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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA 69 



Figure 4. — The Edisto River near Jacksonboro in South Carolina, where 

 Bachman collected the type specimen of the Swainson's Warbler. 



that the type specimen was collected in 1832, the year that he was 

 on an expedition to Labrador. However, Arthur T. Wayne (1906, 

 p. 227), Charleston ornithologist of the late 1800's and early 

 1900's, pointed out that since Audubon was in Labrador in 1833 

 and not 1832 the type specimen must have been collected in 1833. 



While John Bachman gets the credit for the discovery of the 

 Swainson's Warbler, John Abbot (fig. 5), a Georgia naturalist, 

 apparently collected a specimen some 25 years earlier but made no 

 public record of the event. However, he made an identifiable 

 portrait of the bird (ng. 6). Many of Abbot's Georgia bird paint- 

 ings were deposited in the British Museum and the Boston Society 

 of Natural History. Those, including the Swainson's Warbler, 

 deposited in the latter place now repose in the Fogg Art Museum, 

 Harvard University. Walter Faxon (1896, p. 207), one of the 

 first persons to study Abbot's paintings, made the following re- 

 marks about the painting of the Swainson's Warbler : 



On looking through the Abbot bird-portraits several arrest the eye from 

 their historic interest. Plate 68 is a good representation of Swainson's War- 



