Printed on the plate
“Hooping Crane”
Young. | the Interior of the Floridas with sand Hills in t
Modern identification
Antigone canadensis
- Certain
- Cranes · Gruidae
Why
Audubon's “Hooping Crane, young” (Grus americana) is a Sandhill Crane: he took the grey Sandhill for the young of the Whooping Crane, whose adult is plate 226.
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.
