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) illustrated by J. G. Keulemans.
References
- 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.
- Shelley, G. E. (1872). A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt. London: J. Van Voorst.
- "Obituary. Captain George Ernest Kelley". Ibis: 369–376. April 1911. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1911.tb03312.x. (with bibliography of publications by G. E. Shelley)
External links
- Works by or about George Ernest Shelley at the Internet Archive
- Illustrations appearing in Handbook to the Birds of Egypt Archived 18 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine
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