Keith Alfred Hindwood [SEP] place of death
Keith Alfred Hindwood
Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904-1971) was a Sydney-based Australian businessman and amateur ornithologist. He joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1924, served as President 1944-1946, and was elected a Fellow of the RAOU in 1951. He was the most prolific contributor to the RAOU journal, the "Emu", with some 600 pages of contributions from his first major paper in 1926 to his death. He coauthored, with Arnold McGill, "The Birds of Sydney"
"P. albus". The ornithologist Keith Alfred Hindwood agreed that the bird was an albino "P. melanotus" in 1932, and pointed out that the naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster (his son) did not record the bird when Cook's ship visited Norfolk Island in 1774. In 1940, Hindwood found the Lord Howe swamphen so closely related to the Australasian swamphen that he considered them subspecies of the same species: "P. albus albus" and "P. albus melanotus" (since "albus" is the older