4 CuapmMan, In Memoriam: Daniel Giraud Elliot. ae 
For the succeeding ten years, however, his studies were largely 
made and his works published in America. Aside from shorter 
papers, these include a ‘Monograph of the Tetraonide’ (New York, 
1864-1865), an imperial folio with twenty-seven hand-colored 
plates; a ‘Monograph of the Pittidee’ (New York, 1867), an impe- 
rial folio with thirty-one colored plates. The new and heretofore 
unfigured species of the ‘Birds of North America’ (New York, 
1866-1869), in two imperial folio volumes with seventy-two col- 
ored plates, and ‘A Monograph of the Phasianide’ (New York, 
1872) also in two folio volumes with forty-eight colored plates. 
With few exceptions the illustrations for these works were made 
by Dr. Elliot himself, and no expense was spared in their reproduc- 
tion or in the setting of the text, and these monographs were the 
most elaborate publications of the kind which had appeared in 
this country. 
Although the Monograph of the Pheasants was published in this 
country, the studies on which it is based were doubtless largely 
made abroad, and its preparation therefore opens the period of Dr. 
Elliot’s long residence in Europe beginning in 1869, and covering 
most of the period to 1883. 
His work on the Pheasants was soon followed by ‘A Monograph 
of the Paradiseide’ (London, 1873), a folio with thirty-seven colored 
plates, and this in turn by a ‘Monograph of the Bucerotide’ 
(London, 1876-1882), a folio with fifty-nine colored plates; and 
‘A Monograph of the Felide (London, 1883), a folio with sorte 
three colored plates. 
Recognizing his own limitations as an artist, Dr. Elliot secured 
drawings by Wolf and Keulemans for these later works, which 
attained to the high ideal set by the trained taste and excellent 
judgment of their author. 
During this period many shorter papers were published in ‘The 
Ibis,’ “ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ and elsewhere, and in 
1879 ‘A Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilidze,’ a quarto 
memoir of 300 pages, appeared as a “Smithsonian Contribution to 
Knowledge.”’ 
After returning to New York, the years between 1883 And. 1894 
were occupied in preparing the parts relating to the Gallinz, Colum- 
bide and Trochilide for the Standard Natural History, a wholly 
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