THE AUK: 
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 
ORNITHOLOGY. 
Von <x x1Vv. JANUARY, 1917. No: 2. 
DANIEL GIRAUD ELLIOT. 
BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN. 
Plate I. 
DanrEL Grraup Extiot, A Founder of the American Orni- 
thologists’ Union, and its second President, died in New York 
City on December 22, 1915, in the eighty-first year of his age, 
from pneumonia after a short illness. 
Dr. Elliot was born on March 7, 1835, in the city where he began 
and ended his career as a naturalist. He was the fourth son of 
George T. and Rebecca Giraud Elliot. His paternal ancestors 
were English and settled near New London, Connecticut, early in 
the 17th century. On his mother’s side he was descended from 
French ancestors who settled at New Rochelle, New York, and 
moved to New York City some two centuries ago. He was mar- 
ried in 1858 to Ann Eliza Henderson, by whom he had two 
daughters, of whom but one, Margaret Henderson Elliot, is living. 
Dr. Elliot prepared to enter Columbia College in 1852, but deli- 
cate health forced him to abandon a college course to seek climatic 
change. Thus was inaugurated a series of travels which either for 
the purposes of health, recreation, field exploration or museum 
research, led Dr. Elliot over a large part of the earth’s surface. 
The experience, specimens and data thereby acquired supplied 
the material on which his works were based, and we may begin our 
