Colin Campbell Sanborn (1897–1962) was a US ecologist and biologist, employed as curator of birds and mammals at the

Field Museum of Natural History The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educationa ...

in Chicago. His works include taxonomic revisions of the

Chiroptera Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...

bat families, and he was recognised in the specific epithet of the broad-nosed bat '' Scotorepens sanborni''. In 1950, Sanborn received a request from the infamous murderer Nathan Leopold, asking for photo of the Kirtland's warblers that Leopold had donated to the museum as a young birder, years before his crime; Sanborn had to tell the Joliet prison inmate that the specimens had never been exhibited or photographed.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanborn, Colin Campbell 1897 births 1962 deaths American ornithologists American mammalogists 20th-century American zoologists