George Ernest Shelley

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.^[1]

His books included A Monograph of the Cinnyridae, or Family of Sun Birds (1878), A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt (1872)^[2] and The Birds of Africa (5 volumes, 1896–1912) illustrated by J. G. Keulemans.^[3]

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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[1] 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.

[2] Shelley, G. E. (1872). A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt. London: J. Van Voorst.

[3] "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)

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