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George Ord

American naturalist, ornithologist and writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1781 to 1866 · aged 84

George Ord, Jr. was an American zoologist who specialized in North American ornithology and mammalogy.

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Based in part on specimens collected by Lewis and Clark in the North American interior, Ord's article "Zoology of North America" (1815), which was published in the second American edition of William Guthrie's Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar, has been recognized as the "first systematic zoology of America by an American".

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Lived 1781 to 1866 · aged 84