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Robert Cushman Murphy
American ornithologist and museum curator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people named Robert Murphy, see Robert Murphy (disambiguation).
Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numerous oceanic expeditions and was an expert on marine birds, and wrote several major books on them. He described a species of petrel which is now known as Murphy's petrel. Mount Murphy in Antarctica and Murphy Wall in South Georgia are named after him.
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