Printed on the plate
“Fork-tail Petrel”
Male 1. Female 2.
Modern identification
Hydrobates leucorhous
- Certain
- Northern Storm-Petrels · Hydrobatidae
Why
Audubon's “Forked-tailed Petrel” (Thalassidroma leachii) is today's Leach's Storm-Petrel; audubon.org titles it “Fork-tail Petrel”.
Sources
engraved title; Featherframe havell.yaml; 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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