Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 153

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Printed “Yellow-crown Warbler”

Plate 153 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Yellow-crown Warbler”

Male, 1. Young, 2. | Iris versicolor.

Modern identification

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Setophaga coronata

  • Certain
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Yellow rump Warbler” (Sylvia coronata) is today's Yellow-rumped Warbler; audubon.org titles it “Yellow-crown Warbler”.

Sources

engraved title; Featherframe havell.yaml; 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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates