Wilfred Backhouse Alexander

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According to Wikipedia, Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was a brother of Horace Alexander and Christopher James Alexander. Alexander was born at Croydon in Surrey, England in 1885, and was introduced to natural history by his two uncles, James and Albert Crosfield. He was educated at Bootham School in York and Tonbridge School in Kent, and went on to study Natural Science at Cambridge University. During this time his main interest was botany, graduating in 1909 with first class honours.

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Birds of the Ocean (1928) (41)
The Birds of the Swan River District, Western Australia (19)
The Vertebrate Fauna of Houtman's Abrolhos (Abrolhos Islands), Western Australia. (1922) (12)
A new species of marsupial of the subfamily Phalangerinae (9)
Notes on a Visit to North Queensland. (1926) (8)
History of zoology in Western Australia (8)
Australian species of Tubinares (Petrels and Albatrosses) (1920) (7)
White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. (6)
Observations and Records of Australian Sea-birds, 1920–1 (1922) (6)
On a stomatopod new to Australia, with a list of the Western Australian species of the order (4)
Notes on the Fauna of King Island from the Logbooks of the “Lady Nelson.” (1922) (4)
The Tubinares (Petrels and Albatrosses) in the Gould collection at Philadelphia (1921) (4)
Notes from Western Australia. (3)
A Study of Australian Specimens of the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor, Forster) (1918) (3)
The Food of the Red-Capped Parrot Purpureicephalus spurius (1930) (3)
The prickly pear in Australia (2)
White-winged Black Tern in Western Australian: a remarkable visitation. (2)
Further Experiments on the Cross-Breeding of Two Races of the Moth Acidalia virgularia (1912) (2)
A Week on the Upper Barcoo, Central Queensland (2)
History of zoology in Western Australia. Part 3. 1829-1840 (2)
Western Australian Echinoderms (2)
Additions to the Library (1891) (2)
Wilosn Storm-Petrels (Oceanites oceanicus) on the Queensland Coast. (1925) (2)
List of Orthopterous Insects recorded from Western Australia (2)
Procellariformes in Western Australia (1)
Visit to Coomooboolaroo (1)
Kittiwake Gull in the Caribbean Sea (1927) (1)
White-winged Black Terns (Chlidonias leucoptera) in Moreton Bay (1925) (1)
Wilson's Phalarope in the South Pacific Ocean (1927) (1)
Procellariiformes in Western Australia. (1)
The White-winged Wrens (1919) (1)
White-backed Swallows (Cheramoeca leucosternum) nesr Brisbane. (1925) (1)
Popular Names for Australian Birds (1933) (1)
White-tailed Black Terns (Hydrochelidon leucoptera) in Western Australia (1918) (1)
White-shafted Fantail pm nest. (1)
The Queensland Black-and-White Petrel (1928) (1)
Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) in Moreton Bay (1925) (0)
Birds Destroyed by Storms (0)
Observations at Bremer Bay (W.A.). (0)
A New Bird for the Australian List (1925) (0)
Down Marlo Way. (1919) (0)
Birds of prey and water-fowl (1951) (0)
Notes on Western Australian lampreys (0)
Sea-birds and waders (1954) (0)
Bold Stone-Curlews (1922) (0)
Eighth International Ornithological Congress (1935) (0)
Crested Penguins in Western Australia (0)
Note on the birds met with on the Swan River by Vlamingh in 1697 (0)
Notes on the Fat-tailed Marsupial Mouse (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) (0)
Australian Birds Occurring in New Guinea (1928) (0)
Results of the R.A.O.U. Excursion to Yeppoon and Byfield. (1925) (0)
Rails, game-birds and larger perching and singing birds (1955) (0)
Further notes on stomatopods (0)
A Ramble in New Zealand (0)
Australian Birds and British Artists (1926) (0)
Variation of the Acclimatised Species of Prickly-pear (Opuntia). (0)
Snow Buntings in the North Atlantic (1927) (0)
White Variety of the Black Moor-Hen (Gallinula tenebrosa) (0)
Generic Name of the Emu (1927) (0)
Notes on Birds Seen on the Murray River, August, 1918 (0)
The Change in Colour of the Bill of the Black Moor-Hen (Gallinula tenebrosa) (0)
Immigration of Rooks from the Continent to England (1933) (0)
The Greater Frigate-bird obtained in Western Australia. (0)
Great Crested (Tippet( Grebes on Port Phillip (0)
Black-shouldered Kites in Eastern Queensland (0)
Further experiments on the cross-breeding of two races of the mothAcidalia virgularia (1913) (0)
Movements of species of Petroica in Queensland. (1932) (0)
New records for south-western Australia. (1915) (0)

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