Allan Robert Phillips

{{Short description|American ornithologist}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Allan Robert Phillips

|birth_date={{Birth date|1914|10|25}}

|birth_place=New York City, US

|death_date={{Death date and age|1996|1|26|1914|10|25}}

|death_place=San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico

|education=PhD from Cornell University in 1946

|occupation=Ornithologist

|spouse=Juana Farfán Bautista de Phillips

|children=3}}

Allan Robert Phillips (October 25, 1914 – January 26, 1996) was an American ornithologist. He mainly studied birds in the southwestern United States and Mexico. His most notable work is The Birds of Arizona, co-authored with Joe Marshall and Gale Monson.{{cite journal|last1=Dickerman|first1=Robert W.|last2=Rea|first2=Amadeo M.|title=In Memoriam: Allan R. Phillips, 1914-1996|journal=The Auk|year=1997|volume=114|issue=3|pages=496–499|url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v114n03/p0496-p0499.pdf|doi=10.2307/4089250|jstor=4089250|access-date=November 30, 2016}}{{cite book|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals|last1=Beolens|first1=Bo|last2=Watkins|first2=Michael|last3=Grayson|first3=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&q=321&pg=PA321|page=321|isbn=9780801895333|publisher=JHU Press|date=2009|access-date=November 30, 2016}}{{cite book|title=The Era of Allan R. Phillips: A Festschrift|edition=First|chapter=The ornithological contributions of Allan R. Phillips|chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240256314|last=Hubbard|first=John P.|publisher=Horizon Communications, Albuquerque, NM|pages=9–20|access-date=December 2, 2016}}