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Children's Warbler

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Children’s Warbler [now Yellow Warbler]
Silvia childreni [now Setophaga petechia]
Folio edition, plate 35

This bird is actually a Yellow Warbler, which Audubon portrayed and identified in plate 95 as Yellow-poll Warbler. Thinking he had a new species, he named it after his friend John George Children, an influential member of the Royal Society of London, one-time librarian at the British Museum, and the editor of two scientific journals. 

Susanne M. Low, An Index and Guide to Audubon’s Birds of America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), p. 47.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.

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