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Swainson|ˈsweɪnsən|
The name of William Swainson (1789–1855), English naturalist, used in the possessive to designate birds named in his honour, as Swainson's † buzzard, hawk, a dark-coloured buzzard hawk, Buteo swainsoni, found in western North America; Swainson's thrush, an olive-backed thrush, Hylocichla ustulata, found in western North America; Swainson's warbler, a brown and white warbler, Limnothlypis swainsonii, found in swamp regions of south-eastern North America.
1858S. F. Baird Birds Pacific Railway Routes 19 Swainson's Buzzard,..more nearly related to a generic form of the Old World. Ibid. 252 Swainson's Warbler..South Atlantic States. 1869Amer. Naturalist III. 31 Swainson's Thrush... Common at Cœur d'Aleñe Mission. 1895U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1894 222 The food of Swainson's hawk..is of much the same character as that of the two preceding species. 1912C. A. Reed Birds Eastern N. Amer. 359 Swainson's Warbler is a comparatively rare species found in the Southeastern States. 1939F. C. Lincoln Migration Amer. Birds 79 Observers in the Great Plains saw large flocks of Red-tailed Hawks, Swainson's Hawks and Rough-legged Hawks wheeling majestically. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 21 May 6/2 In the evening the sound of the Swainson's thrush. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 31 July 5/2 Southern Swainson's warblers would no doubt agree. 1980Country Life 3 July 46/2, I watched huge flocks of broad-winged hawks..and a few Swainson's hawks. |