Printed on the plate
“American Snipe”
Male 1. Female 2, 3. | South Carolina Plantation near Charleston.
Modern identification
Gallinago delicata
- Certain
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Audubon's “American Snipe” is today's Wilson's Snipe
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. London, 1835.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
