Printed on the plate
“Double-crested Cormorant”
Male adult spring plumage.
Modern identification
Nannopterum auritum
- Certain
- Cormorants and Shags · Phalacrocoracidae
Why
Audubon's “Double-crested Cormorant” is today's Double-crested Cormorant, Nannopterum auritum; its Florida race is plate 252.
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. 1835.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
