Printed on the plate
“Common Gallinule”
Male Adult.
Modern identification
Gallinula galeata
- Certain
- Rails, Gallinules, and Coots · Rallidae
Why
Audubon's “Common Gallinule” (Gallinula chloropus) is today's Common Gallinule, G. galeata: eBird splits the American bird from the Old World Eurasian Moorhen, which keeps chloropus.
Sources
Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature, by J. J. Aubudon. 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.
