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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker updated 2025-04-01 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000896b.htm person Whitlock Frederick Bulstrode Lawson AACR2 3 June 1860 15 June 1953 Place of Birth Nottingham, England Place of Death Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia Ornithologist Frederick Whitlock arrived in Western Australia from England in 1901. His fieldwork undertaken during extensive travels throughout Western and Central Australia formed the basis of articles published in The Emu.

Born Nottingham, England, 3 June 1860. Died Bunbury, Western Australia, 15 June 1953. Arrived Western Australia 1901, where he eventually completed the most extensive range of collecting ever undertaken by any one ornithologist in that State. Collected for H.L. White (q.v.) 1908-27, chiefly in Western Australia, but also made a visit to the Hermannsburg Range in central Australia in search of the Night Parrot. His bird-skins are in the Western Australian Museum, Perth, the National Museum, Melbourne ("H.L. White" Collection, along with most of the eggs he collected) and the American Museum of Natural History, New York ("Mathews Collection"). As well as being the first to obtain the nests and eggs of many Australian species, he obtained in 1909 the last "new" bird to be discovered in Western Australia, the Grey Honeyeater, Lacustroica whitei. Honorary Life Member, RAOU and Western Australian Naturalists' Club. A genus and a number of species of birds were named after him between 1909 and 1915, mainly by G.M. Mathews (q.v.)

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 'Whitlock, Frederick Bulstrode Lawson', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Whitlock, Frederick Bulstrode Lawson Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Journey to Central Australia in search of the Night Parrot Whitlock, F. L. Journey to Central Australia in search of the Night Parrot 1924 Emu 23 4 248-81 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 Frederick Bulstrode Lawson Whitlock - Records JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia Frederick Bulstrode Lawson Whitlock - Records MN 598 1909 - 1950 Diaries and notebooks including records of ornithological expeditions to Lake Way 1909, Shark Bay 1920, Nullabor Plain 1921, Fortescue River 1922, Central Australia 1923, Fitzroy River 1924-25, and Bunbury 1948-50; notes on Petrels and Terns etc.; a copy of R. Hall, "Key to the Birds of Australia and Tasmania" (1899) with copious notes by Whitlock [11 volumes, LBWA/496A, MN 598]. 11 volumes