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Prairie Warbler
Sylvia discolor [now Setophaga discolor]
Folio edition, plate 14
“In Louisiana I found this bird amongst our cotton fields, where it easily procures the small insects and flies of which its food is entirely composed. . . . It is one of the first birds that arrives in spring in Louisiana, and one of the first to depart, being rarely found after the first week of September.â€ÂÂ
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), p. 76.
View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.
