Frank Mervyn "F.M." Littler (1880–1922) was an Australian

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and

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, born in

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. Littler wrote about twenty-five journal articles and regular

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s on

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. His major work was published as ''Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and its Dependencies'' in 1910. Littler is also noted as an

and as a corresponding member of several American and English

entomological societies Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

, and published articles on that subject. His work on birds, however, is his best-known legacy to scientific literature. Littler is thought to have made and traded in large collection of specimens, but the whereabouts of these is uncertain. He was a founder of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.Dennis Abbott,
Littler, Frank Mervyn (1880–1922)
, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 18 August 2018.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Littler, Frank Australian ornithologists Australian entomologists People from Tasmania 1880 births 1922 deaths 20th-century Australian zoologists