Winthrop Sprague Brooks* (1887-08-06 - 1965-02-16) person

B.A. Harvard 1909. Collected for John E. Thayer in Alaska and Siberia, 1913; collected with Thomas Barbour in the West Indies and Central America. Primarily an ornithologist but collected widely. Curator for birds at the Boston Society of Natural History.

Names for this agent

  • Winthrop Sprague Brooks
  • Winthrop Sprague Brooks (preferred)
  • W. Sprague Brooks (aka)
  • Brooks, W. S. (author)
  • W. S. Brooks (second author)

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Range of years collected is greater than 80 (1877-1971)

Collecting Event Map

  • Actinopterygii: Ophichthidae (3 records) in year 1929
  • Amphibia: Bufonidae (191 records) in years 1917-1925
  • Amphibia: Caeciliaidae (11 records) in year 1922
  • Amphibia: Centrolenidae (2 records) in years 1922-1924
  • Amphibia: Dendrobatidae (22 records) in years 1922-1926
  • Amphibia: Hylidae (230 records) in years 1915-1927
  • Amphibia: Hyperolidae (2 records) in year 1925
  • Amphibia: Leptodactylidae (60 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Amphibia: Microhylidae (3 records) in years 1919-1925
  • Amphibia: Myobatrachidae (126 records) in years 1926-1929
  • Amphibia: Pipidae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Amphibia: Plethodontidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Amphibia: Ranidae (101 records) in years 1919-1925
  • Amphibia: Rhacophoridae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Amphibia: Salamandridae (2 records) in year 1923
  • Amphibia: [no family] (12 records) in year 1925
  • Arachnida: Araneidae (7 records) in years 1915-1927
  • Arachnida: Barychelidae (4 records) in years 1918-1927
  • Arachnida: Bothriuridae (9 records) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: Buthidae (16 records) in years 1915-1925
  • Arachnida: Caponiidae (2 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Arachnida: Chactidae (1 record) in year 1926
  • Arachnida: Corinnidae (1 record) in year 1918
  • Arachnida: Cosmetidae (5 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Arachnida: Ctenidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Arachnida: Diplocentridae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Arachnida: Dysderidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Arachnida: Idiopidae (2 records) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: Ischnuridae (2 records) in year 1925
  • Arachnida: Ixodidae (2 records) in year 1929
  • Arachnida: Lamponidae (1 record) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: Linyphiidae (2 records) in year 1919
  • Arachnida: Lycosidae (2 records) in year 1919
  • Arachnida: Miturgidae (1 record) in year 1918
  • Arachnida: Nemesiidae (1 record) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: Nicodamidae (1 record) in year 1926
  • Arachnida: Phrynidae (3 records) in years 1917-1929
  • Arachnida: Salticidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Arachnida: Sclerosomatidae (1 record) in year 1926
  • Arachnida: Scorpionidae (5 records) in year 1925
  • Arachnida: Selenopidae (1 record) in year 1917
  • Arachnida: Solpugidae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Arachnida: Sparassidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Arachnida: Theraphosidae (3 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Arachnida: Theridiosomatidae (1 record) in year 1926
  • Arachnida: Triaenonychidae (4 records) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: Urodacidae (1 record) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: Zodariidae (10 records) in year 1927
  • Arachnida: [no family] (4 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Aves: Accipitridae (25 records) in years 1914-1929
  • Aves: Alaudidae (4 records) in year 1914
  • Aves: Alcedinidae (7 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Alcidae (33 records) in years 1911-1914
  • Aves: Anatidae (112 records) in years 1902-1922
  • Aves: Apodidae (13 records) in years 1915-1917
  • Aves: Aramidae (2 records) in year 1915
  • Aves: Ardeidae (27 records) in years 1877-1934
  • Aves: Bombycillidae (4 records) in year 1912
  • Aves: Bucconidae (16 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Capitonidae (3 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Caprimulgidae (3 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Aves: Cathartidae (2 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Charadriidae (56 records) in years 1912-1916
  • Aves: Columbidae (51 records) in years 1914-1929
  • Aves: Corvidae (24 records) in years 1913-1922
  • Aves: Cotingidae (16 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Cracidae (2 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Cuculidae (19 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Dendrocolaptidae (23 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Diomedeidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Aves: Emberizidae (262 records) in years 1904-1929
  • Aves: Falconidae (12 records) in years 1908-1922
  • Aves: Formicariidae (164 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Fringillidae (21 records) in years 1912-1914
  • Aves: Furnariidae (24 records) in years 1916-1922
  • Aves: Galbulidae (2 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Gaviidae (11 records) in years 1912-1914
  • Aves: Gruidae (12 records) in years 1909-1920
  • Aves: Haematopodidae (16 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Aves: Hirundinidae (40 records) in years 1912-1929
  • Aves: Hydrobatidae (2 records) in year 1913
  • Aves: Icteridae (102 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Laridae (149 records) in years 1912-1929
  • Aves: Mimidae (4 records) in year 1915
  • Aves: Momotidae (8 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Motacillidae (39 records) in years 1913-1916
  • Aves: Muscicapidae (41 records) in years 1913-1922
  • Aves: Nyctibiidae (1 record) in year 1924
  • Aves: Oxyruncidae (3 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Paridae (19 records) in years 1904-1919
  • Aves: Parulidae (57 records) in years 1911-1929
  • Aves: Phalacrocoracidae (12 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Aves: Phalaropodidae (39 records) in years 1913-1914
  • Aves: Phasianidae (17 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Picidae (73 records) in years 1904-1922
  • Aves: Pipridae (63 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Ploceidae (2 records) in year 1913
  • Aves: Podicipedidae (7 records) in year 1915
  • Aves: Procellariidae (7 records) in years 1913-1926
  • Aves: Psittacidae (30 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Rallidae (38 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Ramphastidae (6 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Scolopacidae (159 records) in years 1913-1919
  • Aves: Sittidae (2 records) in years 1908-1923
  • Aves: Spheniscidae (47 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Aves: Stercorariidae (11 records) in years 1913-1915
  • Aves: Strigidae (28 records) in years 1913-1929
  • Aves: Sulidae (5 records) in years 1917-1929
  • Aves: Sylviidae (2 records) in year 1913
  • Aves: Tetraonidae (30 records) in years 1913-1916
  • Aves: Threskiornithidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Aves: Tinamidae (3 records) in year 1922
  • Aves: Todidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Aves: Trochilidae (71 records) in years 1914-1922
  • Aves: Troglodytidae (37 records) in years 1912-1928
  • Aves: Trogonidae (11 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Aves: Tyrannidae (153 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Aves: Tytonidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Aves: Vireonidae (27 records) in years 1915-1925
  • Aves: [no family] (32 records) in years 1913-1929
  • Bivalvia: Arcidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Astartidae (1 record) in year 1932
  • Bivalvia: Cardiidae (2 records) in years 1957-1958
  • Bivalvia: Cyrenoididae (1 record) in year 1920
  • Bivalvia: Gaimardiidae (2 records) in year 1915
  • Bivalvia: Hiatellidae (1 record) in year 1912
  • Bivalvia: Mactridae (2 records) in year 1934
  • Bivalvia: Mesodesmatidae (2 records) in years 1931-1932
  • Bivalvia: Pharidae (1 record) in year 1934
  • Bivalvia: Pholadidae (3 records) in year 1913
  • Bivalvia: Pisidiidae (5 records) in year 1919
  • Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Bivalvia: Tellinidae (2 records) in year 1929
  • Bivalvia: Unionidae (46 records) in years 1912-1937
  • Bivalvia: Veneridae (3 records) in year 1934
  • Branchiopoda: Branchinectidae (1 record) in year 1914
  • Cephalopoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 1929
  • Cestoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 1913
  • Chilopoda: Cryptopidae (2 records) in year 1918
  • Chilopoda: Geophilidae (9 records) in years 1900-1927
  • Chilopoda: Henicopidae (6 records) in year 1927
  • Chilopoda: Lithobiidae (1 record) in year 1914
  • Chilopoda: Mecistocephalidae (5 records) in years 1900-1927
  • Chilopoda: Scolopendridae (44 records) in years 1915-1927
  • Chilopoda: Scolopocryptopidae (6 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Chilopoda: Scutigeridae (2 records) in year 1927
  • Chilopoda: [no family] (4 records) in years 1925-1927
  • Cirripedia: [no family] (3 records) in year 1929
  • Copepoda: Pennellidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Diplopoda: Aphelidesmidae (1 record) in year 1924
  • Diplopoda: Chelodesmidae (3 records) in years 1918-1922
  • Diplopoda: Dalodesmidae (4 records) in year 1925
  • Diplopoda: Iulomorphidae (10 records) in year 1927
  • Diplopoda: Paradoxosomatidae (11 records) in year 1927
  • Diplopoda: Parajulidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Diplopoda: Platyrhacidae (1 record) in year 1924
  • Diplopoda: Polydesmidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Diplopoda: Sphaeriodesmidae (2 records) in year 1918
  • Diplopoda: Stemmiulidae (1 record) in year 1918
  • Diplopoda: Xystodesmidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Diplopoda: [no family] (3 records) in year 1925
  • Gastropoda: Achatinidae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Gastropoda: Acmaeidae (1 record) in year 1912
  • Gastropoda: Agriolimacidae (1 record) in year 1914
  • Gastropoda: Ampullariidae (7 records) in years 1915-1926
  • Gastropoda: Annulariidae (62 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Gastropoda: Batillariidae (1 record) in year 1928
  • Gastropoda: Buccinidae (3 records) in years 1912-1919
  • Gastropoda: Bulimulidae (19 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Camaenidae (19 records) in years 1915-1924
  • Gastropoda: Cepolidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Cerionidae (15 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Gastropoda: Charopidae (4 records) in year 1927
  • Gastropoda: Cionellidae (2 records) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Cochlicopidae (2 records) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Columbellidae (2 records) in year 1918
  • Gastropoda: Ellobiidae (3 records) in year 1918
  • Gastropoda: Euconulidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae (4 records) in years 1915-1919
  • Gastropoda: Fissurellidae (1 record) in year 1912
  • Gastropoda: Gastrodontidae (2 records) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Helicarionidae (1 record) in year 1927
  • Gastropoda: Helicidae (5 records) in years 1919-1930
  • Gastropoda: Helicinidae (77 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Gastropoda: Helicodiscidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Helminthoglyptidae (22 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae (2 records) in year 1918
  • Gastropoda: Limacidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Littorinidae (10 records) in years 1912-1929
  • Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae (14 records) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Margaritidae (1 record) in year 1912
  • Gastropoda: Megalomastomidae (11 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Gastropoda: Microceramidae (2 records) in years 1919-1920
  • Gastropoda: Muricidae (6 records) in years 1912-1929
  • Gastropoda: Nassariidae (1 record) in year 1928
  • Gastropoda: Naticidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Gastropoda: Neritidae (7 records) in years 1928-1929
  • Gastropoda: Oleacinidae (11 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Gastropoda: Orthalicidae (187 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Gastropoda: Physidae (16 records) in years 1914-1919
  • Gastropoda: Planorbidae (9 records) in years 1919-1930
  • Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Gastropoda: Pleurodiscidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Polygyridae (22 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae (6 records) in year 1929
  • Gastropoda: Proserpinidae (4 records) in year 1915
  • Gastropoda: Pupillidae (4 records) in years 1915-1919
  • Gastropoda: Sagdidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Spiraxidae (6 records) in years 1918-1922
  • Gastropoda: Streptaxidae (1 record) in year 1918
  • Gastropoda: Subulinidae (13 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Gastropoda: Succineidae (16 records) in years 1914-1929
  • Gastropoda: Thiaridae (4 records) in year 1915
  • Gastropoda: Thysanophoridae (3 records) in years 1915-1919
  • Gastropoda: Trochidae (1 record) in year 1915
  • Gastropoda: Truncatellidae (3 records) in year 1918
  • Gastropoda: Urocoptidae (62 records) in years 1915-1918
  • Gastropoda: Urocyclidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Valvatidae (4 records) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Veronicellidae (2 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Gastropoda: Vitrinidae (3 records) in year 1919
  • Gastropoda: Viviparidae (4 records) in years 1912-1930
  • Gastropoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 1928
  • Gordioidea: [no family] (1 record) in year 1919
  • Hirudinea: Hirudinidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Hirudinea: [no family] (2 records) in year 1927
  • Ichthyostraca: Argulidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Insecta: Anthomyzidae (2 records) in year 1928
  • Insecta: Apidae (1 record) in year 1914
  • Insecta: Chironomidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Insecta: Curculionidae (1 record) in year 1918
  • Insecta: Formicidae (11 records) in years 1908-1971
  • Insecta: Lauxaniidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Insecta: Melittidae (1 record) in year 1924
  • Insecta: Nymphalidae (19 records) in years 1914-1919
  • Insecta: Papilionidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Insecta: Pieridae (6 records) in year 1914
  • Insecta: Pipunculidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Insecta: Platypezidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Insecta: Scarabaeidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Cambaridae (6 records) in years 1918-1927
  • Malacostraca: Gonodactylidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Malacostraca: Majidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Malacostraca: Ocypodidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Palaemonidae (2 records) in year 1918
  • Malacostraca: Parastacidae (6 records) in years 1926-1927
  • Malacostraca: Potamonidae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Malacostraca: Pseudothelphusidae (4 records) in years 1922-1924
  • Malacostraca: Upogebiidae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Malacostraca: [no family] (24 records) in years 1913-1929
  • Mammalia: Bovidae (3 records) in year 1913
  • Mammalia: Bradypodidae (3 records) in years 1922-1924
  • Mammalia: Callitrichidae (9 records) in year 1922
  • Mammalia: Canidae (32 records) in years 1913-1922
  • Mammalia: Capromyidae (192 records) in years 1913-1917
  • Mammalia: Cebidae (5 records) in year 1922
  • Mammalia: Cervidae (7 records) in years 1913-1922
  • Mammalia: Cricetidae (174 records) in years 1909-1924
  • Mammalia: Dasyproctidae (4 records) in year 1922
  • Mammalia: Didelphidae (5 records) in years 1922-1924
  • Mammalia: Echimyidae (45 records) in years 1917-1922
  • Mammalia: Emballonuridae (16 records) in years 1916-1924
  • Mammalia: Erethizontidae (2 records) in year 1924
  • Mammalia: Felidae (2 records) in years 1920-1922
  • Mammalia: Heteromyidae (1 record) in year 1922
  • Mammalia: Hipposideridae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Mammalia: Leporidae (7 records) in years 1920-1924
  • Mammalia: Molossidae (2 records) in year 1917
  • Mammalia: Mormoopidae (3 records) in year 1924
  • Mammalia: Muridae (3 records) in year 1919
  • Mammalia: Mustelidae (5 records) in year 1913
  • Mammalia: Myrmecophagidae (3 records) in year 1924
  • Mammalia: Nesophontidae (14 records) in year 1917
  • Mammalia: Noctilionidae (1 record) in year 1924
  • Mammalia: Odobenidae (2 records) in year 1913
  • Mammalia: Phocidae (2 records) in years 1913-1919
  • Mammalia: Phyllostomatidae (158 records) in years 1917-1932
  • Mammalia: Procyonidae (6 records) in years 1920-1924
  • Mammalia: Sciuridae (50 records) in years 1911-1931
  • Mammalia: Soricidae (7 records) in years 1909-1912
  • Mammalia: Talpidae (1 record) in year 1911
  • Mammalia: Tayassuidae (1 record) in year 1922
  • Mammalia: Thyropteridae (2 records) in year 1922
  • Mammalia: Ursidae (1 record) in year 1913
  • Mammalia: Vespertilionidae (2 records) in years 1917-1919
  • Mammalia: Zapodidae (1 record) in year 1912
  • Maxillopoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 1929
  • Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae (1 record) in year 1927
  • Oligochaeta: [no family] (1 record) in year 1927
  • Osteichthyes: Anguillidae (1 record) in year 1920
  • Osteichthyes: Centrarchidae (4 records) in years 1919-1920
  • Osteichthyes: Characidae (10 records) in year 1922
  • Osteichthyes: Clupeidae (1 record) in year 1920
  • Osteichthyes: Coryphaenidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Osteichthyes: Ctenoluciidae (1 record) in year 1922
  • Osteichthyes: Curimatidae (2 records) in year 1922
  • Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae (1 record) in year 1925
  • Osteichthyes: Cyprinodontidae (6 records) in years 1919-1920
  • Osteichthyes: Eleotrididae (1 record) in year 1919
  • Osteichthyes: Fistulariidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Osteichthyes: Fundulidae (5 records) in years 1919-1920
  • Osteichthyes: Galaxiidae (3 records) in years 1915-1916
  • Osteichthyes: Gasteropelecidae (1 record) in year 1922
  • Osteichthyes: Gasterosteidae (3 records) in year 1910
  • Osteichthyes: Ictaluridae (4 records) in years 1919-1920
  • Osteichthyes: Lebiasinidae (1 record) in year 1922
  • Osteichthyes: Loricariidae (2 records) in year 1922
  • Osteichthyes: Poeciliidae (30 records) in years 1915-1920
  • Osteichthyes: Rivulidae (2 records) in year 1915
  • Osteichthyes: Synbranchidae (1 record) in year 1922
  • Osteichthys: Cichlidae (5 records) in years 1915-1925
  • Osteichthys: Exocoetidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Ostracoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 1914
  • Polyplacophora: Chitonidae (2 records) in year 1929
  • Polyplacophora: Mopalidae (1 record) in year 1927
  • Reptilia: Agamidae (35 records) in years 1925-1926
  • Reptilia: Amphisbaenidae (32 records) in years 1917-1924
  • Reptilia: Anguidae (7 records) in years 1920-1928
  • Reptilia: Anniellidae (1 record) in year 1923
  • Reptilia: Boidae (6 records) in years 1922-1927
  • Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae (2 records) in year 1925
  • Reptilia: Chelydridae (1 record) in year 1903
  • Reptilia: Colubridae (105 records) in years 1899-1929
  • Reptilia: Cordylidae (29 records) in year 1925
  • Reptilia: Elapidae (34 records) in years 1921-1927
  • Reptilia: Emydidae (12 records) in years 1903-1924
  • Reptilia: Gekkonidae (70 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Reptilia: Gerrhosauridae (2 records) in year 1925
  • Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae (2 records) in year 1926
  • Reptilia: Iguanidae (170 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Reptilia: Kinosternidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Reptilia: Lacertidae (28 records) in year 1925
  • Reptilia: Leptotyphlopidae (20 records) in years 1925-1926
  • Reptilia: Pelomedusidae (2 records) in year 1925
  • Reptilia: Pygopodidae (14 records) in years 1926-1927
  • Reptilia: Scincidae (254 records) in years 1920-1929
  • Reptilia: Teiidae (26 records) in years 1915-1922
  • Reptilia: Testudinidae (5 records) in year 1925
  • Reptilia: Tropidophidae (15 records) in years 1915-1924
  • Reptilia: Typhlopidae (58 records) in years 1915-1929
  • Reptilia: Varanidae (1 record) in year 1926
  • Reptilia: Viperidae (10 records) in years 1919-1925
  • Reptilia: [no family] (72 records) in years 1922-1925
  • Secernentea: Diplotriaenidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • Turbellaria: [no family] (1 record) in year 1927
  • : Anisakidae (1 record) in year 1929
  • : Echeneididae (4 records) in year 1929
  • : [no family] (5 records) in years 1913-1955

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