Austin Roberts

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J Austin Roberts (1883 - 1948) was a South African zoologist. Roberts was born in Pretoria, and worked at the Transvaal Museum studying birds. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the area: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951.

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