George Ernest Shelley
1840 - 1910
Shelley was educated at the Lycée de Versailles and served a few years in the Grenadier Guards.[1]
His books included A Monograph of the Cinnyridae, or Family of Sun Birds (1878), A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt (1872) and The Birds of Africa (5 volumes, 1896 - 1912).
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. Christopher Helm. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-7136-6647-2. OCLC 54616507. (Wikipedia)
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