Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 170

Gray Kingbird

Printed “Piping Flycatcher”

Plate 170 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Piping Flycatcher”

Agati grandiflora.

Modern identification

Gray Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis

  • Certain
  • Tyrant Flycatchers · Tyrannidae

Why

Audubon's “Pipiry Flycatcher” (Muscicapa dominicensis) is today's Gray Kingbird; audubon.org titles it “Piping Flycatcher”.

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, 1833.

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