Printed on the plate
“Uria Brunnichi”
Modern identification
Uria lomvia
- Certain
- Auks, Murres, and Puffins · Alcidae
Why
Plate 245 is lettered only “Uria Brunnichii”: Brünnich's Guillemot, Audubon's “Large-billed Guillemot” in the text, today's Thick-billed Murre
Sources
engraved legend; Audubon, Ornithological Biography iii (1835); 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
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