Bonaparte Flycatcher (Canada Warbler) Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - Posters and Prints
Wilsonia canadensis, Flora: magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora, Print size: 26 1/4" x 39 1/4"; image size: 11 1/2" x 20" . Princeton Audubon Limited Edition - produced 1985. While Audubon and Joseph Mason were wandering through a Louisiana cypress swamp on August 13, 1821, Audubon shot and wounded what he believed to be a bird of an unknown species. He first gave it the name "Cypress Swamp Fly Catcher," but later renamed it "Bonaparte's Fly-catcher" in honor of Napoleon's nephew Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a naturalist whom Audubon met in Philadelphia in 1824. Actually, the bird is a young female Canada warbler. Audubon's young assistant, Joseph Mason, drew the leaves and ripe seed pod of the southern magnolia. Aptly named, the Canada warbler haunts the undergrowth, shady thickets, and dense woodlands of the north. It is a summer resident in similar terrain in much of New England, New York State, and down the Alleghenies. It is readily identified by its necklace of black pendants on a yellow breast. While it gleans among the leaves in the manner of a warbler, it takes much of its food on the wing like a flycatcher.
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