Figure. 2. — Audubon's painting of the Swainson's Warbler, from Bachman's 



type specimen. 



the new bird for his friend the English ornithologist William 

 Swainson, giving it the scientific name Sylvia Swainsonii.^ Audu- 

 bon's painting of the new warbler (fig. 2) appeared in his Birds 

 of America (1834a, plate 198). The description appeared in his 



1 The present generic name. Limnothlypis, meaning marsh finch, is credited to 

 Stone (1914, p. 26). 



