Charles Vaurie

Charles Vaurie (7 July 1906 – 13 May 1975, Reading, Pennsylvania) was a French-born American ornithologist. He was born in Beaulieu sur Dordogne,^[1] France but moved to Trenton, New Jersey as a youth. He studied at New York University and then qualified as a dentist at the University of Pennsylvania in 1928.^[2]

An interest in painting

He described for the first time the

Partial bibliography

• A Revision of the bird family Dicruridae. N.Y., 1949.
• "Systematic notes on Palearctic birds". N.Y. 1956 (American Museum of Natural History, American Museum Novitates)
• A generic revision of Fly-catchers of the tribe Muscicapini. N.Y., 1953.
• "Notes on some Ploceidae from Western Asia"; "Notes on some Asiatic Finches"; "Notes on the bird genus Oenanthe in Persia, Afghanistan, and India;" and several other articles all published in the American Museum Novitates. N.Y., 1949–1952.
• "A generic revision of Flycatchers of the tribe Muscicapini". N.Y., 1953. pp.27 figs & 7 tables. Wrapp. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History – Vol. 100: Art. 4.
• The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna: a Systematic Reference (2 Vols. )1959
• Classification of the Ovenbirds (Furnariidae). London, 1971.
• Tibet and its birds. 1972

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