Printed on the plate
“Florida Cormorant”
Modern identification
Nannopterum auritum
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Audubon's “Florida Cormorant” (Carbo floridanus, Florida Keys) is the Florida race of today's Double-crested Cormorant, N. a. floridanus, which he named from these birds; its main plate is 257.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
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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