Printed on the plate
“Yellow-breasted Chat”
Males, 1. Female, 2. | Sweet Briar. Rosa rubiginosa.
Modern identification
Icteria virens
- Certain
- Yellow-breasted Chat · Icteriidae
Why
Audubon's “Yellow-breasted Chat” (Icteria viridis) is today's Yellow-breasted Chat, Icteria virens; viridis is a synonym of virens.
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, 1832.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
