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 the Ouachita River, where his father had a cotton plantation.
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