Alfred John North (11 June 1855 – 6 May 1917) was an Australian

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

. North was born in

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and was educated at

Melbourne Grammar School (Pray and Work) , established = 1849 (on present site since 1858 - the celebrated date of foundation) , type = Independent, co-educational primary, single-sex boys secondary, day and boarding , denominatio ...

. He was appointed to the

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in 1886 and was given a permanent position there five years later. He wrote a ''List of the Insectivorous Birds of

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'' (1897) and a ''Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and

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'' (1889) with George Barnard as co-author. He described a number of birds for the first time, many in the ''Victorian Naturalist'', the magazine of the

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of which he was a founding member.

References

North, Alfred John (1855 - 1917)
at Bright Sparcs,

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1855 births 1917 deaths People educated at Melbourne Grammar School Australian ornithologists Australian curators {{Australia-ornithologist-stub