Alfred John North

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

Alfred John North
Born	Alfred John North (1855-06-11)11 June 1855
Died	6 May 1917(1917-05-06) (aged 61)

North was born in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He was appointed to the Australian Museum, Sydney in 1886 and was given a permanent position there five years later. He wrote a List of the Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales (1897) and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania (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 Field Naturalists Club of Victoria of which he was a founding member.

References

• North, Alfred John (1855 - 1917) at Bright Sparcs, University of Melbourne