Chester Barlow (24 June 1874 - 9 November 1902) was an American cashier and amateur

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

who worked in California. He served as the secretary of the

Cooper Ornithological Club 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 b ...

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''. 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

where he, along with other members of the organization, studied the birds of California. Barlow documented the birds of the Sierras and the

Farallon Islands The Farallon Islands, or Farallones (from the Spanish ''farallón'' meaning "pillar" or "sea cliff"), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The island ...

apart from more local studies. The south Californian subspecies of the

chestnut-backed chickadee The chestnut-backed chickadee (''Poecile rufescens''), formerly ''Parus rufescens'', is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae. It is found in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and western Canada, from southern Alaska to sout ...

(''Poecile rufescens barlowi'') was named after him by Joseph Grinnell in 1900.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barlow, Chester 1874 births 1902 deaths American ornithologists