Alexander William Milligan

Alexander William Milligan (1858 – 30 March 1921) was an Australian accountant, legal clerk, zoological collector and ornithologist.

In 1897 he moved to Western Australia where he worked as a temporary accountant with the Department of Lands and Surveys.

He was also the Honorary Consulting Ornithologist to the Western Australian Museum.

In 1908 he moved back to Victoria where he died in St Kilda.

[1] The Black Grasswren Amytornis housei was first described by Milligan in 1902 from specimens collected by Dr F. M. House during the Brockman surveying expedition to west Kimberley, Western Australia, in 1901.