Printed on the plate
“Wood Wren”
Modern identification
Troglodytes aedon
- Certain
- Wrens · Troglodytidae
Why
Audubon's “Wood Wren” (Troglodytes americana), which he named as a species, is today's Northern House Wren: its type, from Eastport, Maine, is in the eastern nominate race (Ridgway 1904). Its main plate is 83.
Sources
Wikimedia Commons; Wikispecies (synonymy of Troglodytes aedon)
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon, F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, 1833.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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