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Griscom was born on June 17, 1890, in New York City, the son of Clement Acton Griscom and Genevieve Sprigg Ludlow.
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Griscom was born on June 17, 1890, in New York City, the son of Clement Acton Griscom and Genevieve Sprigg Ludlow.
Griscom's socially prominent parents were in comfortable circumstances, and the boy received instruction from private tutors until he entered the Symes School at the age of eleven. His parents frequently took him to Europe, and these experiences stimulated his interest in languages. His linguistic ability was unusual; he ultimately spoke five languages fluently, was able to read ten others with ease, and could translate another dozen and a half with the assistance of dictionaries and other aids. Griscom's parents understandably felt that he was destined for the foreign service. He completed his preparatory studies at age fifteen, and passed the entrance examinations for Harvard. Since he was too young to enter college, he remained at home for two years, studying music (principally piano) and languages. His proficiency at the keyboard was such that he considered becoming a concert pianist, but a growing fascination with birds, begun in early childhood, prompted him to reconsider. In the fall of 1907, Griscom entered Columbia University as a prelaw student, but by the time of his graduation in 1912 he had determined on a career in ornithology. He began graduate work in ornithology at Cornell in the fall of 1912, studying under Arthur A. Allen.
Griscom spent several summers teaching ornithology at the University of West Virginia, having declined his father's offer of financial assistance. In 1915 he received the M. S. and remained at Cornell as an instructor in biology for a year, then worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Since no opening was available in the Ornithology Department, Griscom briefly held a position in the Department of Fishes. He entered the Department of Ornithology as an assistant under Frank M. Chapman early in 1917. His duties were interrupted by service as a second lieutenant in Army Intelligence from 1917 to 1919. During part of 1918, Griscom was a delegate to the Second Interallied Propaganda Conference in London. Griscom was made assistant curator of ornithology at the American Museum in 1921. His Birds of the New York City Region (1923) became the standard text on the subject. While a member of the museum staff, Griscom participated in expeditions to Nicaragua (1917), Panama (1924, 1927), and Yucat n (1926). In addition to his expertise in ornithology, he was also an accomplished botanist, and was credited with discovering and naming a number of new species. In 1923 he accompanied the Gray Herbarium expedition to the Gaspé Peninsula as a volunteer botanical assistant, and in 1925 served in the same capacity on a similar expedition to Newfoundland. Griscom's honeymoon in Panama was shared in part with his colleague Maunsell Crosby, since both men were interested in frigate birds, which are resident there. Relations between Griscom and Frank Chapman were not cordial, and Griscom therefore accepted an appointment as research curator in zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in 1927. In 1930 he directed a Harvard-sponsored expedition to Guatemala. Griscom's work in Central America resulted in monographs on the birds of Guatemala (1932) and Panama (1935). A study of the ornithology of Nicaragua remained unpublished at the time of his death. The major work to come out of his travels to the region was Distributional Check List of the Birds of Mexico (1940, 1957). Griscom's other books include Monographic Study of the Red Crossbill (1937), Modern Bird Study (1945), Birds of Nantucket (1948), Birds of the Concord Region (1949), Birds of Massachusetts (1955), and Birds of Martha's Vineyard (1959), written with Guy Emerson. He pioneered in developing techniques of field identification, some of which were later used with great success by Roger Tory Peterson in his field guide series. Griscom had unusually acute sight and hearing, and could readily identify birds by their shape, color pattern, and song. He was greatly interested in local faunistics, and was commonly regarded as the best field identifier of birds in the northeastern states. Difficult problems of identification were generally referred to him by others. As he grew older, he cultivated the idea that he was a character, and he could be brusque to the point of discourtesy. In the last decade of his life Griscom suffered from Buerger's disease, a circulatory disorder. He suffered strokes in 1949 and in 1956. As his condition worsened, he had difficulty speaking, had trouble walking and writing, and could not hold a pair of binoculars. He could still identify birds with ease, though, and found friends to drive him into the field, failing which a hired driver and nurse would accompany him. He died in Cambridge, Massachuseеts, on May 28, 1959.
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Griscom was unusual among museum ornithologists in that he was a tireless and enthusiastic fieldworker.
Griscom also enjoyed duck hunting as a sport. As in other areas, his opinions about managing game birds were moderate. He wrote favorably about game management practices in Great Britain; suggested reducing the issuance of non-resident hunting licenses; and argued for a closed season for ducks for a limited period of time, lest the birds become non-migrant and poor game.
Griscom married Edith Sumner Sloan, a nurse working at one of the Grenfell missions, on September 14, 1926. They had three children.