Elizabeth L Kerr was an American ornithologist, who collected hundreds of birds for the American Museum of Natural History bird surveys in Colombia, in the first decades of 20th-century.
Frank Chapman, the organiser of the early 20th-century surveys and the museums curator of birds, used the Mrs. Kerr Collection to help with the distribution of Columbian birds.
He relegated Kerr's contribution to a footnote in his The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia.
A Contribution to a Biological Survey of South America.
[1] In 1915 he named the Choco tinamou, Crypturellus kerriae (Chapman, 1915) after her.