Printed on the plate
“Scaup Duck”
1 Male 2 Female
Modern identification
Aythya affinis
- Certain
- Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl · Anatidae
Why
Audubon's “Scaup Duck” (Fuligula marila) is a Lesser Scaup: in 1844 Audubon wrote that the bird described in his Ornithological Biography and figured in his large plates was the smaller scaup, Vigors's Fuligula mariloides, and Baird, Brewer and Ridgway list plate 229 under the Lesser Scaup. audubon.org agrees
Sources
Audubon, Birds of America 8vo vi (1843) and vii (1844); Baird, Brewer & Ridgway, Water Birds of North America ii (1884); audubon.org; the plate
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed, & Coloured by R. Havell, 1834.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
