Tennessee Warbler

Tennessee Warbler
Sylvia peregrina [now Leiothlypis peregrina]
Folio edition, plate 154

“So very rare does this little bird seem to be in the United States, that in the course of all my rambles I never saw more than three individuals of the species. The first was procured near Bayou Sara, in the State of Louisiana, in the spring of 1821, when I drew it with the holly twig on which it was standing when I shot it.”

John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, (Edinburgh: A. Black [et al.], 1834), v. 2, p. 307.

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