NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SWAINSON'S WARBLER 



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Figure 3. — The arrow-designated circle in South Carolina marks Bachman*s 

 type locality; that in Georgia marks the approximate locality where Abbot 

 collected specimens some 25 years before Bachman. 



Ornithological Biography (Audubon, 1834b, p. 564-565). The 

 type specimen was given to the U.S. National Museum by Spencer 

 F. Baird, one-time Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who 

 acquired it from Audubon. 



The discovery of this new species by Bachman, some 25 miles 

 south of Charleston, is described as follows (in Audubon 1834b, 

 p. 564) : 



I was first attracted by the novelty of its notes, four or five in number, 

 repeated at intervals of five or six minutes apart. These notes were loud, 

 clear, and more like a whistle than a song. They resembled the sounds of 

 some extraordinary ventriloquist in such a degree, that I supposed the bird 

 much farther from me than it really was; for after some trouble caused by 

 these fictitious notes, I perceived it near me and soon shot it. 



Bachman collected five specimens in the spring of 1832 or 1833. 

 The type locality apparently is in the vicinity of Jacksonboro and 

 Parker's Ferry Landing, S.C. (figs. 3 and 4). Audubon reported 



