Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 175

Sedge Wren

Printed “Nuttall's lesser-marsh Wren”

Plate 175 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Sedge Wren (Cistothorus stellaris)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Nuttall's lesser-marsh Wren”

Male, 1. Female, 2.

Modern identification

Sedge Wren

Cistothorus stellaris

  • Certain
  • Wrens · Troglodytidae

Why

Audubon's “Nuttall's lesser-marsh Wren” is today's Sedge Wren

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, 1833.

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