Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 155

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Plate 155 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Black-throated Blue Warbler”

Male. | Canadian Columbine. Aquilegia canadensis.

Modern identification

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Setophaga caerulescens

  • Certain
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Black-throated Blue Warbler” (Sylvia canadensis) is today's Black-throated Blue Warbler, Setophaga caerulescens. The female is plate 148.

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.

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

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