issue 1160, American Museum Novitates, 1942
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Polioptila, Issue 42, Issue 1168, American Museum Novitates, 1942
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Dacnis, Xenodacnis, Coereba, Conirostrum, and Oreomanes, Issue 43, Issue 1193, American Museum Novitates, 1942
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on the genera Diglossa and Cyanerpes, with addenda to Ochthoeca, Issue 44, Issue 1203 of American Museum Novitates, 1942
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Tersina, Chlorophonia, Tanagra, Tanagrella, Chlorochrysa, and Pipraeidea, Issue 45, Issue 1225, American Museum Novitates, 1943
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Tangara, Issue 46, Issue 1245, Part 1, American Museum Novitates, 1943
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genus Tangara, Issue 46, Issue 1246, Part 2, American Museum Novitates, 1943
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Iridosornis, Delothraupis, Anisognathus, Buthraupis, Compsocoma, Dubusia, and Thraupis, Issue 48, Issue 1262, American Museum Novitates, 1944
Studies of Peruvian birds: Notes on Frederickena and Ochthoeca, Issue 49, Issue 1263, American Museum Novitates, 1944
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Ramphocelus Piranga, Habia, Lanio, and Tachyphonus, Issue 50, Issue 1304 of American Museum Novitates, 1945
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Chlorothraupis, Creurgops, Eucometis, Trichothraupis, Nemosia, Hemithraupis, and Thlypopsis, with additional notes on Piranga, Issue 51, Issue 1245, American Museum Novitates, 1947
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Sericossypha, Cholorospingus, Cnemoscopus, Hemispingus, Conothra Upis, Chlorornis, Lamprospiza, American Museum Novitates, Issue 52, Issue 1367, 1947
Studies of Peruvian birds: The family Trogonidae, Issue 53, Issue 1380, American Museum Novitates, 1948
Studies of Peruvian birds: The families Catamblyrhynchidae and Parulidae, Issue 54, Issue 1428, American Museum Novitates, 1949
Studies of Peruvian birds: The hummingbird genera Doryfera, Glaucis, Threnetes, and Phaethornis, Issue 55, Issue 1449, American Museum Novitates, 1950
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Eutoxeres, Campylopterus, Eupetomena, and Florisuga, Issue 56, Issue 1450, American Museum Novitates, 1950
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Colibri, Anthracothorax, Klais, Lophornis, and Chlorestes, Issue 57, Issue 1463, American Museum Novitates, 1950
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Chlorostilbon, Thalurania, Hylocharis, and Chrysuronia, Issue 58, Issue 1474, American Museum Novitates, 1950
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera polytmus, Leucippus, and Amasilia, Issue 59, Issue 1475, American Museum Novitates, 1950
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Heliodoxa, Phlogophilus, Urosticte, Polyplancta, Adelomyia, Coeligena, Ensifera, Oreotrochilus and Topaza, Issue 60, Issue 1513, American Museum Novitates, 1951
Studies of Peruvian birds: The genera Aglaeactis, Lafresnaya, Pterophanes, Boissonneaua, Heliangelus, Eriocnemis, Haplophaedia, Ocreatus, and Lesbia, Issue 61, Issue 1540, American Museum Novitates, 1951
Studies of Peruvian birds: The hummingbird genera Patagona, Sappho, Polyonymus, Ramphomicron, Metallura, Chalcostigma, Taphrolesbia, and Aglaiocercus, Issue 62, Issue 1595, American Museum Novitates, 1952
Studies of Peruvian birds: The hummingbird genera Oreonympha, Schistes, Heliothryx, Loddigesia, Heliomaster, Rhodopis, Thaumastura, Calliphlox, Myrtis, Myrmia, and Acestrura, Issue 63, Issue 1604 of American Museum Novitates, 1953
Studies of Peruvian birds: The swifts: family Apodidae, Issue 64, Issue 1609, American Museum Novitates, 1953
Studies of Peruvian birds: The jays ( Corvidae ) and pipits ( Motacillidae ), Edition 65, Issue 1649, American Museum Novitates, 1953
Studies of Peruvian birds: The swallows ( Hirundinidae ), Edition 66, Issue 1723, American Museum Novitates, 1953

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