NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SWAINSON'S WARBLER 



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bier, drawn at least a quarter of a century before this species was described 

 and named by Audubon. On the reverse of the plate is the following auto- 

 graph note by Abbot: L. 6. May 8. Swamp. — Swamp Worm-eater. 



Figure 5. — John Abbot (self portrait), Georgia naturalist who collected a 

 specimen of the Swainson's Warbler about 25 years earlier than Bach- 

 man, but did not report it. His painting of the bird was discovered many 

 years later. Photograph courtesy Oliver H. Hewitt, Cornell University. 



During his first years in Georgia after the Revolutionary War, 

 Abbot lived in the town of Jacksonboro in Screven County. Jack- 

 sonboro, no longer in existence, was located in the Savannah River 

 valley near Sylvania. Abbot did much of his collecting in a swamp 

 along Brier Creek (fig. 7), a tributary of the Savannah. 



