Printed on the plate
“Wood Pewee”
Male. | Swamp Honeysuckle. Azalea viscosa.
Modern identification
Contopus virens
- Certain
- Tyrant Flycatchers · Tyrannidae
Why
Audubon's “Wood Pewee” is today's Eastern Wood-Pewee
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved. Printed & Coloured by R. Havell London_1831.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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