Chester Barlow

Last updated March 19, 2019

Chester Barlow (24 June 1874 - 9 November 1902) was an American cashier and amateur ornithologist who worked in California. He served as the secretary of the Cooper Ornithological Club and he encouraged others to publish in its bulletin on aspects of breeding of the local birds. He also served as the editor for the journals Oologist, The Nidiologist and The Condor .

The Cooper Ornithological Society (COS), formerly the Cooper Ornithological Club, was an American ornithological society. It was founded in 1893 in California and operated until 2016. Its name commemorated James Graham Cooper, an early California biologist. It published the ornithological journal The Condor and the monograph series Studies in Avian Biology. It presented the annual Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given for lifetime achievement in ornithological research and was a member of the Ornithological Council.

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Barlow was born in San Jose to Charles Bennett Barlow and Syrena M. Nye. After studying at the local high school he worked as a cashier at the Santa Clara Valley Bank in Santa Clara. He became a member of the Cooper Ornithological Club where he, along with other members of the organization, studied the birds of California.^[1]

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Barlow documented the birds of the Sierras and the Farallon Islands apart from more local studies.^[2]

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The south Californian subspecies of the chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens barlowi) was named after him by Joseph Grinnell in 1900.^[3]

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References

↑ Taylor, Henry Reed (1903). "In Memoriam: Chester Barlow" (PDF). Condor. 5 (1): 3–7.
↑ Grinnell, Joseph (1903). "The Ornithological Writings of Chester Barlow" (PDF). The Condor. 5: 8–10. doi:10.2307/1361421. JSTOR 1361421.
↑ Grinnell, Joseph (1904). "The Origin and Distribution of the Chest-Nut-Backed Chickadee" (PDF). The Auk. 21 (3): 364. doi:10.2307/4070199. JSTOR 4070199.

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[1] Taylor, Henry Reed (1903). "In Memoriam: Chester Barlow" (PDF). Condor. 5 (1): 3–7.

[2] Grinnell, Joseph (1903). "The Ornithological Writings of Chester Barlow" (PDF). The Condor. 5: 8–10. doi:10.2307/1361421. JSTOR 1361421.

[3] Grinnell, Joseph (1904). "The Origin and Distribution of the Chest-Nut-Backed Chickadee" (PDF). The Auk. 21 (3): 364. doi:10.2307/4070199. JSTOR 4070199.