Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. (February 14, 1879 – July 27, 1965) was an American ornithologist and entomologist.
He attended the University of Nebraska, where he studied Mallophaga (bird lice) under Lawrence Bruner.
[1] Carriker began collecting the skins of birds and studying avian habits when he graduated from high school.
He communicated with global Mallophaga systematists and published numerous papers in both Spanish and English.
He also described two families, four subfamilies, 53 genera and subgenera, and approximately 866 species and subspecies of bird lice throughout his career.