- Andrew Jackson Grayson
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name = Andrew Jackson Grayson
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birth_date = 1819
birth_place =Grayson, Louisiana
death_date = 1869
death_place =Isabel Islands ,Mexico
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footnotes =Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819 - 1869) was an American
ornithologist and artist.Grayson was the author of "Birds of the Pacific Slope" (1853-69), which he considered to be a completion of
John James Audubon 's "Birds of America". Grayson was born August 20, 1819, in the northwest corner of Louisiana, on theOuachita River, where his father had a cotton plantation.Taxa named after Grayson
Two bird
species and several othertaxa have been named in honor of Grayson. They are mainly from theRevillagigedo Islands and other islands offshorePacific Mexico . As with much islandfauna , several areendangered orextinct :Birds:
* "Micrathene whitneyi graysoni" - SocorroElf Owl (probablyextinct since c.1970)
* "Mimus graysoni " - Socorro Mockingbird (Critically endangered )
* "Parula pitiayumi graysoni" - SocorroTropical Parula
* "Zenaida graysoni " - Socorro Dove (Extinct in the wild )Other:
* "Cambarus graysoni " - aCambaridae crayfish
* "Ochrotrichia graysoni " - aHydroptilidae caddisfly
* "Sylvilagus graysoni " - Tres Marias Cottontail Rabbit (Endangered )
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