biography
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Gray, George Robert
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–72)
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| biography:
| Ornithologist and entomologist, born in London, UK. Educated at Merchant Taylor's School, he became zoological assistant at the British Museum in 1831, where his first task was cataloguing insects. This led to his publication of Entomology of Australia (1833). He is best known for his Genera of Birds (3 vols, 1844–49). Gray's grasshopper warbler is named after him. |
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