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Isabella Tily (née Blair; 1888–1954) was

Biography
Isabella Tily was born in 1888. From 1947 to 1954, Tily wrote monthly articles on birds that were published in the local Dunedin newspaper The Evening Star. She was a member of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. In 1950, she published a plea for the protection of a local albatross colony.

She died in 1954. After Tily's death her husband Harry Smith Tily donated her ornithological records to the University of Otago. The Isabella Tily papers, still held at the university, comprise fifteen volumes of bird observations in Dunedin and in surrounding districts, from 1936 to 1954. The papers include general bird observations, photographs, newspaper clippings and investigations concerning particular species, such as the silvereye and thrushes.