George Ernest Shelley

For other people with the same name, see George 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 (1876–1880),^[2] A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt (1872)^[3] and The Birds of Africa (5 volumes, 1896–1912) illustrated by J. G. Keulemans.^[4][5]