From Audubon's Birds of America, IV: the Scarlet Tanager
John James Audubon, 1785-1851, and Maria Martin "Louisiana Tanager; Scarlet Tanager," plate 354, from his Birds of America, no. 71 (London: Havell, 1837).--the scale of Audubon's project meant that for some specimens he had to rely on other collectors. The two Louisiana (or western) tanagers here were supplied by a Dr. Townsend. Audubon painted these specimens in Charleston in the winter of 1836-37. The plant on which they are perched, the red bay, was painted by Maria Martin.
