CHAPMAN, FRANK M. (1864— ), American ornithol ogist, was born at Englewood, N.J. on June 12, 1864. From 1887 1908 he served as associate curator of ornithology and mammal ogy, and from then until the present time as curator of ornithol ogy, American Museum of Natural History. In 1897 he was elected president of the Linnaean Society of New York, and, in 1911, of the American Ornithologists' Union. He was originator of the habitat bird groups and seasonal bird exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, and was a pioneer in bird study with a camera in America. He acted as director of the Bureau of Publications of the American Red Cross (1917-18) and com missioner of the American Red Cross to Latin America (1918-19). He was associate editor of The Auk and is editor-in chief of Bird-Lore, which he founded in 1899. Since 1911 he has devoted much time to a study of the origin of Andean bird-life and has explored in the Andes.
His publications are: Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (1895) ; Bird-Life, a Guide to the Study of our Common Birds (1897) ; Bird Studies with a Camera (i9oo) ; A Color Key to North American Birds (1903); The Economic Value of Birds to the State (1903) ; The Warblers of North America (1907) ; Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist (1908) ; The Travels of Birds (1916) ; The Distri bution of Bird-Life in Colombia (1917) ; Our Winter Birds (1918) ; What Bird is That? (192o) ; Birds of the Urubamba Valley, Peru (1921) ; The Distribution of Bird-Life in Ecuador (1926) ; My Tropi cal Air Castle (1q29) ; also numerous papers on birds and mammals.