Konstantin Ciryl Halafoff or K. C. Halafoff (1902–1969) was a White Emigre

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 Russia

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n and Australia

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n poet

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 and ornithologist

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 interested in the musicology

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 of bird song.

Halafoff was born in 1902 in Moscow

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. After the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia he served with the White Army. In 1920 he moved to Yugoslavia

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 where he resumed his interrupted studies and graduated from Belgrade University. After the Second World War he fled to Germany

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 where he lived until moving to Australia in 1949. He published his poetry in various Russian emigre publications in Europe and Australia; one of his contributions being an essay on musical aspects of Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

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's language, published in a Russian literary review in Munich

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.

Halafoff studied the complex vocalisations of Superb Lyrebird

Superb Lyrebird

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s in Australia, especially in Sherbrooke Forest

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. Articles and notes he wrote about lyrebirds and other birds that were published in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970 include:

• 1958 – Lyrebirds of Sherbrooke. Victorian Naturalist 74(11): 157-63.
• 1958 – Sherbrooke Diary. Victorian Naturalist 75(7): 105-112.
• 1959 – A Lyrebird dancing in a pool. Emu 59: 220.
• 1959 – Musical analysis of the lyrebird's song. Victorian Naturalist 75: 169-78.
• 1959 – The range of the lyrebird's song. Victorian Naturalist 76: 121.
• 1961 – Writing down a lyrebird's song. Victorian Naturalist 77: 335-338, 359-363.
• 1961 – Notes on the lyrebird's song. Victorian Naturalist 78: 79-81.
• 1962 – A strange duet. Emu 62: 62.
• 1964 – Audiospectrographic analysis of the lyrebird's song. Victorian Naturalist 80: 304-12.
• 1968 – A survey of birds’ music. Emu 68: 21-40.
• 1970 – Notes of Lyrebird dialects. Victorian Naturalist 78: 1.

Halafoff died in 1969 in Ferntree Gully a suburb of Melbourne, aged 67.