Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 200

Horned Lark

Printed “Shore Lark”

Plate 200 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Shore Lark”

Male adult Summer plumage, 1. F. 2. Male Winter plumage, 3. Young, 4. 5. 6.

Modern identification

Horned Lark

Eremophila alpestris

  • Certain
  • Larks · Alaudidae

Why

Audubon's “Shore Lark” is today's Horned Lark

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.

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

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