Tundra Swan

Caption on print: Common American Swan

Audubon painted this swan in London in 1838. He wanted the yellow water lillies to be named Nymphea leitnernia after Edward F. Leitner, a German botanist killed by Seminoles in 1838.

"Dr. Leitner also procured some [flamingos] in the course of his botanical excursions along the western coast of the Floridas, where he was at last murdered by some party of Seminole Indians, at the time of our last disastrous war with those children of the desert."

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