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'''Charles McFarlane Inglis''' [[Royal Entomological Society|FES]], [[Zoological Society of London|FZS]] (8 November 1870 – 13 February 1954) was a [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[curator]] of the [[Darjeeling]] museum in [[India]] from 1923 to 1948.<ref name=":0" /> The museum was run by the Bengal Natural History Society and many of his writings were published in that society's journal which he started and edited.<br />
[[File:Entomology_meeting_1919.jpg|thumb|left|Inglis in 1919 (sitting fourth from left)]]<br />
Inglis was born in Elgin, Scotland, the son of Archibald Inglis, a retired indigo planter in India who went to India at the age of 18.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024077806#page/n287/|pages=263–266|title=History of Behar|author=Wilson, Minden|year=1908| place=Calcutta|publisher=Calcutta General Printing Company}}</ref> Little is known of Inglis' early life but he gave up an office job in Inverness and moved to India where he worked initially at Roopachera Tea Estate in Hailekandi. He became interested in birds after a collector working for [[Allan Octavian Hume]] showed him a specimen of an oriole. He subsequently contacted [[E. C. Stuart Baker|E C Stuart Baker]]. In 1898 he became an indigo planter in Baghownie. During this time made studies of birds and collected many specimens of butterflies and dragonflies.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|title=Obituary|year= 1954 |journal=Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society |volume=24|pages=1–8|issn=0409-0756}}</ref><ref>Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.</ref> In 1923 he took over as curator of the Darjeeling Natural History Museum. He then retired to Coonoor where he died in 1954.<ref>{{cite journal| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society|volume=80| year=1983| pages=320–330 |title=Bombay Natural History Society - the Founders, the Builders and the Guardians. Part 4.| author=Ali, Salim| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48743924}}</ref><ref name=obit>{{cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48184453 |title=Charles M. Inglis|volume=52| pages=565–568| journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society|year=1955}}</ref><br />
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His ability to sketch and illustrate birds led to [[Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher]] inviting him to produce a series of articles on birds of importance to agriculture in India. These were published in the Agricultural Journal of India and were later revised and published as a book ''Birds of an Indian Garden'' in 1924.<ref name=obit /><br />
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Inglis shot eight specimens of the [[pink-headed duck]] in [[Bihar]] from 1903, including the last known specimen collected in June 1935 from Baghownie.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Inglis |first=C.M. |date= 1940|title= Records of some rare, or uncommon, geese and ducks and other water birds and waders in North Bihar. |journal= Journal of the Bengal Natural History Society|volume=15|issue=2| pages=56–60 |issn= 0409-0756|oclc=10654633}}</ref><br />
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File:J D N H S.jpg|Cover of the Journal of the Darjeeling Natural History Society<br />
File:Green Magpie Inglis.jpg|''[[Cissa chinensis]]'' <br />
File:Indian_Roller_Inglis.jpg|[[Indian roller]] <br />
File:Coppersmith_Inglis.jpg|Coppersmith barbet<br />
File:Upupa_Inglis.jpg|Hoopoe<br />
File:White-eye_Inglis.jpg|Oriental white-eye<br />
File:Terpsiphone_Inglis.jpg|Indian paradise flycatcher<br />
File:Oriole_Inglis.jpg|Indian golden oriole<br />
File:Magpie_Robin_Inglis.jpg|Oriental magpie robin<br />
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==Publications==<br />
*Baker, H. R. & C. M. Inglis. ''[https://archive.org/details/the-birds-of-southern-india The Birds of Southern India including Madras, Malabar, Travancore, Cochin, Coorg and Mysore.]'' Government Press, Madras (1930)<br />
*[[Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher|Fletcher, T. B.]] and C. M. Inglis ''[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7158 Birds of an Indian Garden].'' Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co. (1924)<br />
*Inglis C. M. The leaf insect – ''Phyllium scythe'' Gr. J. Darjeeling Nat Hist. Soc. 5 : 32–33 (1930)<br />
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