Sir Norman Frederick Frome CIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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 (1899-1982) was an English ornithologist.

Frome was born in Aldershot

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, and was educated at Fairfield Grammar School

Fairfield Grammar School

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 and at the University of Bristol

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Frome worked in India

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 with the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department. During this time he made studies on the bird

Bird

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s of various parts of India. These studies are the oldest and most comprehensive studies of the birds of the Delhi

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 region. He wrote extensively in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society

Bombay Natural History Society

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Publications

• Frome,N F (1946): Birds noted in the Mahasu-Narkanda-Baghi area of the Simla Hills. JBNHS. 46(2):308-316.
• Frome,N F (1947): The birds of Delhi and District. JBNHS. 47(2):277-300.
• Frome,N F (1948): The birds of Delhi and District. JBNHS. 47(4):751-753.
• Frome,N F (1945): A note on birds of the Simla foothills. JBNHS. 45(3):422-425.