William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (25 March 1863 – 26 July 1924) was a Scottish ornithologist. Grant was born on 25 March 1863 as the second son of Capt. the...
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(Charles Randolph) Mark Ogilvie-Grant was born on 15 March 1905, the first son of ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant and Maud Louisa Pechell,...
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Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield (1815–1881), Scottish nobleman Trevor Ogilvie-Grant, 4th Baron Strathspey (1879–1948), Scottish peer William Robert Ogilvie-Grant...
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medical essayist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), Scottish ornithologist William Watson Ogilvie (1835–1900), Canadian pioneer William Ogilvy, 8th...
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Philippine eagle (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
specimen a few weeks later. The skin of the bird was sent to William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in London in 1896, who initially showed it off in a local restaurant...
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James Miller, architect William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman. William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, wildlife artist Arthur Forman...
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Hainan blue flycatcher (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in 1900. It is native to southern China, Hainan and Indochina...
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White-eared night heron (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
John Whitehead. It was described as Nycticorax magnifica by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in 1899. The species is monotypic. The length is 54–56 cm (21–22 in)...
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Jackson's spurfowl (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant from specimens collected by Frederick John Jackson in Kikuyu, Kenya. Ogilvie-Grant honoured Jackson and...
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descendant on his mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield. He was a talented Formula...
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Flamecrest (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
Taiwan Firecrest was formally described by Scottish ornithologist William Ogilvie-Grant in 1906 from the writings of English explorer and ornithologist...
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White-billed crow (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Corvus Species: C. woodfordi Binomial name Corvus woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1887)...
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descendant on her mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield. They were married for...
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For A Throne William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), Scottish ornithologist William Watson Ogilvie (1835–1900), Canadian pioneer Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog...
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Malayan whistling thrush (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
by H. C. Robinson and described as Myiophoneus robinsoni by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in 1905. The specific name is derived from Robinson's surname...
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Yunnan nuthatch (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
species in the nuthatch family Sittidae. It was first described by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in 1900 based on a male holotype. It is a small nuthatch, measuring...
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England/Burma Harry C. Oberholser – US Bill Oddie – England William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina Storrs L...
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australis (as Corone australis) the "raven". Scottish naturalist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant corrected this in 1912 after re-examining the type specimen,...
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White-winged magpie (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Urocissa Species: U. whiteheadi Binomial name Urocissa whiteheadi Ogilvie-Grant, 1899 Synonyms Cissopica whiteheadi...
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Yemen warbler (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
warbler was first described in 1913, by the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, as Parisoma buryi in the babbler family Timaliidae. However...
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Seram mountain pigeon (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
was described as Columba stalkeri by the Scottish ornithologist William Ogilvie-Grant in 1911 on the basis of specimens from the Kanobi Mountains on Seram...
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Grey-striped spurfowl (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant from a single specimen and given the binomial name Francolinus griseostriatus. Although Ogilvie-Grant specified...
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Collared bush robin (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
species. This species was described as Ianthia johnstoniae by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in 1906: the specimens were collected by Walter Goodfellow on...
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Violet wood hoopoe (redirect from Grant's Wood Hoopoe)
was formally described in 1901 by the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant under the binomial name Irrisor damarensis. The specific epithet...
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on fossil ostriches in China. In November 1919 he succeeded William Robert Ogilvie-Grant as Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum, retiring on...
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business man William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist Lewis Robertson (1883–1914), Scotland rugby footballer and soldier William Roy Sanderson...
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Mikado pheasant (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Beebe, William (1990). A monograph of the pheasants. Volume 3 (Reprint ed.). Courier Dover...
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life there. He wrote of a distinctive booby there, which he and William Robert Ogilvie-Grant diagnosed as the Peruvian booby (Sula variegata), then only known...
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Socotra cormorant (category Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant)
en. Retrieved 12 November 2021. "Persian Gulf Desert and Semi-desert." Robert Warren Howarth (ed.), Biomes & Ecosystemsvol. 3. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press...
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Francis William Grant (5 October 1814–11 March 1840) (also known as Francis Ogilvy-Grant, and Francis Ogilvie-Grant) was a Scottish politician who served...
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