Name George Shelley | Role Geologist | |
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Died November 29, 1910, London, United Kingdom Books A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt, The Birds of Africa: Comprising All the Species which Occur in the Ethiopian Region | ||
Captain George Ernest Shelley (15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910) was an English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley was educated at the Lycée de Versailles and served a few years in the Grenadier Guards.
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).
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