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JACOB POST GIRAUD, JR., AND HIS WORKS. 



BY WITMER STONE. 



Plate XVIII. 



It has always seemed to the writer a duty of present-day orni- 

 thologists to save from oblivion as many of the facts as possible 

 concerning the lives of those who long ago laid the foundations 

 of our science, and he has accordingly from time to time prepared 

 biographical sketches of some of the older American ornithologists, 

 concerning whom little or no record has appeared in our published 

 literature. 



With the object of furthering this work Mr. William Dutcher, 

 at the meeting of the Council of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union in New York City, in November, 1918, submitted to him 

 some memoranda that he had collected relative to the life of J. P. 

 Giraud, Jr., the pioneer writer on the birds of Long Island, a field 

 in which Mr. Dutcher himself is a notable authority and a worthy 

 successor to Giraud. A photograph of the ornithologist was also 

 loaned for reproduction and forms the basis of the plate which 

 accompanies the present sketch. 



Finding that there were several gaps in Mr. Dutcher's notes, 

 the preparation of the sketch has been delayed until search might 

 be made for the missing information, and in this connection the 

 writer is under great obligations to Dr. George Bird Grinnell and 

 Dr. T. S. Palmer. Indeed, he feels that his part in the preparation 

 of the sketch has been simply that of arranging and editing the 

 materials that these gentlemen and Mr. Dutcher have brought 

 together. 



Jacob Post Giraud, Jr., was born in New York City on August 

 22, 1811. His father presumably bore the same name, as in the 

 older city directories there are listed Jacob P. Giraud and Jacob 

 P., Jr., and as time went on the younger man occupied the same 

 residence at No. 4 West 13th Street that was formerly the home 

 of the elder. One of Giraud's brothers was the grandfather of the 

 late Daniel Giraud Elliot, while another brother, Daniel Giraud, 



