Raymond Andrew Paynter, Jr.

Raymond Andrew Paynter Jr. (29 November 1925 – 10 July 2003) was an American ornithologist and curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University (1961–1999).

Biography Paynter was born in New York City where he was educated at Cheshire Academy and Bowdoin College (1946). He studied herring gull behavior on Kent Island while in college. He then began to collect birds from Mexico and joined Yale University for his PhD with a thesis on the Ornithogeography of the Yucatan Peninsula. He assisted Ernst Mayr to produce the Check-list of Birds of the World.

He died on 10 July 2003 after a stroke.