Herbert Brown (ornithologist)

Herbert Brown (March 6, 1848 – May 12, 1913) was an American ornithologist and journalist who lived and worked in Arizona.

He worked in various industries, including timber, mining and trade, before becoming a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star in the 1870s.

After meeting Edward William Nelson in 1883, he took an interest in natural history and began to collect specimens of the local fauna and flora.

Among his collections were specimens of birds, including those used by William Brewster to describe a new subspecies of the bobwhite quail Colinus virginianus ridgwayi.

Herbert Brown is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of North American snake, Phyllorhynchus browni.