Outram Bangs (January 12, 1863 – September 22, 1932) was an American

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

Biography

Bangs was born in

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, as the second son of Edward and Annie Outram (Hodgkinson) Bangs. He studied at Harvard from 1880 to 1884, and became Curator of Mammals at the Harvard

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in 1900. He died at his summer home at

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Works

''The Florida Deer''
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 10:25–28 (1896)
''The hummingbirds of the Santa Marta Region of Colombia''
American Ornithologists' Union, New York (1899)
''The Florida Puma''
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 13:15–17. (1899)
''The Mammals and Birds of the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama''
Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Bulletin 46 (8) : 137–160 (1905) with John Eliot Thayer
''Notes on the Birds and Mammals of the Arctic Coast of East Siberia''
New England Zoological Club, Proceedings, 5 : 1–66 (1914) with

Glover Morrill Allen Glover Morrill Allen (February 8, 1879 – February 14, 1942) was an American zoologist. He was born at Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen, and studied at Harvard University. While s ...

and J. E. Thayer
''A Collection of Birds from the Cayman Islands''
Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Bulletin 60:301–320 (1916)

Associated eponyms

*'' Bangsia'' – Tanager genus *''Grallaria bangsi'' – Santa Marta antpitta *''Syntheosciurus brochus'' – Bangs's mountain squirrel

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* * American ornithologists American taxonomists 1863 births 1932 deaths Harvard University alumni Harvard University staff People from Watertown, Massachusetts 19th-century American zoologists 20th-century American zoologists {{US-ornithologist-stub