HARRIS, Charles Miller

HARRIS, Charles Miller ( - ) British naturalist, collector, and taxidermist at Tring, the private museum of Baron Walter Rothschild. Harris discovered the Galapagos Islands flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), as a member of the Rothschild-sponsored expedition to the Galapagos (1897-1898). The bird was named for him—Harris's Flightless Cormorant.

Harris was on Isla Guadalupe in 1907. He took several elephant seal specimens which were sent to the Rothschild museum. At the time, he said there were "a few left that he did not shoot." C. H. Townsend reported that Harris saw about 40 animals and killed 14. [Zoologica, New York Zool. Soc., 1(8) April 15, 1912]

• Harris, Charles Miller. A Cruise After Sea Elephants in Pacific Monthly 21:4 (331-339) April, 1909

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