Printed on the plate
“Yellow Red-poll Warbler”
Modern identification
Setophaga palmarum
- Certain
- New World Warblers · Parulidae
Why
Audubon's “Yellow Red-poll Warbler” (Sylvia petechia, Wilson's misapplied name) is the Yellow Palm Warbler, S. p. hypochrysea, a race of today's Palm Warbler; Audubon wrote in 1834 that plate 163 shows the same bird.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
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.
