Vermivora virginiae
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1858
name: label: Collector
content: W. W. Anderson
notes: label: Notes
content: From: Jacobs, Louis Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2023 4:42 PM To: Milensky, Christopher Subject: SMU - "Virginia's Warbler" External Email - Exercise Caution Dear Christopher Milensky, I do not believe we have met. I am a vertebrate paleontologist, but the subject of this email is Virginia's Warbler, collected at Fort Burgwin, New Mexico, and named by Spencer F. Baird after the wife of the collector W.W. Anderson. My colleague Scott Wendorf and I will be at the USNM on September 27 to show a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow through the exhibition called Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angola's Ancient Seas in the Sant Hall of Ocean Life. The exhibit is based on my group's work, and when it comes down in DC, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibitions Service (SITES) will travel it for three years until it goes back to Angola permanently. The Director of SITES Myriam Springuel and the Assistant Director Bob Leipold were in Dallas recently and my colleague Scott began speaking with them about Virginia's Warbler and Fort Burgwin. Scott is a lawyer by trade and he is in the beginning stages of writing a manuscript on Fort Burgwin, its people, and the specimens sent to Spencer F. Baird. Because we were to come to the USNM on September 27, we thought we would try to get a look at the type specimen of Virginia's Warbler. It would not take long. We would like to see the specimen in its USNM home, see its specimen card, and take a photo. That is a very important early step for Scott. I am writing to you because Scott and I will be there together to show the exhibit, I was writing Smithsonian people anyway, and so I volunteered to make the request. We have printed out your procedures and we have read them. Our appointment in the exhibit is at 4:00 PM. If you approve, we could come to ornithology at the time most convenient for you between 8 and about 3:30. I don't think we would spend very long in the collection. Scott needs to get the lay of the land for further work on Spencer Baird and the Fort Burgwin specimens sent to him. Scott's full story as he wrote it to the SITES people is in the email below and the story of W.W. Anderson is attached. Thank you for your consideration. Yours sincerely, Louis Louis L. Jacobs Professor Emeritus
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cantonment Burgwyn, Taos, New Mexico, United States, North America
setName: label: See more items in
content: Vertebrate Zoology
label: See more items in
content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Vermivora virginiae
label: Published Name
content: Helminthophaga virginiae Baird in Baird et al.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: A10719
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Baird, S. F., Cassin, J., et al. 1860. The birds of North America : the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Atlas. pl. 79, fig. 1.
label: Type Status
content: Type
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Passeriformes, Parulidae
physicalDescription: label: Preparation
content: Skin: Whole
label: Sex
content: Male
label: Stage
content: Adult