Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 23

Common Yellowthroat

Printed “Yellow-breasted Warbler”

Plate 23 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Yellow-breasted Warbler”

Male, 1. Female, 2. | 1. Snow-drop Tree, Halesia tetraptera. 2. Bitter-wood Tree, Viburnum prunifolium.

The printed name is now eBird's name for another bird: Yellow-breasted Warbler.

Modern identification

Common Yellowthroat

Geothlypis trichas

  • Certain
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Yellow-breasted Warbler” is today's Common Yellowthroat

Sources

Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature and Published by John 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.

The same bird on other plates