William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (Easter Elchies, 25 de Março de 1863 — Farley Cottage, 26 de Julho de 1924) foi um ornitólogo escocês.
Biografia Ogilvie-Grant recebeu estudos nos colégios de Cargilfield e Fettes, em Edimburgo, onde estudou Zoologia e Anatomia. Em 1882, tornou-se Assistente no Museu de História Natural de Londres. Estudou Ictiologia sobre supervisão de Albert C. L. G. Günther, e em 1885 foi colocado temporariamente no comando da Secção Ornitológica, durante a visita de Richard Bowdler Sharpe à Índia. Permanecer nesse departamento e algum tempo depois tornou-se Curador de Aves, de 1909 até 1918.Mullens and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology
Sucedeu também a Bowdler Sharpe como editor da publicação Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, posto que ocupou de 1904 até 1914.
Ogilvie-Grant efetuou muitas viagens de recolecção, especialmente a Socotorá, e às ilhas da Madeira e Canárias.
Publicações
On a new Species of Guinea fowl. The Ibis (biodiversitylibrary.org). Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited specimens of two apparently undescribed birds from the Owen Stanley Museum in S. E. New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club., 1895, (biodiversitylibrary.org). The Expedition to Sokotra. IV Descriptions of three new species of butterflies – Liverpool: Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 1899 Arthropoda. Insecta: Lepidoptera - I. Rhopalocera. In: HO Forbes: Natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri : Being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898-9, by Mr. W.R. Ogilvie-Grant, of the British Museum, and Dr. H.O. Forbes, of the Liverpool Museums, together with information from other available sources. Forming a monogragh of the islands – Liverpool: Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 1903 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant said that with the assistance of Mr. Claude Grant he had now been able to make a more thorough examination of the fine collection of birds formed by the Members of the B.O.U. Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club., 1911 (biodiversitylibrary.org). Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of Grosbeak, Rhynchostruthus percivali yemenensis, from the mountains of S. Yemen – Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club., 1913 Report of a new race of Palm Dove – Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 1914 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant sent descriptions of three new subspecies of Parrots. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club., 1915, (biodiversitylibrary.org). Report on Birds collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch Guinea., 1915, (biodiversitylibrary.org).
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Gymnophaps stalkeri
Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert