Jean-Baptiste Bailly

Jean-Baptiste Bailly was a French ornithologist.
Bailly was one of the founders of the Société d’histoire naturelle de Savoie in 1844 and of the Museum of Natural History in Chambéry where he was the Conservator. In 1848 he was given permission by Charles Albert of Sardinia to collect bird specimens in Savoy an authorization later renewed by Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. In 1853-1854 he published Ornithology of Savoy. This was supplemented in 1855-1856 by an atlas of 110 plates.