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Elliot, Daniel Giraud 1835-1915
birth: March 7, 1835
death: December 22, 1915
Zoologist, artist, ornithologist
His collection of birds, consisting of some one thousand specimens, and covering most of the described species in North America, was the best private collection extant, and was secured by the AMNH in 1869