Yellow Throat Warbler

Yellow Throat Warbler [now Yellow-throated Warbler]
Sylvia pensilis [now Setophaga dominica]
Folio edition, plate 85

“The song of the Yellow-throated Warbler would please you, kind reader. Of this I have not a doubt, as it is soft and loud, and is continued for two or three minutes at a time, not unlike that of the Painted Finch, or Indigo Bird. As it is heard in all parts of our most dismal Cypress Swamps, it contributes to soothe the mind of a person whose occupation may lead him to such places.”

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.], 1831), vol. 1, p. 434.

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